Interpol to probe Muzoora death
Jun 01, 2011
THE Police are to enlist the support of the International Police (Interpol) to investigate the mystery surrounding the murder of Col. Edson Muzoora.
By STEVEN CANDIA
THE Police are to enlist the support of the International Police (Interpol) to investigate the mystery surrounding the murder of Col. Edson Muzoora.
Muzoora’s body was dumped at his country home in Nyanga, Kyeigombe in Igara, Bushenyi district by unidentified people.
Opening a regional conference of Criminal Investigations Department (CID) directors and registrars of motor vehicles, Police chief Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura yesterday said preliminary investigations suggest that Muzoora was murdered outside Uganda and his body smuggled into the country.
“If he was killed from within, why would the perpetrators have to go through all that length to preserve the body and dress it smartly?
"It is clear that the people behind the act knew that they would have to cross several borders and that is why they had to treat the body properly,†he said.
“We are taking it as an Interpol case and I will ask the director CID to establish the truth behind the matter,†he added.
Kayihura said the fact that the perpetrators could smuggle the body across a number of borders was a threat to regional security.
“This was not a natural death. It certainly is murder. A body being brought from across borders into Uganda is an indictment on our border security,†he said.
Muzoora was a former UPDF sector commander in Bunia, DR Congo, when he deserted the army in 2003.
He was suspected to be among the leaders of People’s Redemption Army a rebel outfit that had Col. Samson Mande and Lt Col. Anthony Kyakabale as some of its leaders.
Speaking at the same function, EAC deputy secretary General Beatrice Kiraso called for greater cooperation between the regional police in order to provide peace and security.
Delegates from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi are attending the conference sponsored by the EAC aimed at assessing and chatting ways of countering transnational crime.
THE Police are to enlist the support of the International Police (Interpol) to investigate the mystery surrounding the murder of Col. Edson Muzoora.
Muzoora’s body was dumped at his country home in Nyanga, Kyeigombe in Igara, Bushenyi district by unidentified people.
Opening a regional conference of Criminal Investigations Department (CID) directors and registrars of motor vehicles, Police chief Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura yesterday said preliminary investigations suggest that Muzoora was murdered outside Uganda and his body smuggled into the country.
“If he was killed from within, why would the perpetrators have to go through all that length to preserve the body and dress it smartly?
"It is clear that the people behind the act knew that they would have to cross several borders and that is why they had to treat the body properly,†he said.
“We are taking it as an Interpol case and I will ask the director CID to establish the truth behind the matter,†he added.
Kayihura said the fact that the perpetrators could smuggle the body across a number of borders was a threat to regional security.
“This was not a natural death. It certainly is murder. A body being brought from across borders into Uganda is an indictment on our border security,†he said.
Muzoora was a former UPDF sector commander in Bunia, DR Congo, when he deserted the army in 2003.
He was suspected to be among the leaders of People’s Redemption Army a rebel outfit that had Col. Samson Mande and Lt Col. Anthony Kyakabale as some of its leaders.
Speaking at the same function, EAC deputy secretary General Beatrice Kiraso called for greater cooperation between the regional police in order to provide peace and security.
Delegates from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi are attending the conference sponsored by the EAC aimed at assessing and chatting ways of countering transnational crime.