Kanyamunyu's brother still battling court, girlfriend set free

The High Court in Kampala on Thursday sentenced Mathew Kanyamunyu, the Executive Director, Quantum Express Logistics to five years and one month in prison. 

Meanwhile, the same court discharged his co-accused and girlfriend Cynthia Munwangari after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) discontinued murder proceedings against her.

Kanyamunyu and Munwangari were accused of killing Kenneth Akena Watmon, the former employee of ACODER, a non-government organisation based in Kasese district.

On November 12, 2020, Justice Stephen Mubiru sentenced Mathew Kanyamunyu to five years and one month in prison after he was convicted of manslaughter.

This comes after Kanyamunyu entered a plea bargain with the DPP for his sentence to be reduced from murder to manslaughter.

The judge read out the brief facts of the case, were Kanyamunyu pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter.

While sentencing him, the judge considered the time Mathew Kanyamunyu had spent on remand which is elven months, the time of plea bargain, he was a first time offender, he has a family to look after and he has a health issue, where he suffers from hypertension.

However, after sentencing him, the judge advised him to appeal against his ruling if he is not satisfied.

Meanwhile, his brother Joseph Kanyamunyu is battling charges of accessory to murder.

"A few minutes before police could arrive at the hospital; Joseph came and parked his motor vehicle close to Kanyamunyu. He was seen by the security officer being given a pistol by Kanyamunyu and drove off to an unknown destination," states a summary of the case submitted in court by the state.

The prosecution told the court that the convict and others still at large committed the offence on November 12, 2016, along Kampala-Jinja Road opposite Malik car bond.

Kanyamunyu is said to have shot Akena in the stomach over denting his car. Akena died a day after at Norvik Hospital, on Bombo Road in Kampala.