Kampala – The Ugandan army was by Tuesday still holding Maj Herbert Muramagi, the Internal Security Organisation director for Marines, four days after his arrest.
Muramagi was picked up last Friday by military Intelligence officers and police detectives who have up till now found “nothing of evidential value” during searches at his home in Kiwatule, a Kampala suburb.
According to Ugandan media, Muramagi has been in detention at the Senior Officers’ Mess at Makindye Military Barracks, where he has not been arraigned in court; and his charges have not been stated.
Responsible authorities in Uganda were not ready to discuss the issue.
“I am still waiting to know the preferred charges [against him],” deputy military spokesperson Robert Ngabirano said.
Efforts to contact Brig Ronnie Balya, the ISO director-general to whom Muramagi reports, were unfruitful.
According to sources, copies of field reports from the three separate searches on February 28, two of them at the director’s offices at ISO headquarters in Nakasero and the neighbouring Kampala Serena hotel the team, including Detective Superintendent of Police Patrick Wacha, reported that: “Nil; nothing of evidential value recovered”.
A senior security official, who chose to remain anonymous said the impugned land acquisition is an old case that was likely invoked as an excuse to arrest Muramagi for another “supposed crime”.
Muramagi is only being permitted fewfamily visits.
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