The deputy director of CID (A23) in charge of fraud William Kototyo has rejected calls from police chief Gen Kale Kayihura to leave office after reaching mandatory retirement age of 60 years.
TrumpetNews can reliably report that as you read this story, Kototyo is sitting in his desk at the Crime Investigations Department (CID) at Kibuli, a suburb of Kampala.
“His presence is causing anxiety among the police officers and he is setting a bad precedence to the upcoming officers. If such experienced, trained and highly respected officer can defy his boss what do you expect his juniors to do?” a source who sits at CID wondered.
Kototyo is famously known for mishandling the Red Cross Society case in which its former director Richard Nataka was accused of corruption in 2013.
Reports emerged that Kototyo pocked over shs 100M as bribe to suffocate investigations, whereas his juniors insisted on investigating Nataka, they were threatened.
He first received a letter from the Human Resource Department asking him to handover office and government property in his possession as required by the law last year but he gave it a deaf ear and continued to run his operations normally.
This prompted IGP Kayihura to formally write to him in January reminding him that his time of services had ended.
Reports further indicate that the ageing officer had used his contacts in Public Service to renew his contract though his retirement had matured on August 8th 2016.
“Records available in your file indicate that you were born on 8th August 1956. This means that you clocked the mandatory retirement age of 60 years on 8th August 2016,” Kayihura stated in his January letter to Kototyo.
5 months down the road Kototyo is executing his duties without interruptions.
When this website contacted police spokesman Asan Kasingye for a comment he expressed shock saying, “that old man retired last year.”
When that Kototyo reminded until today is still serving in the force, Kasigye wondered.
“I know he clocked retirement age and should be out of office,” he added.
Kasigye promised to ask relevant authorities about Kototyo’s case and revert to us but he hadn’t by the time of filing this report.
Currently, the public has subjected the police into criticism after it emerged that a few elements were liaising with criminals to dent the image of the force. This prompted Kayihura who is under immense pressure to drop, transfer and redeploy these individuals.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni not long ago acknowledged that police had been infiltrated by criminal gangs thus ordering Kayihura to do the needful.
