Court in Bugiri on Tuesday June 13, 2023 remanded the two prime suspects in the murder of former Bugiri District Inspector of Schools, David Tenywa Kazungu.
Court also released unconditionally the rest of the suspcts on the same file.
This after prosecution indicated that the two prime suspcts, 20-year-old Christopher Byansi and Abdallah Ziraba aged 26 who were casual laborers on the deceased’s farm located in Nandelema village, Kapyanga sub county, Bugiri district condessed to the charges.
They appeared before Bugiri grade one magistrate her worship Lillian Mazimwe who remanded them till 26th June 2023.
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.
