All the ‘Desh Kananura’ police officers at Kiira police station should be suspended (if possible expelled from the force)

The Desh Kananura story in the Mwenda’s ‘Independent’ is embarrassing to the police, and I’m wondering what the IGG is thinking about it. It is unfortunate that the IGG is being mentioned in this report that he is a good friend of Desh and may be this is the reason why he is quiet about this murder case.
All the police officers at Kiira police station should be suspended (if possible expelled from the force). That is not a police station anymore going by what I have listened to on capital fm. That is why we want independent review boards of police activities so that they cannot work for the will of only a single individual or work with impunity. Impunity policy for torture should be stopped. Perpetrators of torture should not be protected as has been reportedly the case at this so called bar.
The biggest problem is getting the IGG and police to admit there is a problem. Once that is breached, we can work together, citizens and police, to clean up the system and get the punks out of the force so that we can go back to loving and respecting our “peace officers”, as we were raised to do.
Here is my theory on Desh’s fate after the murder of Abdu Katerega: if he knows so much about the security dealings of the government (as it has been reported in this story in the Independent- that he used to kill Ugandans on behalf of the govt), then this constant media exposition of this murder is not good for him. Normally, governments find ways of silently ‘eliminating’ people like Desh in order to save face for everyone connected to him, especially if the story has refused to go away.
But if Desh appears in court soon, it will mean a few things:
1. Someone has given him assurances that everything will be OK and they will find ways of ‘killing’ the case’;
2. Someone has given him assurances that everything will be OK because they want to blow his cover, get him out of hiding, and then find an alternative safer way of eliminating him while in prison. Remember the case of that Austrian doctor, Dr. Kiyingi, who was accused of killing his wife a few years ago, where the main witness who would have put this doctor away in prison, was allegedly ‘eliminated’ while in Luzira prison. So, the doctor won the case.
3. Someone has assured him that all the witnesses in this case will be ‘compensated’ fully to buy their silence. Yes, it happens all over the world. So, don’t be surprised if all the people that have helped Andrew Mwenda and his Independent team to come out with such a good story lose their lips if taken to court to give their testimonies against Desh. It is also very obvious that Mwenda also run this story because he has some beef to settle with Desh, but this may turn out to help others too inishallah. Mwenda should have left this out in his reporting but he didn’t, which makes the story look a bit personal but who cares, as long as justice is done! I’m really happy that Andrew Mwenda exposed Desh to the public. I hope the Daily Monitor and Observer also do the same.
For now, Desh is out of the public eye as he is reportedly hiding in the UK, and it is so likely that he is being protected by someone with real power. Remember that Arinaitwe guy who spread tear gas in Besigye’s eyes during the ‘walk to work’. He was kept out of the public because tempers were still high, such that up to now, I don’t think people know where he is. Yes, a government is capable of protecting someone this way especially until the public loses interest in the whole thing.
Some people misuse the power they have got and the Kananura brothers seem to have done that according to the ‘Independent’. Mr.Andrew Mwenda is reportedly the most powerful and well connected journalist in Uganda and I think this time he is using the power he has got in a positive way. I have been listening to the audio clips on his ‘Independent’ website; it looks like he has taken a personal interest in this case. Most of the former employees of the bar were interviewed on radio though such evidence is not submersible in courts of law. But he has reportedly managed to persuade the IGG to put a lot of energy in this case, and this can only be a good thing for the family of the victim who are so poor.
I’m really hoping that Mr. Mwenda and IGG do the same in case one of us finds oneself on the other side of the fence.
By the way, why is this Panarema bar in a residential area? Naguru, where the bar is located, is a residential area with a commercial overlay but KCC’s Jeniffer Musisi also apparently ignored complaints from residents about this problem, yet we have been told several times that she doesn’t do impunity. Well, she does now?
I don’t know about you but I feel like I could easily die like a cockroach while in my country and nobody gives a damn about it. It looks like murder is something that is normal in Uganda and this is sad. Very sad! How can somebody be killed at a bar because of a mere shs.30,000, and the police come just to collect the body without interviewing the owner( who was present at the time) or stopping him from making any travel arrangements? It is so ridiculous. It looks like a movie somewhere in Sub Sahara Republic!
The good news is that it looks like Desh stepped on a lot of powerful toes, and I believe the past is catching up with him. By the way, according to Mwenda, Colonel Muhoozi is denying any links to Desh. He also denies giving any gun to Desh, and I guess we need to start believing him. May be, he is also tired of impunity and people fast tracking their success using dodgy means!