Soon after the Moses Angoria – a security guard at Quality Supermarket Naalya pulled the trigger and shot at the Toyota Mark II vehicle hitting Ainebyona Arnold Mugisha in the mouth and causing his eventual death, accessing the supermarket – even for ordinary customers was a tall order.
Eyewitnesses who were already in the supermarket at the time of the shooting say that the supermarket’s management and the security officials attached to Saracen group went into a panic and started tampering with the scene of crime before the police arrived.
“There was a middle-aged man that I suspect to be the son to the owner of the supermarket who was ordering security to chase on-lookers away while a woman wearing the light blue security uniform was washing away the blood on the ground,” an eyewitness told Matooke Republic.
During an undercover investigation by our reporters, we discovered that boda-boda riders who operate from the stage outside the supermarket had been ‘asked’ by the management of Quality not to speak to anyone about the shooting.
One of the security guards who was innocently narrating what happened to our undercover reporter was motioned to “shut up at once” by another security guard who said that “they were stopped from talking about the shooting.”
Although the Kira Division Police OC CID, OC Criminal Intelligence (CI), a team from Namugongo Police and another from Kira Division’s Homicide department arrived at the scene to carry out an investigation and recovered the murder weapon, there are fears that evidence crucial to the investigation could have been tampered with.
The Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigire told Matooke Republic that the police investigation will reveal the extent of the cover-up – if any adding that they will “furnish us with the findings in due course.”
Neither Quality Supermarket nor Saracen Uganda was willing to comment on this story because the officers who answered the companies’ phone numbers did not have the authority to speak on their behalf.