Following the story Campusbee published yesterday about an alleged confessiom from Matthew Kirabo, the prime suspect in former Makerere University student Desire Mirembe’s murder, we have received an outpouring of feedback from Matthew’s friends and family disputing much of the story.
An uncle of Matthew’s who contacted us denies the making of the said confession and states that his niece bears torture marks on both his hands following his transfer from the Central Police Station in Kampala to Nalufenya Police Station in Jinja.
The uncle adds that if there is any confession at all from the suspect, then it was tortured out of him.
A friend of Matthew’s says his lawyers on Thursday last week secured a release order from the Magistrates Court at Nakawa but it was ignored by Police who proceeded to secretly transfer him to Nalufenya.
It is from Nalufenya that the said confession was allegedly extracted from Matthew. The friend wonders why “they are claiming that Matthew all of a sudden made a confession after being suspiciously taken to Jinja yet he has been saying nothing ever since he was arrested.”
Further, the friend disputes that Mattew was to be tried in a Jinja Court yesterday yet by the time the Court was supposed to sit, he had already been transferred again back to CPS. Apparently, the suspect’s lawyers arrived in Jinja just in time before Matthew could sign the alleged confession.
Campusbee umderstands that the courts are currently in vacation, so the only possible way of doing hearings is after a party in the suit has filed for a certificate of urgency and the same has been duly granted.
The friend affirms that on the fateful Friday when Desire was killed, he [the friend] was with Matthew at Church for prayers and that he left at 2:00am. By the friend’s account, there is no possibility that Matthew set foot in Jinja on the night in question.
Pressed on which church they were at, the friend first hesitates until he reluctantly mentions Deliverence Church, Makerere. He ends by imploring Campusbee to “make an apology” for the story published earlier which he says contains a lot on factual errors.
The friend up to now insists that Matthew is being held at CPS. Attempts to speak to Fred Enanga the police spokesperson where futile as repeated calls on his known mobile number went unheeded to.
Campusbee will bring you any developments in this intriguing case.
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