BY JOY ANYAKUN
Adams Kasujja 40, a resident of Nansana in Wakiso district remains on the run and being hunted by Police for “committing unnatural offences” on addition to jumping bail. The mechanical engineer disappeared after being charged with carnal knowledge with a person against nature.
The case; KLA-00-CR-CO-0022-2021 is before Buganda road chief magistrate’s court. It is alleged that Kasujja engaged in homosexuality acts with one Paul Kakooza, contrary to section 145 of the penal code act. However, Kakooza was 36 years before he died.
Kasujja was first arrested on September 30, 2021 after Frank Kasumba, the deceased’s brother filed a case at Nansana police station, accusing him of causing Kakooza’s death.
Kasumba was irked when he saw videos, chats and naked pictures of the pair in the deceased’s phone. With that he confirmed that Kasujja and Kakooza were in a sexual relationship that might have caused his brother’s sickness and death.
“My brother was diagnosed with stage four anal cancer which we believe resulted from his involvement in homosexuality,” Kasumba narrated, adding; “Paul had abandoned those immoral acts and embraced a straight life but Adams kept luring him to Rock Catarina bar where we heard that gay groups gathered to binge on sex. That was why that bar was closed.”
Kasumba believes, Adams escalated his brother’s obsession with homosexuality. He also battled high blood pressure and died from Kisigula Medical Center.
After Kasujja’s arrest, he was produced in Buganda road court before Justice Moses Nabende remanded him to Luzira prison untill December 14, the same year when he was released on bail. He appeared before the magistrate a month later and the hearing was postponed, giving the prosecution side time to gather more implicating evidence.
However, during course of trial, in 2022, many cases were put on halt to allow courts of law handle election related cases. This was after the 2021 general elections. Kasujja’s case was scheduled for November 24, 2022 but on that day the magistrate was absent. It was adjourned to March 23, 2023 but Kasujja did not appear in court. He kept jumping bail, prompting the magistrate to issue an arrest warrant.
Uganda police force under the criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters at Kibuli launched a hunt for Kasujja vide file number; SD REF; 107/07/06/2023. Corporal Godfrey Wagengo appeals to whoever has information which may lead to Kasujja’s arrest to pass it on to the nearest police station. According to Wagengo, more charges have been slapped against Kasujja, among which include; supporting and promoting homosexuality and jumping bail.
Meanwhile, the disgruntled Kasumba blames Kasujja’s disappearance on Buganda road court saying, he pleaded with the magistrate to deny the accused bail on grounds that he committed a grave offence that led to his brother’s death but his request was rejected.
“I suspected that man would disappear, reason I pleaded with the magistrate to keep him in prison but my plea fell on deaf ears,” he says. Kasumba is quick to add that his family seeks justice for their dead son.
“Such immoral people should be punished heavily because they lure young people into homosexuality and ruin their lives,” he says.
According to impeccable sources, Kasujja’s mother is also set to testify against her son in court, accusing him of bringing her family’s name into disrepute. In her side testimony, Kasujja’s immoral behavior is believed to have started way back when he was in secondary school. “He joined bad groups that lured him into homosexuality. He was even suspended from two schools but he never relented,” Kasujja’s mother is quoted as saying.
“I had gone an extra mile to find for him a beautiful girl thinking marriage would rehabilitate him but I was wrong,” she’s quoted saying, adding that; “Adams would leave his wife at home and spend days away with homosexuals. I am at my wits end.” She hopes if her son is arrested and convicted, perhaps prison will help to rehabilitate him.
Homosexuality is illegal and remains an offence in Uganda, that has been in the criminal books since independence and sealed by the 1995 constitution. The offence was strengthened after President Yoweri Museveni assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Act in May 2023. It imposes death penalty, life imprisonment or up to 20 years in prison for recruitment, promotion and funding of same-sex activities. Anyone convicted of attempted aggravated homosexuality faces a 14-year sentence. The president described gay people as deviations from normal.
Speaker of Parliament Hon. Anita Annet Among hailed the president for assenting to the Bill that protects the sanctity of family values and culture.
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