http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1100686/-/c5a2fcz/-/index.html

This bit looks ‘interesting’ …

“The suspect said he left the bedroom, went to a store and picked a hammer which he used to hit him [Kato] while he was still in bed …”

So, let’s see … someone in a room with me wants to rape me, so I leave that person in the room and go out to ‘a store’ (another room or a shop) and then go back to the room where the person who wishes to rape me is in bed? Hmmmm.

I wonder what Kato’s version of events is? Oh no – just remembered, he’s dead! He can’t say anything.

But this is no normal murder; even you know that, ‘Maazi’ dearest.

By the way, how’s Muhame these days? This murder may have saved him some cash (1.5M UGX, I believe). Lucky fellow!

I think your analysis has merit. In a way, it suggests that homophobia (i.e. the irrational self-hatred of the suspect, fuelled perhaps by the hateful rhetoric of others) may be a factor here.

While I do remain somewhat sceptical about the ‘explanation’ offered so far (after all, we’ve had the Bahati Bill, the ‘pastoral porn shows’, the ‘Rolling Stone’, the threats to Kato and his fellow plaintiffs, the general homophobic ‘background noise’), the calm and balanced way in which the Inspector General has presented the situation so far is to be welcomed.

It appears to have been perpetrated by a man of general low character rather than a religious zealot.

It is theoretical, and reasonable, that men with ambivalent sexual drives experience homosexual panic in such situations and become violent as a way destroy the thing they fear most in themselves.

Not convinced that this FB guy bludgeons people to death with hammers – perhaps it’s another Enock N., or the true perpetrator is not Enock N. at all.

Also: note that a HAMMER, not an iron bar, is cited as the weapon. Does this mean that this murder is not ‘another iron bar’ crime, after all?

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

While you and your friends are in the UK indulging in fantacies, law enforcement agents are working in Uganda to solve a murder case. A suspect has been arrested and he made a confession. He will soon be charged to court so that our independent judiciary look into the matter. Beyond the conspiracy theories, your gut feelings and fantacies, if you have any tangible evidence that the law enforcement agencies are not being truthful, please make them public. Otherwise, it might be a good idea to turn your attention back to mundane issues in good old England. BTW, I hope you are coping with the weather over there. I am aware it is usually chilly this time of the year