Mr. Patrick,
Thanks for your observations concerning the embattled late Andrew Kayiira death. While his death is no mystery anymore in the eyes of the Ugandan gov’t as it is convinced that it caught the right suspects and brought them to justice, many of the deceased’s friends, relatives and family members are yet to be convinced that justice has ever been done. The latter still and will continue to believe that the gov’t had a hand in their beloved’s death. So Mr. Patrik don’t you think that for the benefit of public interest it would have made some sense for the case to be prosecuted by private lawyers instead of DPP who prosecutes of behalf of the Gov’t, the very Gov’t which in this case was supposed to be the second defandant? This contravenes one of the principles of natural justice which states that no man can be judge in his own cause.
That aside, in your observation you note with interest that the alleged dog handler, Mr. Dison Odutu, who claimed to have trailed the killers with sniffer dogs to a certain military baracks was actually on a 196 day and only reported back to job five days later after the gruesome murder, that is, on 11th March 1987, yet late Andrew was gunned down on 6 March 1987.Mr. Patrick the following, and I reproduce them, were the words of Mr. Dison when interviewed by Daily monitor.
“I remember we had four dogs; two led us from that building (Gombya’s house) up to Ggaba Road. I happened to have been in that group. And another group of two dogs tracked the road coming back to Makindye and they are the ones which went up to Lubiri [Barracks],” Mr Odutu said. He also suggested that Dr Kayiira’s murderers could have been soldiers and not robbers. “In fact, the scene was full of boot marks. Yes, the assailants were soldiers,” he said.
Source
http://www.workingdoghandler.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93&Itemid=1
My learned friend going by the words of Mr. Dison coupled with his background that he had headed the Uganda Police’s Dog section from 1962 to 1987, what kind of picture do you get from a man who has survived a number of bloody regimes? Was Mr. Dison in any way related to Mr. Kayiira so that he was induced to lie in favour of his family? Mr. Patrick emotions aside, we should give credit where it is due, so it is my conviction that Mr, Dison, a man who had served his nation deligently, surving political turmoil after political turmoil would have no interest whatsoever to make such false statements for the sake of the man he barely knew. Why?
Further more, given the sensitivity of the case, if it was true that Mr. Dison had made such statements whether maliciously or in a mistaken belief that he really thought that he had taken part in the investigations, the Uganda Gov’t would have been obliged to take a legal action against Mr. Dison but wapi…
Finally, you submit that if Mr. Dision really took part in the investigations as he claimed so why didn’t he refute the statement by the Ugandan police? Mr. Patrick, Uganda, unlike democratic nations, is a staggering democracy where no one can assured of full protection. Mr. Dison at his age has no interest in the case so I think has no reason to mess up with the giants. Perhaps that is how he has always lived his life, the very reason he has managed to overcome many nasty tsunamis.
In the mean time we are eagerly waiting to see if Mr. HG will succeed to get his unskewed SLY report, perhaps it will help us resolve the mystery.
