Henry Katanga, a very little-known affluent city businessman was murdered hours before he appended his signature on a WILL he had made seven days earlier and hid it in a safe box inside his office.
Known by his peers as a man of few words but with deep pockets, Katanga had a week ago prepared the necessary paperwork encompassing all his wealth and had only told two people about the secret; his sister Naome Nyangweso and his lawyer.
Katanga had also warned his sister with whom he reached out to using a different phone which he too, would lock inside the safe box in his office to be mindful of evil-minded individuals that were trailing both of them.
The last time he met his sister- the only surviving children out of 9- was in a special hire cab saying he was being followed by the bad people.
Unfortunately, Katanga never revealed who the bad people were.
His relatives who have come out full scale to speak about his death maintain that had he opened-up, Katanga would not be killed.
He was shot on a morning of November 2, inside his bedroom after an altercation with his wife Molly Katanga, an equally filthy rich woman he worked with at their procurement and supplies firm- MERGE.
The two had penetrated the system and would transact with government agencies that wield classified budgets.
At a time of his death, an insider in the family on condition of anonymity revealed to this website that Katanga had clinched a transaction of shs 16 billion.
“Besides working with Molly, he had other different lines of making his own money including money lending. He had so far gotten shs 16 billion,” said an insider.
This website has not independently verify this account from the insider.
We have further learnt that Katanga had been taking care of a number of orphans of his dead siblings and loved them as his own children including the two children of his sister Naome; Timothy Nyangweso and Marjolie Nyangweso.
Relatives highly anticipate that Katanga was planning to distribute all his property equally in a WILL among his biological children and other orphans which could have annoyed whoever pulled the trigger to end his life 22 days ago.
“The plan was to kill him that very day because there was no time to wait since he was planning to leave home and sign the papers,” another relative said.
Naome Nyangweso told mourners during the burial that on the tragic morning he telephoned the lawyer (who remains unnamed) that Katanga had been killed.
The lawyer responded saying he knew because, according to Katanga’s revelations to the attorney, he was walking in the jaws of death, that is why he was racing against time to finish a will.
Katanga could have prepared and signed the will a little earlier, but he was holed up in arrangements for giveaway and wedding functions for his foster daughter Patricia alias Tricia for over two weeks.
Tricia is among the suspects, and she was remanded to Luzira prison on murder charges.
At the time of the shooting, Tricia confirmed to Police that she was present and revealed how her father and mother got a misunderstanding before she heard a gunshot.
Katanga’s murder remains complex. Molly is still at IHK, her son Arthur Katanga is defending his mother with tooth and nail after releasing disturbing pictures revealing injuries she allegedly obtained during the scuffle with the father.
As earlier reported, TrumpetNews will stay on course of pursuing the truth, how Katanga was shot and who is responsible.
