Police quiz Nyakaana
Jan 10, 2005
Kampala City Councillor Godfrey Nyakaana’s woes are multiplying. Jinja Road Police yesterday said they interrogated Nyakaana for punching a Police officer on duty and inciting violence.
By Steven Candia and Gerald Tenywa
Kampala City Councillor Godfrey Nyakaana’s woes are multiplying. Jinja Road Police yesterday said they interrogated Nyakaana for punching a Police officer on duty and inciting violence.
They said Nyakaana, in a violent fit of rage, confronted and punched the officer in charge of Jinja Road Police Station, Stephen Onenchan, as he supervised the demolition of his house in Bugolobi, a Kampala suburb, on Friday. The house was being built on a wetland. Nyakaana turned up at the station in the morning wearing a grey suit, a white checked shirt, a red necktie and brown shoes.
His left arm was heavily bandaged.
Nyakaana said he was shot and injured by the Police but the latter said the former international boxer was injured as he was being dragged out of the house that was about to be demolished.
Nyakaana was arrested on Thursday for defying the order not to build in the wetland that the environment watchdog, NEMA, describes as key to sustainable management of Lake Victoria. He secured a Police bond but was interrogated when he reported at the station yesterday.
The station chief Wilson Kwanya said the file had been submitted to the Director of Public Prosecution. “Nyakaana recorded a statement on grounds of assaulting a police officer on duty and inciting violence,†he said.
Nyakana was interrogated for most of the day before he was freed on another Police bond.
Kwanya said Nyakaana would be charged with inciting violence and assault.
The LCI chairperson of Bungalow 111, Gonzaga Matovu, yesterday appeared at The New Vision offices and complained of death threats from anonymous callers. He said he was in hiding and feared for his life. Matovu’s house was demolished on Saturday morning reportedly by people who accused him of masterminding the demolition of Nyakaana’s house.
Matovu said he had developed misunderstandings with Nyakaana after he warned him not to build in the wetland.
He also had a dispute over another plot of land owned by Nyakaana, which has sewer pipes from Bugolobi flats.
“We had a misunderstanding over land, which Nyakaana wanted to develop,’’ he said, adding that the sewer pipes drain through the plot.
Kampala City Councillor Godfrey Nyakaana’s woes are multiplying. Jinja Road Police yesterday said they interrogated Nyakaana for punching a Police officer on duty and inciting violence.
They said Nyakaana, in a violent fit of rage, confronted and punched the officer in charge of Jinja Road Police Station, Stephen Onenchan, as he supervised the demolition of his house in Bugolobi, a Kampala suburb, on Friday. The house was being built on a wetland. Nyakaana turned up at the station in the morning wearing a grey suit, a white checked shirt, a red necktie and brown shoes.
His left arm was heavily bandaged.
Nyakaana said he was shot and injured by the Police but the latter said the former international boxer was injured as he was being dragged out of the house that was about to be demolished.
Nyakaana was arrested on Thursday for defying the order not to build in the wetland that the environment watchdog, NEMA, describes as key to sustainable management of Lake Victoria. He secured a Police bond but was interrogated when he reported at the station yesterday.
The station chief Wilson Kwanya said the file had been submitted to the Director of Public Prosecution. “Nyakaana recorded a statement on grounds of assaulting a police officer on duty and inciting violence,†he said.
Nyakana was interrogated for most of the day before he was freed on another Police bond.
Kwanya said Nyakaana would be charged with inciting violence and assault.
The LCI chairperson of Bungalow 111, Gonzaga Matovu, yesterday appeared at The New Vision offices and complained of death threats from anonymous callers. He said he was in hiding and feared for his life. Matovu’s house was demolished on Saturday morning reportedly by people who accused him of masterminding the demolition of Nyakaana’s house.
Matovu said he had developed misunderstandings with Nyakaana after he warned him not to build in the wetland.
He also had a dispute over another plot of land owned by Nyakaana, which has sewer pipes from Bugolobi flats.
“We had a misunderstanding over land, which Nyakaana wanted to develop,’’ he said, adding that the sewer pipes drain through the plot.