FOUR HELD FOR KILLING SPECIAL HIRE DIRVER IN KASESE

Police in Kasese are holding four people for allegedly participating in the killing of Miro Kizito a special hire driver who went missing two months ago.
The Deputy Director of the Criminal Investigations Department at police headquarters Mr. Joel Aguma said the four have been picked from different districts in regard to how they participated in the saga around the death of Kizito.
After a long time search for Kizito who went missing on May 8th after being hired to take people to Kamwenge, his body was week found in a bridge in River Mbanga in Fort Portal.
Mr. Aguma said the suspects should have killed him with a hitting by a hammer after tying him with a rope.
He identified the suspects as Sembatya 47, from Mbondwe-Lubiriha town council, Ibra Atwine 24, Gad Turyatemba 47, and Johnson Makao 27 all from Kamwenge district.
The police chief said Makao used his phone to send money on mobile money to the deceased to buy fuel to drive to Kamwenge, Turyatemba bought the hammer and rope that were used where as Atwine was found to have used Kizito’s phone after disappearance.
Mr. Aguma told a press conference in Kasese that after the arrest, the four led the police to the bridge where the decomposing body was found.
Aguma who took on the case after it was abandoned by Kasese Police said they have been charged with robbery and murder and will be produced in court for prosecution.
“ I decided to take over this case because it had stalled and the public especially friends and family of the deceased were losing confidence in the police. I am going to take on any other abandoned case in Kasese to check the increasing crime rate here” Mr. Aguma said.
He said they had planned to sell the stolen Toyota premio car registration number UAM 018M to a dealer across the borders.
The deputy CID boss also revealed he is taking over two more cases that have been in the minds of the people of Kasese-that of Mr. Felix Mugyema the Kilembe Mines Hospital superintendent who went missing in May on official duties in Kampala.
But the Mines management revealed someone dad seen him boarding a bus to Kasese in Kampala before he disappeared.
Another case to be taken on by Mr. Aguma is the sudden shooting of independent Journalist Mr. Amon Thembo Wamupaghasya. He was shot on his way home from viedographing a wedding party in Mpondwe-Lubiriha town council.
The RDC Kasese Lt. Milton Odongo said that the police in the district are failing investigations into serious crimes because they always release suspects easily.
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