Aston Lukoye
A former kid solider, Alex Twinomugisha, United Nations agency was suspect of gunning down 3 Makerere University students on June eleven, 1999, has been on remand at Luzira jail for the last twenty two years.
Magistrates Court to permit it drop charges against Twinomugisha.
“This is to tell court that the Director of Public Prosecutions has set to discontinue proceedings against Alex Twinomugisha charged with murder contrary to section 188 and 189 of the legal code Act,” state lawyer Joan Keko told court.
Twinomugisha’s professionals junction rectifier by Geoffrey Turyamusiima failed to object to the withdrawal of charges and thereby prompting court to rule out the defence’s favour.
Chief official, Dr.Douglas Singiza, afterward allowed the DPP to withdraw the costs .
“Whereas the suspect was brought before the court and charged with murder and therefore the Director of Public Prosecutions set to discontinue proceedings against the suspect person, it’s herewith ordered that the suspect person be unchained directly unless control for osme alternative lawful reason,”Singiza.
Twinomujuni was suspect of fatally shooting Maria Mirindi Birungi Katasi, a 3rd year Social Sciences student, her cousin-german Corporal Mirindi Amooti Kajabagu a pupil in his fourth year and Richard Tumwesigye, a pupil in his third year.
In 1999, the shootings of the 3 deceased student stricken headlines across the country with bloody accounts of a murder most foul.
“My brother, corporal Kajabagu beside our cousin-german Katasi and their friend Tumwesigye were strolling back from a law dinner and after they reached the jap gate of the university, Twinomugisha allegedly opened fireplace on them,” aforementioned a friend.
This friend claims Twinomugisha was a triggerman United Nations agency was allotted to kill his brother, Corporal Kajabagu, when the latter became a fabric witness within the double kill of Tooro kingdom patrician Happy Kijanangoma and writer Kaganda on Lady Day, 1999.
Twinomugisha was a first-rate suspect within the murder of the Tooro royal and therefore the court found him guilty beside 2 others as well as Tooro Kingdom Prime Minister John Sanyu Katuramu and his kinsman Patrick Kwezi guilty.
They were all sentenced to death.
However, these sentences were later commuted to twenty years imprisonment when a Supreme Court ruling involving Ms. Susan Kigula because the lead person during a case that junction rectifier to the ending of the obligatory corporal punishment in African country in 2016.
Twinomugisha’s lawyer, Goeffrey Turyamusiima, aforementioned their next move are to hunt compensation from the courts of law for Twinomugisha’s detention for twenty two years while not trial.
