The police have backed off plans to summon the father of the late Jacob Oulanyah, Members of Parliament and other people, who allegedly made statements that the former Speaker of Parliament was poisoned.
This was revealed yesterday, 25th April, 2022 by the Uganda Police Mouthpiece, Fred Enanga.
Enanga said detectives decided to start with gathering other information about the case and they would summon people probably later.
“The detectives took a decision to first focus on gathering information before summoning anyone,” Enanga said.
Two weeks ago, Mr Enanga named Mr Okori, Minister for ICT Chris Baryomunsi, Kilak South legislator Gilbert Olanya, National Unity Platform party leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, among the people they intended to interrogate.
Others were Aruu North MP Santa Okot, former Tourism minister Godfrey Kiwanda, Dokolo South MP Felix Okot Ogong, and popular northern Uganda musician Bosmic Otim.
On April 11, police spokesman Fred Enanga said they were to summon anyone, including Mr Nathan Okori, the deceased’s father, who made allegations that Oulanyah was poisoned.
The police U-turn about the summonses comes days after government officials, including the Internal Affairs minister, Maj Gen (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire, and religious leaders, described it as inhumane for the detectives to summon Mr Okori because he was still mourning the death of his son.
