JINJA-UGANDA/NEWSDAY; A Jinja city based journalist attached to Kiira FM in Jinja City has been arrested in connection to last month’s murder of a businessman.
Several other scribes are being sought as suspects.
Jackie Nabatanzi who is seven months pregnant was picked on Saturday from duty as she covered the Uganda National Agricultural Education Show at Jinja Showground.
She is being held in custody at Nalufenya Police Station. Ten people so far been arrested, including family members and residents, and are being detained in Kampala and Nalufenya.
The arrest of Nabatanzi follows the killing of Jinja businessman, Shaban Malole on May 14 by unknown assailants who were travelling on a motorcycle.
Until his death, Malole was in support of his family’s efforts to lease the land to an investor for 40 years to construct a sugar factory, a move his siblings said was aimed at locking them out of their father’s estate.
A colleague to Nabatanzi, Ms Milly Tibigwayo who works with Apex FM said ; ” Nabatanzi received a call in the middle of a press conference at one of the stalls within the showground, and excused herself. Immediately after she stepped out, she was surrounded by Policemen who accused her of being in possession of a stolen phone and whisked her to Nalufenya Police Station,.”
“But at the Police Station, the story changed to using her phone to call somebody who was eventually shot dead. Police said they believe she was the last person who called the deceased,” Ms Tibigwayo said.
Councillor arrested.
Mr Abbey Mwase, a councilor for Jinja City Southern Division and chairperson of Jinja Tenants’ Association, was detained last week as another person of interest in the gruesome murder.
Journalists to storm police
Jinja based journalists have threatened to storm Nalufenya to protest until their colleague is freed.
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