Police seize street lights at councillor's home

CRIME 

MBARARA- The Police last week searched the residence of Muzamil Ssekajja, the Mbarara city councillor representing Kishenyi ward and former secretary for works at the Municipal council.

A search at his home, located at Nyamityobora ward in Kakoba, Mbarara, yielded over 1,000 pavers and a street light, items suspected to be council properties.

The pavers and street light were taken to Mbarara Central Police Station as exhibits.

The Rwizi region Police spokesperson, Samson Kasasira, said the search conducted at councillor Muzamil Ssekajja's home, sanctioned through a court order, was intended to recover council properties that were suspected to have been stolen.

After the search, Ssekajja, who is on Police bond, signed the search report. It was also witnessed by the enforcement team from the city council and office of the city clerk.

Ssekajja is a councillor representing Kisenyi ward.

Richard Mugisha, the deputy city clerk who represented his boss during the search, said the recovered pavers were meant for walkways within the city.

He said they were left in the council yard by Abubaker technical services, a company that had got the tender to work on the roads under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development project.

Byansi Muhammad, the councillor for Nyamityobora ward B, said: "Let the Police investigate. If they find that the pavers and street light belong to the council, the law should take its course."

In February this year, two homes of Ssekajja were searched by Lt. Col. James Mwesigye, the Resident District Commissioner (RDC) and the Police from Mbarara Central Police Station after one of the councillors said there were council properties at Ssekajja's homes.

The Police said they found two street lights; one at his Nyamityobora home and another one at his other home in Rubaya, Kashari.

He was taken to the Police and later released on bond. However, Ssekajja described the search as political witch hunt.

He says the pavers and street lights are his and that he bought them for personal use. He says he is not moved by the accusations, because he knows he will defeat his political enemies.