Mr Senkindu,
1/6 In you message below, you say: “….the report mentions nothing about what the former dog master has constantly been telling the public that that his soldiers(dogs) traced the killers to a certain army baracks where some stolen belongings to the assualted house were found. ….. how comes (SIC) that murder was planned not the baracks where the dogs traced them but rather somewhere outside?
2/6 However, there were reports that Dison Kopliano Oduttu the dog handler that claimed to have attended the Kayiira murder scene was never part of the investigation because he was on a 196-day leave and only reported back on duty on March 11, 1987, five days after the murder. Might you have any source of information on whether that claim by Police was ever refuted? If you do please, avail it to us at the forum.
3/6 I was also wondering whether you based your remarks on the dog handler on the interview of the same gentleman which the Monitor published in the edition of Tuesday 16 January 2007 or you had another source. If it is the latter, please do the needful.
4/6 Additionally, Uganda Police also claimed that they had only 31 dogs as of March 1987, and not 180 as claimed by Mr. Oduttu, the dog handler you refer to and of the 31 dogs, only two were trained in tracking, patrol and crowd control, 21 dogs were untrained and eight were puppies. Uganda Police further said they had no sniffers. I was just wondering whether you might have chanced to land on any source that disputed that claim by Uganda Police. It would give us interesting insights on how the police do their work.
5/6 In addition, Uganda Police made some claims on the Monitor interview of Affande Corporal Eddie Sande. They claimed that the Monitor were selective on parts of the Corporal’s interview that they published. That some of those accounts if published would have put into question the Affande’s sanity and therefore, credibility. Corporal Sande claimed in his interview with the Monitor that he was brain-washed and had ‘a chip inserted in his brain’ to erase his memory and that the chip was later removed and his memory restored in the US. Did you hear of any such information?
6/6 You ended by saying that, “Our only hope is that the murder file be reopened as soon the incumbent regime is wrestled on the ground. Otherwise before that, no truth will ever come out because I am pretty sure that even our corporal Otto knows more than he is feeding us per now.” All I can say is that, on this forum, we gain interest only in discussing issues that can offer us mileage with regard to speculation. As soon as facts or concrete hints emerge, we keep quiet or fly off on a handle to some new speculation. We never pay much attention to information that keeps emerging in open sources making one wonder about whether we have real interest in what we say here, or whether we are interested at all in knowing the truth. The cynicism and sarcasm that pervades many of our remarks is testimony. For example, even when many were saying that the Kayiira report was never made public, the fact is that it started circulating in the press ever since 1997. What Otto knows is What Robert Senkindu or anybody else would know if they were genuinely interested in these matters. Of course there are some of you that are in denial over those documents, or are opting merely to nit-pick them or to lengthily split hairs on inconsequential aspects thereof. That is us: UAH. Anyhow, here are the links to the report as published in the New Vision:
http://www..newvision.co.ug/D/8/455/544078/kayiira
Scotland Yard releases more facts on Kayiira death, Thursday, 18th January, 2007
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/542752/kayiira
The real Kayiira report, Thursday, 11th January, 2007
Lance Corporal (Rtd) Otto Patrick
“THE SAME HEAT THAT MELTS THE BUTTER HARDENS THE EGG”
