The whereabouts of Dr Ismail Kalule remain unknown after both the army and police denied arresting him. According to his lawyer, Evans Ochieng ,Plain-clothed armed men reportedly picked up Dr Kalule from his clinic at Aldina Mosque in Old Kampala on Saturday afternoon. However, the deputy defense ministry spokesperson, Lt. Col. Deo Akiiki has distanced […]
The whereabouts of Dr Ismail Kalule remain unknown after both the army and police denied arresting him. According to his lawyer, Evans Ochieng ,Plain-clothed armed men reportedly picked up Dr Kalule from his clinic at Aldina Mosque in Old Kampala on Saturday afternoon.
However, the deputy defense ministry spokesperson, Lt. Col. Deo Akiiki has distanced the army from Dr Kalule’s arrest. He however, suspects he could be in the hands of the police force. But police spokesperson Fred Enanga also said Kalule in not in their custody.
Kalule has been in and out of jail over his alleged links to terrorists. He was first picked up in 2010 shortly after the July 2010 twin bombing in Kampala on charges of murder, terrorism and being an accessory to terrorism.
Police claimed he had aided and facilitated the prime suspects in the bombing and that they had recovered literature on manufacturing bombs from Kalule’s home in Kiwatule, a Kampala suburb.
Prosecution linked him to the July 2010 Kampala twin bombings at the Ethiopian Village restaurant in Kabalagala and Kyadondo Rugby Grounds that claimed the lives of 74 people and left scores injured.
His re-arrest comes at a time when Ugandan security is on high alert following the Dusit hotel terror attack in Nairobi, Kenya which claimed the lives of at least 14 people and left scores injured.
