Buwekula County MP, Pascal Mbabazi and the Mubende LCV chairperson, Michael Muhereza Ntambi are wanted by the police on charges of alleged murder.
The allegations are that the two leaders influenced the mob that gruesomely lynched a couple over land issues.
As you read this story, Mbabazi and Ntambi have already been summoned to police.
On July 31, 2023, The Eye Media reported a tragic incident of violence in Kirwanyi Village, Kiruma Sub County Mubende District where a 54-year-old woman, Milly Naava Namutebi, and her 53-year-old husband, Abdullah Kayizi, were brutally murdered that morning over a land dispute.
The couple landed into a group of people who killed them as they headed to their garden with their two children. The two children survived by escaping from the killers.
Police has so far arrestes 5 suspects since the investigations into the alleged murder were launched.
On top of the 5 already in custody, the detectives want Mbabazi and Ntambi.
While addressing journalists on Monday at Police headquarters in Naguru, the force’s spokesperson Fred Enanga said the two politicians incited the acts of violence that led to the murder of a couple and the attempted murder of their two children.
“We have been getting information indicating that there are some local politicians who were fueling that land conflict and for that matter, we have summoned the area member of parliament Hon Mbabazi Pascal and the LC 5 chairperson Muhereza Ntambi Micheal over allegation that they fueled and incited acts of violence that led to the gruesome murder of landowner and her husband,” he said.
Enanga added that two have been summoned for statement recording over the alleged conspiracy of murder and incitement to violence that led to the tragic murder of Namutebi and her husband Kayizi.
“The conflict was between Nava who was one of the administrators and the squatters of this piece of land about three square miles. Whereas the MP and district chairperson did not participate in the murder, some of their relatives were actively involved. We want them to explain allegations that they incited the squatters on this land to attack Naava and her husband,” he said.
