Bugolobi child murder suspect in U-turn
Jul 22, 2010
THE key suspect in the murder of baby Kham Kakama of Bugolobi in Kampala yesterday asked the court to issue an arrest warrant for the father.
By Andante Okanya
and Mark Owor
THE key suspect in the murder of baby Kham Kakama of Bugolobi in Kampala yesterday asked the court to issue an arrest warrant for the father.
He also disowned the statement he recorded at the time of his arrest confessing to the murder.
Gordon Tumusiime told Grade II Magistrate Robert Imalingat he was “forced to record falsehoods†and requested court to allow him make new statements.
Speaking in Luganda, Tumusiime told the stunned court that he had proof that the boy’s father knew the circumstances under which he died.
The three suspects who were charged with the murder last month were appearing before the court again yesterday.
The other two suspects are Brian Sajjabi and the maid, Mellon Nabaasa.
The magistrate, however, declined to grant Tumusiime’s requests, saying he should wait until he has been committed to the High Court for trial.
The 18-month Kakama was kidnapped on June 8 from home and his body was found in a sisal sack dumped in a Kamwokya swamp, also in Kampala, on June 13.
His father Sven Karekaho works with the Uganda Revenue Authority, while his mother Naome Karekaho is the spokesperson of the National Environmental Management Authority.
On June 28, Tumusiime and Sajjabi recorded extra-judicial statements before the Nakawa Court in which they confessed to killing the boy and extorting a sh30m ransom.
The prosecutor, Prossy Ayebale, said they murdered Kakama between June 8 and 13 this year in Kisenyi II zone, Kamwokya, Kampala district. If convicted, they will be hanged.
Ayebale said yesterday investigations were incomplete and asked for an adjournment.
Accordingly, magistrate Imalingat adjourned the case to August 4, and further remanded the accused to Luzira Prison where they have been since July 1.
The two men looked calm and
healthy, but Nabaasa appeared miserable and sobbed uncontrollably. She had to be whisked back to the holding cells by prison warders.
Barefoot, she wore the same clothes she had the last time she was in the court: a red T-shirt and a purple skirt.
and Mark Owor
THE key suspect in the murder of baby Kham Kakama of Bugolobi in Kampala yesterday asked the court to issue an arrest warrant for the father.
He also disowned the statement he recorded at the time of his arrest confessing to the murder.
Gordon Tumusiime told Grade II Magistrate Robert Imalingat he was “forced to record falsehoods†and requested court to allow him make new statements.
Speaking in Luganda, Tumusiime told the stunned court that he had proof that the boy’s father knew the circumstances under which he died.
The three suspects who were charged with the murder last month were appearing before the court again yesterday.
The other two suspects are Brian Sajjabi and the maid, Mellon Nabaasa.
The magistrate, however, declined to grant Tumusiime’s requests, saying he should wait until he has been committed to the High Court for trial.
The 18-month Kakama was kidnapped on June 8 from home and his body was found in a sisal sack dumped in a Kamwokya swamp, also in Kampala, on June 13.
His father Sven Karekaho works with the Uganda Revenue Authority, while his mother Naome Karekaho is the spokesperson of the National Environmental Management Authority.
On June 28, Tumusiime and Sajjabi recorded extra-judicial statements before the Nakawa Court in which they confessed to killing the boy and extorting a sh30m ransom.
The prosecutor, Prossy Ayebale, said they murdered Kakama between June 8 and 13 this year in Kisenyi II zone, Kamwokya, Kampala district. If convicted, they will be hanged.
Ayebale said yesterday investigations were incomplete and asked for an adjournment.
Accordingly, magistrate Imalingat adjourned the case to August 4, and further remanded the accused to Luzira Prison where they have been since July 1.
The two men looked calm and
healthy, but Nabaasa appeared miserable and sobbed uncontrollably. She had to be whisked back to the holding cells by prison warders.
Barefoot, she wore the same clothes she had the last time she was in the court: a red T-shirt and a purple skirt.