Yesterday, CCTV footage that was released with a voice that is believed to be the one for a prominent muslim sheikh relieved gun-wielding men, others traveling in a police patrol car ransacking and beating people at the home.
On Friday 2, at around 7am news circulated indicating how one of the homes belonging to a prominent Moslem sheikh had been raided and two of his family members shot dead.
The two members (not dead) were later identified as one of Sheikh Sulaiman Yunus Kamoga’s sons but at a time found at one of his homes in Kawempe Tuula, when unknown security personnels allegedly from the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces stormed and raided their home.
Addressing the media at the police headquarters in Naguru, the police spokes person Fred Enanga noted however, that the police had earlier on received reports concerning human rights violation connected to an Islamic teaching facility prompting rough investigations that linked to the
Moslem cleric’s home.
Apparently, Sheikh Kamoga’s home had been turned into an illegal Islamic teaching facility housing over 32 children including youths and children ranging from 14 -28 years but with out an operational license.
Upon ascertaining the matter, the police through its operation stormed his home before it could be given access to the premises by the administrators who didn’t want any public eye.
“We received a report from a mother of a one Barrak Mukibi a senior two student at st Lawrence London College expressing concern of how her son was mistreated and how he pleaded via a phone call requesting that his father a one Twaha Mukibi forgives him and takes him back to
school, Enanga alluded.
Emphasising to the fact that the reports were the only reason as to why they expanded further into the matter and that investigations were still underway to find out the objective behind the
facility.
He clarified therefore that they were not targeting the moslem clerics, but rather just received compaints from parents that they children were abducted and taken to illegal training and thus prompting their action.
According to the police mouth piece, it was not that most of the time those illegal facilities operated, operated but without tension and suspicion among the public and in main cases their activities are linked to terrorist groups in the Congo.
Enanga thus urged that moslem clerics come clean and apply for licences in order to operate these facilities.
On the hand Enanga also noted that a one sheikh Kalule was also arrested by the CMI on suspect of being in possession on equipment used to make home made explosive and that he had a background on the recent terrorist attacks.
