As I once said about two years ago, one person sat down and wrote a list of Ugandan Muslim clerics. He then sent his "boys" to assassinate the people on that list one by one. The hitlist was made public by the police in 2013, and anyone could follow the criminals deplorable "achievements" as they daringly continued their mission of murdering the people on the list. The argument that the cleric were fighting themselves didn't hold because there was the written list of those scheduled for assassination, and the document targeted a particular group of clerics. Those on the other side of the known wrangles were surprisingly untouched. The motorcycle method of assassinations then became the mode of operation for several other "professional assassinations" in the last few years. Among others there was the bloody murder of businessman Kasiwukira, Justice Joan Kagezi, recently a UPDF major/cleric, and now a senior police officer Andrew Kaweesi (RIP) last Friday. What is clear is that besides rhetorical talk, the political class appears helpless. They are clueless of who is behind these murders or what to do about it. Some, including the police lesdership, are accusing the police force for possibly implementing the murders. This is an institution that has literally hundreds of arrested motorcycles in police stations at any given time. Officers have access to the required weaponry, can easily use state resources to gather intelligence on any targets, and have trained tactical personnel. If men from within the Uganda Police Force (which today is militarized) are behind the grisly murders, then nobody is safe. The attacks do not seem to have a political motivation at this stage. However, the solution requires a multi-agency investigation and a serious dedicated man hunt. No single security agency can be trusted to carry out this investigation alone. Nobody yet knows which one is the true rotten egg? The gang, especially its head, has to be identified and taken out before he/she gets other ambitions.
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