Seven police officers have been arrested by the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) in connection to the recent assassination of Buyende district police commander Muhammad Kirumira.
According to URN, the officers, most of them operatives of the Flying Squad Unit, were arrested over the last two weeks from different parts of Kampala and Wakiso following intelligence information linking them to the gruesome September 8 incident, which also claimed the life of one Resty Nalinya Mbabazi.
The two were shot from Bulenga, along the Kampala-Mityana highway.
URN has since learnt that CMI conducted a secret operation which netted Deus Byaruhanga, formerly a driver in Flying Squad, David Bamwesigye, a former Flying Squad operative, Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ismail Ssenono, the officer in charge operations at Old Kampala police station and others whose identities are yet to be released.
They were then taken to CMI headquarters in Mbuya for interrogation before being distributed to different detention centres.
A source privy to the ongoing investigations said that CMI is running a parallel investigation whose details have been kept confidential.
Police, on the other hand, are still following the different information given by informants as well as tips from the more that 20 witness statements recorded after the assassination.
However, information from the investigators shows that all the leads that have been pursued thus far, have hit a dead end bringing the investigations back to step one.
Prior to his shooting, Kirumira had complained to police that people were trailing him and threatening his life, a complaint that was ignored.
He had spent a better part of his time in police, complaining against the alleged criminality by the operatives of the Flying Squad Unit and other police officers whom he claimed to have incriminating evidence against.
Among those he complained against was former Professional Standards Unit commandant Joel Aguma, Nixon Agasirwe, the former commandant of the Special Operations Unit, Herbert Muhangi, the former commandant of the Flying Squad and an operative only identified as Faisal, among many others.
Most of those he complained against have since been arrested by CMI and are facing various charges at the General Court Martial.
