UGANDA: Abiriga's "dying declaration" identifies his killers

ABIRIGA'S "DYING DECLARATION" IDENTIFIES HIS KILLERS

CHANGE OF GUARDS - Following last week's gunning down of the Arua Municipality M.P, Hon. Abiriga, as usual security is gambling with investigations. Ugandans don't anticipate a breakthrough in investigations because that has always been the trend in all the previous incidents of political assassinations. They are now arresting social media enthusiasts yet there are some clearer leads. 

There is no doubt Hon. Abiriga was killed by those who hated him. Any serious investigations would take the trouble to identity if the victim had any grudge with anybody thus establishing the motive of the murder. Hon. Abiriga was not among the thieves (abashuma) who are sweeping the country clean. He was not involved in land grabbing which is the order of the day. He was not involved in any financial scandals or business rivalry with anyone because he ran no business deals.

His election had been disputed and challenged in court by an FDC candidate on academic grounds but the regime suppressed the case. The said FDC candidate will be a beneficiary in the bye election and most likely will reclaim his February 2016 victory. Why are investigations not focusing on this aspect? However, Abiriga never at anyone time complained against his FDC political opponent. The law of evidence identifies a Dying Declaration as a statement written or orally made by a deceased person who would otherwise have been a credible witness in their own death. Such statement is made in a belief of certain or impending death and the statement concerns the causes or circumstances of impending death. It is a general belief that a person who knows he is about to die can't lie. Abiriga had people who hated him and he publicly declared their identities thus;

".....the President likes me but those around him don't like me." February 2018 interview with NBS Television. The big question is who are "the people around" Museveni who did not like Abiriga and why.

At the burial in Arua, Sam Engola publicly told Museveni how Abiriga had confided in him that one time he (Abiriga) told off Museveni that "whenever somebody loves you, you don't love back". This implies that Abiriga believed that Museveni did not love him thus why he had been avoiding him. 

Those public statements by Abiriga do not amount to a dying declaration. However, they hinge on something similar to a dying declaration. Why would any serious investigations ignore that lead; Abiriga publicly identified people who hated him as being around Museveni. May be it is because Gen. Kalekyezi was one of such people around Museveni that he has been arrested.

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