Police is looking for Milton Mumbere, a cleaner at Dejavu Bar in Kansanga where singer AK 47 allegedly collapsed in the washrooms before he was pronounced dead at Nsambya Hospital on Monday night.
“We want him to shed light on the circumstances leading to AK 47’s death, since all accounts indicate that he is the one who saw AK 47 on the washroom’s floor and alerted friends,” Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango said.
“Unfortunately he has no phone so we have not traced him yet, since the bar was closed to carry out investigations,” Onyango added.
However, the cop was quick to add that no one is a suspect at the moment, pending results of the postmortem. But Dejavu manager Stephen Kisenyi is in police custody. He was summoned to police to record a statement and was held to establish contacts of other employees and help with investigations, but no charges have been preferred against him.
“It is the post mortem that can guide us on whether he passed away after the falling or to treat this as a murder case,” he said.
“The post mortem is ready, but the doctor in charge hasn’t yet signed it off. We shall inform you when we get it,” he said.
There were false reports on some online media outlets that Police had arrested some Team No Sleep members over the singer’s death, but only the Dejavu manager is in police custody.
Singer Diamond Oscar was among the first people on the scene and he together with friends drove the singer to the nearby Rock Clinic in Kansanga, but doctors advised them to take AK 47 to Nsambya hospital where he was pronounced dead.
There were reports that the singer had been held by police to assist with investigations, but these reports are false as Matooke Republic saw the singer, together with Team No Sleep manager Jeff Kiwanuka, under whose crew AK 47 was a member, at the late singer’s vigil at National Theatre.
The singer will be laid to rest this Thursday afternoon at his ancestral home on Mityana Road.