Hussein Taewaiko Dak. PHOTO/ POLICE HANDOUT
When news reached police in the wee hours of February 11 that unknown assailants had attacked the home of Pamela Ruth Tumwebaze, the director of students’ affairs at Uganda Christian University (UCU) in Mukono, they swung into action without missing a beat. Pamela lived in Gwafu West Village, Seeta Ward, Goma Division, Seeta, Mukono District, together with her two sons, Elijah Matsiko, 13, and Noah Matsiko, 9, and a housemaid, Sharifa Lwatale, 20. Police in Mukono, acting on tip-offs from neighbours, rushed to the crime scene. They cordoned it off to prevent tampering and began gathering crucial evidence, in a bid not to let the trail go cold.
At around 6 am, a team from the Directorate of Forensics, Criminal Investigations, and personnel from Defence Intelligence and Security (DIS), formerly Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence, arrived to establish who had slain the university dean. A senior police detective told this publication that while documenting the scene, they realised the deceased’s laptop and phone were missing. “On February 12, the officers from the Joint Anti-Terrorism Taskforce (JATT) started tracking the phone of the deceased by extracting the call data analysis and establishing its location point, but it was off the whole day,” the detective told this publication yesterday.
