The General Court Martial (GCM) chaired by Lt. Gen Andrew Gutti has granted bail to Special Police Constable Faisal Katende, a junior Police officer who was remanded in due kidnapping and repatriating two Rwandan Nationals.
Katende who was arrested in 2017 alongside Nickson Karunhanga Agasirwe, the former commandant of Police’s Special Operations Unit and has since been on remand has been released on bail after he presented substantial sureties in the court.
The two are battling the charges with Joel Aguma, the former commandant of the Police’s Professional Standards Unit, James Magada, Benon Atwebembeire, Abel Tumukunde, Amon Kwarisima, a Rwandan Rene Rutagungira (an army officer from Rwanda), and a Congolese, Pacifique Bahati Mugenga alias Ilunga Monga.
Prosecution alleges that the nine accused persons unlawfully kidnapped Jackson Kalemera alias Ndinga and (Lieutenant) Joel Mutabazi and delivered them to Rwanda without their consent. Mutabazi was a former bodyguard of Rwandan President, Paul Kagame.
Prosecution states that on October 25, 2013, at Kamengo in Mpigi district along the Kampala-Masaka road, while in unlawful possession of military ammunitions, which are ordinarily a monopoly of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces, the accused persons conveyed Kalemera and Mutabazi to Rwanda.
