Missing Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Jonathan Baroza has for long not been in touch with his family members back in Uganda, Trumpetnews has established.
Speaking to one of his relatives who wished not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter on Saturday afternoon said that they lost communication with their brother the day Gen Kale Kayihura was arrested together with other top police commanders he closely worked with at the time he was at the helm of the police institution.
Baroza worked as Kayihura’s personal assistant until 2017 when he was dispatched to Algeria as Uganda’s liaison officer at AFRIPOL following the death of his colleague AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi.
Ever since many senior police officers allied to Gen Kayihura who is a military detention at Makindye Barracks have been linked to Kaweesi’s assassination.
On the fateful day, a police officer attached to Baroza’s office was allegedly arrested for picking soil samples from the crime scene to jeopardize investigations.
Whereas all the senior police officers connected to Kaweesi’s death have been in military detention, it is only Baroza who remains at large.
The new police leadership under Martin Okoth Ochola summoned him for ‘urgent business’ in Kampala, but he would later disappear from Turkish Airport on his way to Uganda.
This happened after he learnt of his imminent arrest as soon he reached Entebbe Airport.
Whereas his current location has been a subject of debate, a local online publication Chimpreports last Thursday ran a story revealing that Baroza has since sought asylum in Sweden.
The website quoted Baroza speaking about the pre- and post events on March 17, 2017, the day Kaweesi was shot dead in Kulambiro as he left home for duty.
But his family told TrumpetNews that they lost communication with Baroza ever since his colleagues were arrested.
They are accused of killing Kaweesi.
“We don’t know where he is. Even his phone went off the day they arrested Kayihura and other officers,” said a relative.
This relative also wondered what channel Baroza used to communicate to the local website.
“We don’t even know whether he is in Sweden,” the relative added.
This website understands that Baroza had struck a deal with the military to testify against Kayihura only to learn that he would be incarcerated.