Police flying squad detective Patrick Segujja who became the lead investigator in the murder of Wilberforce Wamala fled the country in 2013 to Zambia, fearing for his life TrumpetNews reliably reports.
Segujja was a highly skilled police tracker who pursued the prime suspect Hakim Ssali, a resident of Gomba in Mpigi district and later arrested him Sembabule.
Ssali, was shamba boy at the late Wamala’s residence in Mutungo, a high end Kampala suburb. The little known but affluent businessman confessed to detective Segujja that indeed he had participated in the assassination of the tycoon.
“He confessed to us that the people who had sent him were his ex wife Jolly Kasande and his personal driver,” one of the detectives who was on the support team told this website.
This detective Sergeant Enock Twesigye attached to Teza police station on Mityana road under Mpigi district police command is currently incarcerated at Kira road police station over a related case of suspect Ssali who was found dead in the cells in Bukasa 4 years ago.
This website managed to talk to Twesigye who said that he was arrested from Teza on March 18, a day after the tragic shooting of AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi together with his bodyguard and driver at Kulambiro near his residence.
Twesigye was initially detained at Mpigi Police Station where he met with officials from Police’s Professional Standards Unit (PSU).
Twesigye was later transferred to PSU Headquarters in Bukoto where he was questioned about Ssali’s death.
Twesigye being a detective, got involved in the Wamala murder probe after rendering support to lead detective Segujja. “Because I am good in tracking rogues and criminals on the run, my supervisor in Butambala in 2013 asked me to help these officers from flying squad to track Ssali.”
Segujja and Twesigye would later become a team and successfully apprehended Ssali.
Ssali’s death while in cells turned out to be suicidal but would later be pronounced as murder by the police pathologist Silvester Onzivuwa who exhumed the body on orders of Makindye Magistrates Court and a fresh post-mortem carried out. All this happened 4 years ago
A minor who shared a same cell with Ssali testified before Makindye Grade One Magistrate George Watyekere on June 10, 2015, that Ssali was possibly murdered.
“I was detained at Bukasa police post for theft. I was in the cells with four people when Hassan was brought in under critical condition. He was bleeding profusely and he was being held by someone who was granted police bond hours later,” the boy narrated.
Enock Twesigye who says fellow officers told him that his arrest was sanctioned by police chief Kale Kayihura confirmed to this website that indeed top police officials were interested in the case.
“That’s why Patrick Segujja who had become my boss fled the country in 2013 after receiving death threats from these officers,” he said.
One of the high ranking officers cited in this case was the late Andrew Kaweesi who before his death had vehemently denied the killing allegations.
When we contacted the Police Spokesman for a comment on the whereabouts of detective Segujja, AIGP Asan Kasingye didnt pick our repeated calls.
His deputy Polly Namaye referred us to Vincent Ssekate, the CID spokesman who denied any knowledge of Segujja.
“I don’t know the said Twesigye,” he said on phone.
An online news site The Investigator published a series of articles linking the Kaweesi and other top police administrators to this murder.
Some reports suggest that it is Wamala’s murder that could have sparked off the brutal assassination of the former police publicist.
Sgt Twesigye whose fate remains unknown wonders why his arrest came a day after Kaweesi’s death.
Kaweesi’s untimely demise has exposed police institution as very rotten and engulfed by criminals in uniform.
Opposition kingpin Col Kizza Besigye has at all times referred to this establishment as “criminal police.”
President Yoweri Kaguta two months ago also admitted that police is full of criminals and he directed Kayihura to clean house.
Whereas the IGP made massive reshuffles, he has failed to punish the bad cops even when the public has come out to name them, but rather gives them more powers to execute sensitive projects.
Nalufenya a police detention facility under Flying Squad unit commanded by Herbert Muhangi has drawn ire among government officials, security kingpins and members of the public with human rights bodies decrying the inhumane manner of torture meted on suspects.
