By KGR Reporter,
The Supreme Court in Kampala has ordered the Kasese Prison authorities to transfer a Police Officer, Jayden Ashraf who was found guilty of murdering businessman Eriya Bugembe Ssebunya commonly known as Kasiwukira to Luzira Upper Prison.
Kasiwukira was killed by a speeding vehicle on October 17th, 2014 while jogging near his home in Muyenga, a Kampala suburb.
Court presided over by Justice Christopher Izama Madrama yesterday ordered the transfer of the convict so as to enable him argue against the 20year jail term that was handed to him for the murder in question.
In 2016, the late High Court Judge Wilson Masalu Musene convicted Nakungu and Jaden for murder on grounds that they had exhibited intentions of murdering the businessman.
During the trial prosecution presented to court video footage showing that Jaden had attempted to kill Kasiwukira on two different occasions without succeeding.
Justice Musene also established that Nakungu owned the vehicle that Jaden used to knock Kasiwukira.
He subsequently sentenced the duo to 20 years in Luzira Prisons for murder. He acquitted Kasiwukira’s widow Sarah Nabikolo on grounds that “her name was never mentioned anywhere in the video clip that was presented to court about the alleged plot to kill Kasiwukira despite the fact that a State Witness, Richard Byamukama implicated her for financing the attack on her husband. END