By Our Reporter
24th Aug 2023
Buganda Road Court has adjourned the matter where Ivan Wabwire, a Police officer is accused of killing an Indian money lender in Kampala to enable the state to finalize his investigations.
Wabwire has again on Thursday appeared before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate Ronald Kayizzi on charges of murder where the magistrate has put the state led by Ivan Kyazze on task to finalize the investigations for the accused is committed to the High court for trial before giving the last adjournment date of September 21st, 2023.
However, after the court session the defense lawyer Geoffrey Turyamussima told the journalists that he believes his client is innocent and whatever he did which was contrary to the law was done without the right state of mind.
The Court has heard that on May 12, 2023, at Raja Chambers along Parliament Avenue in Kampala District with malice aforethought Wabwire unlawfully killed an Indian national later identified as Uttam Bhandari Saremal the director of TFS Financial Services which regularly offered loans to police officers and other members of the public.
In the aftermath, the Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, explained that Wabwire was diagnosed with a mental illness six years ago and that the leadership at Kampala Central police station had taken a decision never to deploy him with a rifle or in situations that demand him to use a weapon.
Emerging details show that Wabwire first acquired a loan worth 1 million from TFS in 2020 which would accumulate an interest of 320,000 shillings in 12 months.
He acquired a second loan in 2021 of the same amount for the same interest rate and period but this time he defaulted.
It is alleged that at the time of the shooting, Wabwire had gone to ask for a quotation so that the loan could be bought off by an unnamed bank.
He returned the killer gun to the Central Police Station (CPS) before fleeing Busia near the Kenyan border from where he was arrested over the weekend.
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