By Elizabeth Ankunda
6th Oct 2023
Ivan Wabwire, a Police officer who is accused of killing an Indian money lender in Kampala has been committed to high court for trial.
Wabwire appeared before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court today on charges of murder.
The state prosecutor Ivan Kyazze has told court that all they had concluded their investigations confirming that Wabwire committed the crime in his normal senses and asked the trial magistrate Ronald Kayiizi to commit him for trial.
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.
Bhandari was the director of TFS Financial Services which regularly offered loans to police officers and other members of the public.
But his life was ended when Wabwire shot him over nine times across two intervals shortly after an argument at Raja Chambers in Kampala.
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 CPS before fleeing Busia near the Kenyan border from where he was arrested over the weekend.
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