Investigations into the murder of Bugiri District Inspector of Schools, David Tenywa Kazungu are almost complete.
Sources at Bugiri Central police station say, the file is now ready for submission to the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) for perusal and advice.
Statements from at least 15 persons including seven suspects are on the file.
Last week two prime suspects were apprehended and confessed to the murder in their separate statements.
They voluntarily opened up to the investigating team of detectives that they killed Kazungu because he had delayed paying for their sweat a sum of Shs. 900,000 for which they had worked on his farm.
The two; 20-year-old Christopher Byansi and Abdallah Ziraba aged 26 were casual laborers on the deceased’s farm located in Nandelema village, Kapyanga sub county, Bugiri district.
Kazungu was on Saturday May 27, 2023 last seen on his farm with the two casual labourers.
When he went missing, the two also disappeared from the farm.
Kazungu’s decomposing body was later on May 30, 2023 found dumped in an incomplete pitlatrine.
Using his own phone, the murderers called his family and gave them directions to the incomplete pitlatrine.
Kazungu’s daughter had two days before, filed a case at Bugiri police station following calls from strangers who used her father’s phone to demand for Shs 20m ransom if they (the family) wanted him released alive.
The police first arrested five people including Kazungu’s brother. Diana Nandawula, the Busoga East Regional Police Spokesperson would tell the Eye Media that they still looked for the prime suspects.
When the two prime suspcts were finally arrested and confessed to the crime, the police sighed with relief for the breakthrough.
“The file is now ready and we strongly believe, it shall be sanctioned because it has enough evidence,” one police officer told The Eye Media on Saturday June 10, 2023.
According to Chapter 18 (188 and 189) of the Penal Code Act, any person who of malice aforethought causes the death of another person by an unlawful act or omission commits murder and on conviction, the person shall be sentenced to death.
