'I Know Who Killed Kaweesi'

I know who killed Afande Kaweesi
Kaweesi was killed by journalists!
Journalists described Kaweesi as a source who became a friend, who tirelessly fought to defend them from brutality by the Police Force
Yet the same journalists failed to task the Police and all investigating organs to do more to apprehend the criminals taking the lives of Ugandans in a seemingly visible pattern
Journalists failed to tell the story of why Muslim clerics were being targeted
Journalists failed to tell the story of why the criminals favored the use of motorcycles
Journalists failed to question the police on the futile investigations, unreleased reports and rampant insecurity
My fellow journalists, we killed Kaweesi!

I know who killed Afande Kaweesi
Kaweesi was killed by the Police and other security organs
The Police and its apparatus arrived at crime scene after crime scene, gathered evidence, produced composite images of suspects, conducted investigations and DID NOT APPREHEND THE CRIMINALS
The president said it;
‘You people always have clues leading to the criminals and yet because you have been infiltrated by criminal gangs, we have come to this…’ – Museveni
The IGP, CIID, CDF, CGP and the DISOs, GISOs, PISOs the president was talking about; you killed Kaweesi!

I know who killed Afande Kaweesi
Kaweesi was killed by the government he served
The president said public servants killed Kaweesi because they frustrated development projects like the installation of CCTV cameras in all major urban centers and highways through their incessant demands for higher salaries
Kaweesi was killed by the government that purchased posh air conditioned vehicles for its key personnel in sensitive security positions rather than securing armored vehicles. (The luxury of armored vehicles was spared for the Fountain of Honor and rioters!)
Kaweesi was killed by a government that accepted half-baked solutions and half-truths in the name of crime preventers as solutions for its glaring security gaps
Government of Uganda, you killed Kaweesi!

I know who killed Afande Kaweesi
Kaweesi killed himself
Kaweesi killed himself when he failed to establish a force competent enough to combat the violent crime that took his life; a force that would not pledge investigations and arrests of criminals every time a Ugandan was brutally murdered by gunmen on a motorcycle. (Kaweesi acted in various training and Human Resource capacities within the force and could take credit for the personnel’s competencies and blame for its inefficiencies)
Kaweesi killed himself when he refused to believe that his life was in any more danger than any other policeman doing his job. (Refer to Umar Kashaka’s interview with AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi published in Sunday Vision)
Sadly, Kaweesi killed Kaweesi!

I know who killed Afande Kaweesi
Kaweesi was killed by You and I
You and I killed Kaweesi when we looked the other way as Muslim clerics were gunned down in cold blood
You and I killed Kaweesi when we refused to hold the security forces accountable for the alarming insecurity and crippling boldness of criminals terrorising us
You and I killed Kaweesi killed when we buried our heads in the sand and refused to believe that insecurity was ‘Coming To A Street Near You’
You and I killed Kaweesi when we made fun of the composite images and all efforts by our Police officers to apprehend crime. We made fun because we won’t trust our Police and we would rather crack jokes than undergo the baptism of fire that would accompany making the ‘Investigations Are Ongoing Department’ accountable!
You and I killed Kaweesi!
I know who killed Afande Kaweesi

Poem by Daniel Mumbere, TV host at Urban Television.