Ssemo denies having Kayiira murder report
DEMOCRATIC Party (DP) president general, Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere on Saturday dismissed allegations that he had the report on the murder of Dr Andrew Lutaakome-Kayiira.
By Hillary Nsambu
DEMOCRATIC Party (DP) president general, Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere on Saturday dismissed allegations that he had the report on the murder of Dr Andrew Lutaakome-Kayiira.
Lutaakome-Kayiira, a former leader of the Uganda Federal Movement (UFM) and energy minister in the first Movement administration, was murdered at Lukuli-Katwe on March 6, 1987.
“I solemnly tell you here and now that I don’t have the report on the death of Kayiira as some people have been alleging, despite the fact that I was the internal affairs minister at the time of his tragic death,†Ssemogerere said.
“All what I know is that the report was made by a team of renowned Scotland Yard detectives. It must be somewhere I also don’t know. It was never handed over to me,†Ssemogerere said.
The DP chief was speaking during a memorial service for Dr Lutaakome-Kayiira at Kanzize village, Wakiso district.
Rev Fr Edward Mukasa-Ssebukoola, the Kiziba Parish priest, led the service under tight security comprising regular Police and Lodal Defence Unit personnel.
He told the people not to be hoodwinked by foreigners who insist that everything is well in Uganda when the country has the lowest life expectancy in the world.
“Uganda is having the shortest life expectancy in the whole world. We must find out why it is like this,†he said.
He attributed the deaths of young people to many factors that include wars, economic recession and diseases like AIDS.
DEMOCRATIC Party (DP) president general, Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere on Saturday dismissed allegations that he had the report on the murder of Dr Andrew Lutaakome-Kayiira.
Lutaakome-Kayiira, a former leader of the Uganda Federal Movement (UFM) and energy minister in the first Movement administration, was murdered at Lukuli-Katwe on March 6, 1987.
“I solemnly tell you here and now that I don’t have the report on the death of Kayiira as some people have been alleging, despite the fact that I was the internal affairs minister at the time of his tragic death,†Ssemogerere said.
“All what I know is that the report was made by a team of renowned Scotland Yard detectives. It must be somewhere I also don’t know. It was never handed over to me,†Ssemogerere said.
The DP chief was speaking during a memorial service for Dr Lutaakome-Kayiira at Kanzize village, Wakiso district.
Rev Fr Edward Mukasa-Ssebukoola, the Kiziba Parish priest, led the service under tight security comprising regular Police and Lodal Defence Unit personnel.
He told the people not to be hoodwinked by foreigners who insist that everything is well in Uganda when the country has the lowest life expectancy in the world.
“Uganda is having the shortest life expectancy in the whole world. We must find out why it is like this,†he said.
He attributed the deaths of young people to many factors that include wars, economic recession and diseases like AIDS.