Investigators appear to have a case of a professional killer who shot dead the well-known blogger Ibrahim Tusubira alias Isma Olaxes aka Jjaja Ichuli on Saturday night in close proximity to the victim’s suburban Kampala house.
The likelihood that the murderer followed the victim’s movements has been ruled out by police closed-circuit television (CCTV) teams at Kampala Central Police Station, Kira Road, and Kira Division.
Security sources claim that until Isma’s Toyota Hiace UBK 213 D diverged off the road and onto the access route leading to his area of residence, where police cameras could no longer view it, it was travelling without any suspicious car or motorcycle pursuing it.
Security sources claimed: “Our cameras caught him in the co-driver’s seat and he was being driven by the person we have already known as Mathias Waiswa.” “Waiswa has been his personal companion and driver, so we’ve been told. Our investigation reveals no car or motorcycle was pursuing him, yet his attacker waited patiently for him.
Since then, Waiswa, who was unharmed during the incident, has verified that Tusubira was being driven by him, according to Luke Owoyesigyire, deputy spokesperson for the Kampala Metropolitan Police. Waiswa is currently being protected as a critical witness, according to the police.
According to ASP Owoyesigyire, “He in his motor vehicle, registered under number UBK 213 D, with his driver, Mr. Waswa Mathias.” The unidentified shooter opened fire on the car while carrying an SMG, killing Tusubira who was in the passenger seat at the time of the attack, according to preliminary reports.
According to reports, Tusubira’s murderer arrived at the crime scene about two hours earlier and was observed by residents, who were unconcerned by his presence. Locals have even since told police that, unlike in the earlier gun murders, the killer was not wearing a mask.
“The locals saw him at around 7 pm and he kept walking in the same area,” a security source claimed. Since there were numerous other persons travelling in other directions along the same access path, the occupants had no cause for alarm. However, they observed the same individual quickly approaching Isma’s car and starting to fire from the co-driver’s seat, according to a security source.
ASP Owoyesigyire responded that police CCTVs do not cover the murder scene when questioned about the description of the killer’s look. However, he claimed that authorities had discovered that numerous private residences nearby had CCTVs that could have recorded the entire shooting occurrence.
“The locals are still in shock,” he declared. “However, we are asking the owners of the houses with CCTV cameras that we have observed to share the video with us. We will be able to provide information on the murderer and how it all happened once we have access to these CCTV footage, according to ASP Owoyesigyire.
Security officials believe the reason the killer chose not to shoot the driver was because someone briefed him on where he was sitting in the car. “When committing a murder, the shooter makes sure to kill everyone inside so the target has no chance of surviving. But in this case, the shooter was pretty certain, which leads us to believe that someone saw Isma getting into the car and told the murderer about it, a source added.
Many Ugandans, including Parliament Speaker Anita Among and Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, have subsequently denounced Tusubira’s murder and demanded police to look into it right now and catch those responsible.
