The Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the lower court that acquitted Ms Sarah Nabikolo, the widow to slain businessman Eriya Ssebunya Bugembe aka Kasiwukira.
Kasiwukira was killed in a hit-and-run on the morning of October 17, 2014 as he was jogging in the neighborhood of Muyenga, a Kampala suburb. He was hit by a car, which sped off after the incident.
In events that followed later, Ms Sarah Nabikolo together with her cousin Nakungu and Jaden were convicted of the murder thus Nakungu and Jaden were sent in to serve 22 years.
Early this week, in their unanimous judgment; the three justices led by Elizabeth Musoke ruled that neither of the prosecution witnesses during trial made any direct reference to the respondent (Nabikolo) as one of the persons who were involved in the plan or actually murdered Kasiwukira.
Other justices are Hellen Obura and Ezekiel Muhanguzi.
“The circumstantial evidence sought to be relied upon by the prosecution to connect the respondent to the murder was farfetched and could not be relied upon to irresistibly point to the guilt of the respondent,” said the judges in their judgment read by the deputy registrar Mr Jessy Byaruhanga.
Kasiwukira is remembered for having played a big role in the development of the local music industry. He was the first person to duplicate songs of different artistes onto cassette tapes in the early 1980s, which tapes he would brand with his logo “Kasiwukira” and then have hawkers sell them around the city.
