By Our Reporters
Robert Senfuka, a city lawyer working with Nakacwa & Co Advocates, has criticized Uganda Law Society (ULS) President Simon Peter Kinobe and his executive for not doing enough to defend the orphans of Ronald Sebulime who Police agrees was murdered on Sunday at the instigation of ICT Minister Aida Nantaba. Senfuka told the media Thursday afternoon that he and other lawyers are very disappointed with Kinobe’s failure to realize that time has come for the ULS to do more than just issuing press statements whenever a government official acts with similar impunity. “It’s the duty of ULS under its mandate to take lead when such things happen including taking legal action on behalf of victims like Sebulime’s orphans in this case. As ULS members, we are disappointed with our leadership because they are shying away from their duty of giving free legal services to such vulnerable persons,” Senfuka said. He says they are going to commence criminal proceedings against Nantaba under private prosecution since the DPP doesn’t seem likely to do anything. He says the contradictions in Nantaba’s public statements clearly show that there is much more about this murder that must come out during cross examination once Nantaba is put on full trial. He says they are not political and don’t politically have anything against Nantaba but they must do something that will deter other Ministers to connive with police and kill innocent people in cold blood in future. He says all the circumstantial evidence in place so far indicates that Nantaba and police knowingly killed an innocent person whose orphans are entitled to legal protection by the ULS or its members. The fact that Sebulime had just settled in Matuga is circumstantially indicative that he was innocently asking for directions to Kabimbiri since he was a new man in the area, says Senfuka. He adds that the food and other children items found in his bag is further proof that the man was indeed on his way to St Andrews SS in Kabimbiri whose authorities have since confirmed there was visitation day and Sebulime was expected. The other intriguing fact is that as he sought for directions at the market, Sebulime adjusted his helmet to have direct eye contact with the women who were directing him to the school. Senfuka says all these facts point to circumstantial evidence that should have indicated to police that this was an innocent man. He says there is need to go to court so that many of the things police seemingly wanted to hide from the public come out through cross examination. “If it was not social media and the mainstream media acting vigilantly and raising the hard questions the police narrative that Sebulime was a terrorist trying to assassinate the Minister would by now be the official record being fed on the public. They have been forced to own up so far because of the pressure by the media but you can be sure there is much more they are continuing to cover up. We are determined to unearth everything through the court process we are going to be undertaking,” Senfuka said.
