Drama ensued in the middle of the mention of a murder case at Wakiso Chief Magistrates Court when one of the three suspects facing murder charges of a Senior Three student in the dock pointed to one of the people in court and said he was an accomplice in the crime.
Though the Grade One Magistrate, Happy Monica had not granted the suspects chance to make any plea given the capital nature of their case, Musa Lubowa put up his hand as a signal that he had something to say.
When granted the chance, Lubowa, a bodaboda rider said that they committed the offence with a person seated in the public gallery of the court. Asked by the judge to point at this person, he said that he was Michael Genza, in addition to pointing at him and describing his dressing code.
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Everyone in the court was amazed and looking in the direction where Lubowa was pointing, including unsuspecting Genza.
In an outrage, Lubowa uncontrollably said; “But Genza, why do you pretend? Don’t you remember that you are the one who twisted the girl’s neck and shoved sticks inside her private parts?”
Lubowa told court that Michael Genza who was seated in court, is the one who twisted the deceased’s neck causing her death. Before Genza could come to his senses, prison warders had blocked the entry to the court hall, ordered him to stand up and handcuffed him.
His plea of innocence fell on deaf ears and he was whisked away and detained at Wakiso police. He kept on shouting and calling Lubowa names for allegedly framing him, and cursing him saying, “Lubowa, what grudges do you have against me to drag me in this mess?”
The prison officers went ahead to stand in the doorway, blocking any person who would use the chance to escape as others went to have Genza handcuffed and whisked out of court.
Lubowa is charged with two counts of murder and defilement of a S.3 student of Kasengejje Senior Secondary School, Faith Kirabo. He is charged with two other people; Joyce Masembe, a housewife who was the deceased’s stepmother and her housemaid, Hadijah Kenyana.
Kirabo’s stepmother, Joyce Masembe, is said to have connived with her housemaid Kenyana and Lubowa to kill the deceased.
Lubowa the boda boda cyclist is said to have defiled the girl before killing her.
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In the ensuing shock, Richard Mugarura, the dead girl’s father and his sisters who had come to hear proceedings of the case, broke down and cried.
The trial judge adjourned the case to November 20, 2024 after the prosecutor told court that investigations were still ongoing.
The deceased’s father later said that he suspects that there could be more accomplices to her daughter’s death out there, and prayed that police investigations bring all to book.