Man Jose Kayima
Tomorrow two key witnesses in the pastor Robert Kayanja case are set to appear at Mwanga 2 Court and thus an SOS goes out to the Uganda Prisons officials to deliver them on time to the court to let justice take its due course.
The last time around, Prisons officials claimed to have forgotten to bring key witnesses in Pastor Kayanja’s defamation case at the previous court session.
This raised eyebrows as to whether it is a habit or is it simply a one-off scenario where Uganda Prisons failed to deliver suspects and delayed justice.
As the case seems to drag on for eternity due to one reason or the other, Reagan Ssentongo and Khalifa Labib were due to appear at Mwanga 2 Court on 12th January but didn’t, forcing the Magistrate to adjourn the case.
However in an ironic turn of events, no sooner had Chief Magistrate Adams Byarugaba ruled that the case was adjourned than the bus carrying the two appeared and delivering the two.
This strange occurrence raises eyebrows since the two are to appear for bail application in Masindi on 25th January with sources claiming that there is a plot to hide them so that they don’t testify in the Kayanja case.
It should be remembered that their bail application had also been adjourned to the 25th of January thus the saga at Mwanga 2 Court raises eyebrows.
Well, one wonders if the incident of not showing up in court is not part of the old big plot of sneaking them out of the country since they are key witnesses in the Case at Mwanga II and convicts in the case at Masindi High Court.
Last year on the 19th of December Pastor Ssenyonga and his cohorts went into panic mode after their plot to get bail for two convicts and later sneak them out of the country was exposed.
According to reliable sources, Ssenyonga tasked his lawyers from Ojambo and Ojambo Advocates to do everything humanly possible to get bail for Reagan Ssentongo and Khalifa Labib.
They were sentenced to six years for aggravated robbery and assault crimes and are currently pushing for bail at Masindi High Court in front of Judge Issa Sserunkuuma.
The two former workers at Pastor Robert Kayanja’s farm in Kiryandongo, who turned into his tormentors, were found guilty of robbery and assault. It is said that they attacked Mr. Patrick Turyatemba at his home in Kigumba, beat him up, and sprayed him with pepper.
The accused persons were arrested and found in position with pepper spray in their room following the incident that happened on 25th April 2020 and Chief Magistrate, Her Worship Lucy Kabahuma gave them a punishment equivalent to six years with the one year they have spent on remand.
Represented by their lawyers from Ojambo and Ojambo Advocates, they were denied bail in late December 2023 as their sureties Francis Bigirwa and one Sheikh submitted uncoordinated documents, hence Judge Sserunkuuma fuming and eventually adjourning the case to January 25th.
This sent panic in the camp of lawyers Humphrey Tumwesigye and Robert Ojambo representing Pastor Ssenyonga’s former employees as the first step of the plot to get the two bail and sneak out of the country is now postponed.
The two together with other youths led by former Pastor Jackson Ssenyonga’s bodyguard Israel Wassawa stormed Miracle Centre demanding already paid salaries on top of alleging that they were sodomised.
However, the medical reports proved otherwise hence being arrested for giving Police false information and tarnishing the name of Pastor Kayanja, a case they are still battling at Mwanga II Court up to date.
