Mutale Soldies Named in Kiboga Land Row Killings
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The Monitor (Kampala)
May 9, 2005
Posted to the web May 9, 2005
Robert Mukombozi&ignatius Ssuuna
Kampala
Soldiers of Maj. Kakooza Mutale's Kalangala Action Plan have been named in a land dispute in which two people have been killed.
Authorities in Kiboga told The Monitor yesterday that Lt. Col. Kasumba, attached to State House, reportedly sent Mutale's soldiers to help a landlord, Mr Isma Kanobana, survey his three-acre land.
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But upon reaching the site in Nakiruli, Bukomero sub-county, the tenants opposed to the demarcation of the land attacked the surveyors and the soldiers.
In turn, one of the soldiers shot a woman, Harriet Namagembe, a resident of the same village, sending the whole village into violence.
Armed with spears, machetes and arrows, the angry mob vandalised Kanobana's house, killings, his grandmother only identified as Mukagakanya and chopping to death 30 cows in retaliation.
The Army Spokesman, Maj. Shaban Bantariza, said the soldiers were members of KAP.
"I have heard about those soldiers and the incident in which they are involved. But they do not belong to the UPDF. I hear they belong to Mutale's group," he said by telephone.
Efforts to contact Mutale yesterday were futile as his phone was off.
The District Police Commander, Mr Charles Bidemu, said a force of policemen had been deployed to restore peace and hunt down the culprits.
He said they were also looking for Cpl. Junior Songoro, one of the three soldiers suspected to have killed Namagambe.
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Kiboga RDC, Margaret Kasaijja confirmed the deaths and said they had arrested two soldiers but Cpl. Songolo fled.
Kasaijja said the soldiers were arrested and detained in Kampala, but could not disclose their identities and where they were held.
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