Yesterday the Uganda Military Police truck ran over Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert’s bodyguard, Frank Ssenteza Kalibala at Busega and killed him.
Today, it was his burial at his ancestral area in Kalungu District.
However, hours after his burial, Uganda Police force via their official social media handles came out with a press statement, citing that they were blocked by National Unity Platform supporters from doing the postmortem on the Victim’s body despite the fact that the family members allowed them to do so.
Police is saying that their investigations faced a setback and they started the process of securing a court order that will help them to exhume the body for postmortem analysis and to reach at the real cause of Frank’s death.
As part of investigations into the death of Frank Senteza, a private bodyguard of Hon. Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert, our task teams actively investigating the matter, faced a setback, after the victim was buried at the ancestral home along Villa road, in Kalungu District, without being examined on postmortem.
Yesterday 27.12.2020, the body of the victim was released with post mortem forms, by Rubaga Hospital to close relatives and NUP members for them to transfer the body to Mulago City Mortuary for postmortem analysis. Unfortunately, they diverted the Ambulance and the body of the victim to the NUP offices in Kamwokya, where a vigil was held.
The body was thereafter, transferred to the deceased’s ancestral home in Kalungu Villa Road, for burial. Several engagements with the family including Major General Elly Kayanja, granted permission for a post mortem examination to be carried out in Masaka. Our team of pathologists flew by chopper to Masaka to conduct a joint postmortem analysis with family doctors, to help classify the cause of death and the nature of injuries.
Despite clearance from the family, several NUP supporters who were aggressive blocked police efforts to have the body of the deceased examined by a joint team of medical experts. They proceeded to bury the victim, without postmortem examination. We are disturbed by the conduct of these supporters in blocking the postmortem examination.
We have now started the process of obtaining a court order to exhume the body of the victim for post mortem analysis, to classify the cause of death and the nature of injuries. The initiative is also a great opportunity for our task teams of investigators to make sure all the different parts of the investigations are completed.
Any further progress will be communicated in due course.” The full police press statement reads.