Kyambogo ICT Boss'Killers Appear Today In Court.

The Kira Division Police will arraign: Katerega Akram Ssebuliba Waswa Okiru Charles Byamugisha Johnson Nsubuga Kasim before the Kira Chief Magistrate's Court today January 9 2025 on allegations of murder in connection with the death of Akansasira Jacob, 40, an IT personnel at Kyambogo University.

 The incident occurred on December 2, 2024, opposite Namugongo Catholic Shrine at the entrance of Kigambo Ghetto.

Whereas a number of people, including close friends had blamed Akansasira’s death on an attack by robbers, the police spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke said preliminary investigations indicate the IT personnel was lynched by an angry mob. 

Rusoke explained that he deceased had spent a night in Kyebando with his family but was lynched from Namugongo, near the martyrs shrine. “Preliminary investigations show he could have strayed in those areas(Namugongo) and the population that landed on him didn’t do at least minimum due diligence and ended up lynching him suspecting him to be robber.

Our biggest suspicion is that he could have gone for a drinking spree,” Kituuma said. He however warned members of the public against mob action that he said has cost lives of innocent Ugandans. The police spokesperson advised the public on handling such case.

 “There is a person who lands into your hands and you think is a criminal when in the actual sense he is not. It is very easy to tell one is just not of sound mind and not a criminal as thought. You can check this by trying to talk to them but also observing their behaviour.”

“This habit of lynching suspected criminals is not good since we lose innocent persons. Give a person an opportunity to explain themselves.Killing them is wrong. Mob action denies police an opportunity to connect to other participants in the crime. Even if someone is got in an offence surrender him so we can use him to get others.” Kituuma said Jacob Akansasira, the IT personnel at Kyambogo University was lost under similar circumstances of recklessness of society.