By Editorial,
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has asked the Court of Appeal to dismiss an appeal in which Godfrey Wamala alias Troy is challenging a 14-year jail term handed to him for his role in the death of Musician Moses Ssekibogo commonly known as Mowzey Radio.
Mr. Wamala was convicted in October 2019 by Lady Justice Jane Frances Abodo on the basis of evidence to sustain charges of manslaughter.
The evidence indicated that on January 22, 2018, Mowzey Radio visited De Bar, a hangout owned by one George Egesa in Entebbe at the invitation of a female friend Pamela Musiimire.
In the Company of renowned producer Washington and a colleague identified as Muhammed Ategek, Mowzey joined Pamela, her sister Rina Namugumya and friends among others.
The group sat at the same table but along the way, the late Radio cracked a bad joke, branding Egesa a poor man who could not afford to buy drinks before he bought a bottle of black-label whisky which he went on to serve across the table; rest of it was, in a playful manner, splashed on the table and those around him.
However, the prosecution’s evidence shows that this act angered Egesa who asked Hassan to throw him out of De Bar. It’s the Prosecution’s case that at this point, Wamala grabbed Radio horizontally and hit him on the ground by his head.
According to the Prosecution, Wamala went into hiding and kept eluding police calls throughout the time when Radio was hospitalized before surrendering himself to the police through his sister Jackie kayaga Muwanga who notified the Police about his hideout in Kyengera.
In response, Wamala asked the court to adjourn the matter saying that he was given an incomplete record from the High Court which didn’t show the evidence of the first Prosecution witness to enable his new lawyer Sylvia Namawejje to ably follow up. END