Mercy Mukankusi, the widow of slain former national boxing team captain Zebra Ssenyange alias Mando is unhappy with President Museveni whom she blames for what she called "delayed justice".
Zebra was gunned down in the night as he fled from his assailants, who attacked his home in St Francis Zone in Bwaise, a Kampala suburb last year on December 30 around midnight.
Shortly after, Museveni admitted that the deceased who by then was supposed to meet him, was killed by government's own security personnel who were carrying out an operation, and committed to investigate into the gruesome murder, unearth the truth and have the killers face the law.
However, the distressed family says that since then, they have heard nothing from the president's pledged investigations. Mukankusi, said that as a family, they have started doubting the president's commitment to apprehend the killers.
"Since the death of my husband, up to now we have not told me the reason why he was killed," said Mukankusi with tears.
"Yes he played in the UPDF boxing team but he could not insult any soldier. Kaka Bagenda the former ISO director used to meet him on business unknown to me, but I never saw armed soldiers coming here. The first night I saw them was the same day my husband was killed," she added.
She says that since Museveni's revelation and apology, no one has been arrested which has since left the family with disturbing questions as to why it has taken so long to have killers and their commanders arrested because their exact identities are known.
"I call upon the President of Uganda because I need justice for my husband. I know he was killed and the president admitted that he knows the people who killed Zebra, I demand justice and I know they have said they are waiting for your order that they arrest those people. I hope that you're going to give that order so that they arrest those people that killed him," says Mukankusi.
A police source at CID Kibuli headquarters confided that the preliminary investigations into the killing of Zebra were completed but they cannot arrest the (known) suspects until President Museveni has approved.
URN has also learnt that the IGP Okoth Ochola, submitted the police report on the shooting of Zebra to Museveni about two weeks ago, but they have not received any response from him.
Although police have powers to investigate and arrest suspects, in this case, they cannot since the president is involved, and as the senior-most official involved with the case, police require his permission first before they can arrest the suspected killers.
Mukankusi appealed to Museveni to at least say something in his next address scheduled for today or to order for the arrest of her husband's killers so that justice prevails. The police source said CCTV footage clearly shows the location where the killers came from before the shooting and their escape route after committing the murder.
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