Fox Odoi quizzed
Feb 24, 2006
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni’s legal assistant Fox Odoi was yesterday interrogated by the
By Steven Candia and Charles Ariko
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni’s legal assistant Fox Odoi was yesterday interrogated by the Police over allegations of harassing and torturing voters on polling day in Tororo district.
Shortly after his two-and-a-half hour stay at the CID headquarters, Odoi, in an attempt to avoid fielding questions, almost knocked down reporters and plain-clothes detectives as he sped off in his Grey Toyota Land Cruiser, UAE 575 V. Odoi arrived at the CID at 10:00am following a summons to appear before the electoral offences squad over the incident.
Upon arrival, he headed to the office of Elly Womanya, the head of the squad, where he was quizzed and recorded.
Odoi emerged from the office at 12:33pm. Reporters who had been waiting mobbed him but Odoi said, “I don’t want to talk to you.†He locked himself in the car.
He spun the car and hid his face as the cameras clicked away. He also pressed on the accelerator as he shot towards the main gate, nearly knocking down reporters and detectives.
Police wanted Odoi to explain where he got the firearm, why he was involved in the arrest and the subsequent shooting.
“He has recorded a statement and we have taken his particulars. We will call him back if it is deemed necessary,†Womanya said.
Odoi was captured in a front-page photograph of a newspaper brandishing a gun over bare-chest men lying on the ground.
In the statement Odoi did not deny taking part in the arrest but said the weapon was private.
He said he was there in his individual capacity as a citizen fighting crime.
He said he went to Tororo following persistent complaints from one of the municipality aspirants that one of the contestants was ferrying foreign voters from Kenya. He said, however, the suspects turned out to be Ugandan.
He said he was photographed as he protected the men from a mob. He denied assaulting a Daily Monitor reporter.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni’s legal assistant Fox Odoi was yesterday interrogated by the Police over allegations of harassing and torturing voters on polling day in Tororo district.
Shortly after his two-and-a-half hour stay at the CID headquarters, Odoi, in an attempt to avoid fielding questions, almost knocked down reporters and plain-clothes detectives as he sped off in his Grey Toyota Land Cruiser, UAE 575 V. Odoi arrived at the CID at 10:00am following a summons to appear before the electoral offences squad over the incident.
Upon arrival, he headed to the office of Elly Womanya, the head of the squad, where he was quizzed and recorded.
Odoi emerged from the office at 12:33pm. Reporters who had been waiting mobbed him but Odoi said, “I don’t want to talk to you.†He locked himself in the car.
He spun the car and hid his face as the cameras clicked away. He also pressed on the accelerator as he shot towards the main gate, nearly knocking down reporters and detectives.
Police wanted Odoi to explain where he got the firearm, why he was involved in the arrest and the subsequent shooting.
“He has recorded a statement and we have taken his particulars. We will call him back if it is deemed necessary,†Womanya said.
Odoi was captured in a front-page photograph of a newspaper brandishing a gun over bare-chest men lying on the ground.
In the statement Odoi did not deny taking part in the arrest but said the weapon was private.
He said he was there in his individual capacity as a citizen fighting crime.
He said he went to Tororo following persistent complaints from one of the municipality aspirants that one of the contestants was ferrying foreign voters from Kenya. He said, however, the suspects turned out to be Ugandan.
He said he was photographed as he protected the men from a mob. He denied assaulting a Daily Monitor reporter.