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Written by Hussein Bogere
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Monday, 01 June 2009 06:48 |
As Police comes under public criticism over investigations of Pastor Robert Kayanja's sodomy allegations, HUSSEIN BOGERE retraces how previous sodomy cases have been handled by the same Police and notices a consistent pattern
PASTOR GRACE KITAKA
In 2007, 26- year- old Julius Lukyamuzi alleged that Pastor Grace Kitaka, his guardian, sodomised him as far back as 1995. Lukyamuzi claimed he was picked by Pastor Grace Kitaka who took him to his home in Mengo, near Bulange.
“At his home, I shared a room with a boy David Lule. But we later conflicted and Pastor Kitaka asked me to start sleeping in his room. We were eight boys. He started using me for many strange things. He would take me to the bathroom and force me to masturbate him,” Luyamuzi narrated to Sunday Monitor.
In 2001, Police arrested Lukyamuzi for threatening violence and took him to Kira Road Police Station. Together with two others, he was charged in court the following day and released on bail. The case was eventually dismissed.
In 2001, with the help of Kitaka, Lukyamuzi obtained a passport to enable him go to South Africa for an operation, but details in the passport, he claimed, were different from what he had filled in the forms; he was given an ID of Kyambogo University. Lukyamuzi claimed he was coached on what to tell the embassy. But in August 2003, he was arrested. “The Police came to my place and asked me for my ID, which I gave them. They asked, ‘Are you a student at Kyambogo University?’ I said, “Yes”.
Lukyamuzi was taken to Old Kira Police Station and a few days later driven to Kyambogo University to the Registrar’s Office to be asked whether he was a student there. He wasn’t registered. Lukyamuzi was taken to court on September 3 and sentenced to two years in jail in Luzira. Six months later, he was transferred to Rwimi Prison in Kasese only to be released in January 2005.
According to a letter from the Uganda Human Rights Commission to Pastor Male, Lukyamuzi had registered a complaint in 2001. As it turned out, the complaint file was located but unfortunately, it belonged to one Semwanga Pascal vs the DPP. In a letter from the UHRC, Lukyamuzi was informed that his name didn’t exist in the Commission’s records!
On July 18, 2005, Lukyamuzi learnt that Kitaka was arrested and later released by Moses Sakira on “orders from above”.
Lukyamuzi says that he went to the IGP, Kale Kayihura, on August 24, 2006 who handed him over to his personal secretary Owomugisha Herman. Owomugisha was later transferred and replaced by Anne Asiimwe. Since then Kitaka has never appeared in court.
PASTOR ISAAC KIWEWESI
Arinaitwe, who said he was employed at Kansanga Miracle Centre from 2002, filed a case with Kabalagala Police Station (SD 29/28/09/08), alleging that Pastor Kiwewesi sodomised him between 2006 and 2007 and promised to pay him Shs3 million.
Arinaitwe claimed he was used until 2007 when Kiwewesi got married. He allegedly promised Arinaitwe Sh3 million and relocation to the US.
Arinaitwe also accused Kiwewesi of harassment and threatening him with death after learning that he was coming out with the “secret”.
The OC of Kabalagala Police Station, Dorothy Awori, said at the time that the Police were investigating the matter. Arinaitwe later became the accused in a car theft case, was arrested and detained at Luzira.
MUKOMEZA’s CASE
In November 2007, a boy, Juvenile Mukomeza, alleged that he had been sodomised by one Joseph Basaliza, reportedly a security agent. His case, at Old Kampala Police Station, was reportedly mishandled and pastors Solomon Male requested Kampala Extra Region Police to investigate the matter. While a Bombo Road Police surgeon said the boy was never sodomised, the Kabalagala Police surgeon confirmed sodomy. The investigating officer reportedly told Mukomeza to arrest his abuser and that was the end of the story.
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