Rwakasisi out of death row
FORMER internal affairs minister Chris Rwakasisi, on death row in Luzira Prisons, has been moved from the condemned section to the general prison, Boma, sources said yesterday.
FORMER internal affairs minister Chris Rwakasisi, on death row in Luzira Prisons, has been moved from the condemned section to the general prison, Boma, sources said yesterday, reports Emmy Allio.
Sources said the transfer could mean that Rwakasisi was being prepared for release. They said President Yoweri Museveni might free him.
Senior assistant commissioner of prisons for administration David Nsalasatta said the
former Obote II minister was sick and was moved for medical reasons but did not name the disease.
“He is not very sick, but he was transferred to Boma where medical facilities exist. There is nothing peculiar about this transfer,†Nsalasatta said.
He said, “Congestion is a major problem for us. No prisons have been built since the 1960s.â€
He said there were about 300 inmates on death row.
In 1998, Rwakasisi was sentenced to death by Justice Ignatius Mukanza for murder. He was apprehended in Jinja in July 1985 by Tito Okello soldiers while trying to flee the country following the ouster of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) regime.
He committed the offence in 1981 when he was the state minister in for security and head of the defunct National Security Services (NSS).
Together with an NSS operative, Elias Wanyama, he kidnapped and killed Rwanchwende, George Kananura, Rwabutoto, Hajji Mbiringi, Nuwagaba, Muhumuza and Mwine. The Supreme Court rejected his plea.
In 2000, Museveni told a radio station in Mbarara that he would not sign the decree to hang Rwakasisi.
Sources said when the former Central Region governor in Idi Amin’s regime, Lt. Col. Nasur Abdalla, was about to go free in 2001, he was first transferred to Boma.
Sources said the transfer could mean that Rwakasisi was being prepared for release. They said President Yoweri Museveni might free him.
Senior assistant commissioner of prisons for administration David Nsalasatta said the
former Obote II minister was sick and was moved for medical reasons but did not name the disease.
“He is not very sick, but he was transferred to Boma where medical facilities exist. There is nothing peculiar about this transfer,†Nsalasatta said.
He said, “Congestion is a major problem for us. No prisons have been built since the 1960s.â€
He said there were about 300 inmates on death row.
In 1998, Rwakasisi was sentenced to death by Justice Ignatius Mukanza for murder. He was apprehended in Jinja in July 1985 by Tito Okello soldiers while trying to flee the country following the ouster of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) regime.
He committed the offence in 1981 when he was the state minister in for security and head of the defunct National Security Services (NSS).
Together with an NSS operative, Elias Wanyama, he kidnapped and killed Rwanchwende, George Kananura, Rwabutoto, Hajji Mbiringi, Nuwagaba, Muhumuza and Mwine. The Supreme Court rejected his plea.
In 2000, Museveni told a radio station in Mbarara that he would not sign the decree to hang Rwakasisi.
Sources said when the former Central Region governor in Idi Amin’s regime, Lt. Col. Nasur Abdalla, was about to go free in 2001, he was first transferred to Boma.