By Spy Uganda
Kampala: On Monday this week, the Director Of Public Prosecutions (DPP)’s office led by lawyer Jonathan Muwaganya sent slain city tycoon Prince Henry Katanga’s family into total meltdown when they revealed that the evidence they’ve gathered so far pin widow Molly Katanga as the key suspect having found her finger prints corresponding with those found on the killer gun.
The prosecution went ahead and told court that even the gun powder collected from the scene of crime corresponds very well with the said gun which bares Molly Katanga’s DNA.
This sent shock waves to the relatives of the man who had filled the court room to full capacity. It was against that submission among other issues, including having issued four criminal summons against her in vain, that moved the court issue an arrest warrant.
Prosecution told court that since she’s the prime suspect, she may need to be assisted to come to court to be formally charged and then seek for court bail based on her health condition.
The latest updates from Nakawa Magistrate’s Court now is that having issued a warrant of arrest against widow Molly to be brought to court dead or alive, her lawyers are set to deliver her to court voluntarily this morning anytime from now.
It is worth remembering that same lawyers delivered her daughter(Martha Nkwanzi) to court only after it issued a warrant of arrest. They had been telling court for months that she had been hospitalized at Rose Well hospital after she gave birth and was unable to appear. However, after several months of Ping-Pong, court issued a warrant of arrest. A day later, the lawyers produced her and she has since been charged and remanded.
This morning, she’s among the four that are appearing before the High Court in Kampala after Nakawa magistrate’s court committed them for trial at high Court.
According to her lawyers, Molly has reportedly been hospitalized at IHK since November 2, 2023, for injuries she allegedly sustained on the day of her husband’s shooting.
The court wants Molly to join her daughters, Martha Nkwanzi Katanga and Patricia Kakwanza for their alleged involvement in their father’s murder on November 2, 2023, at their home located at Chwa II Road in Nakawa division. This committal follows the completion of police investigations.
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Kakwanza and Nkwanzi are charged with destroying evidence while Amanyire (domestic worker at the deceased’s home) and Otai (a nursing officer who was called to the deceased’s home after the murder) are charged as accessories to the alleged murder of Katanga by his wife Molly Katanga on November 2, 2023.
In accordance with Section 102 of the Penal Code Act, conviction for the offense of destroying evidence carries a potential sentence of seven years imprisonment.
Section 393 of the Penal Code Act stipulates that being found guilty of being an accessory after the fact could result in imprisonment of up to three years.
Background Of The Saga
The saga began on November 2, 2023, when the nation woke up to the shocking news of the death of tycoon Henry Katanga who was found in a pool of blood.
The cause of his death remains controversial with his biological daughters (Martha Nkwanzi Katanga, Patricia Kakwanza) and wife Molly Bunanukye Katanga (widow now) pointing to domestic violence, while other close relatives claim that family property disputes may have led to his tragic death causing a deep division within the family.
Since the investigations and court proceedings began, key suspects in the gruesome murder including Martha Nkwanzi, Patricia Kakwanza , Dr. Charles Otai, and George Amanyire, a domestic worker at the deceased’s residence have all been remanded to Luzira Prison while Molly Katanga has not been formally charged as she has not responded to all the court summons issued against her.
Up to date, Molly Katanga has remained at IHK apparently recovering from surgeries performed after she was allegedly injured during the violent fight that claimed her husband’s life.
According to prosecution, Molly Katanga, with malice aforethought, killed her husband on November 2 at Mbuya, Chwa 2, in Nakawa Division, with the help of their daughter Nkwanzi.
Furthermore, on the same day, Nkwanzi and Kakwanza are accused of removing or destroying potential evidence at the crime scene, with the intention of preventing its use in judicial proceedings.
The incident happened after an alleged misunderstanding with his wife whom he worked with at their procurement and supplies firm called MERGE which had penetrated the system and would transact with government agencies with huge classified budgets.
A police report referenced SD21/02/11/2023 at Bugolobi police station indicates that Katanga was shot at close range and that no bullets and fragments were recovered after Katanga’s body which was delivered at the city mortuary on November 2.
The report further indicates that Katanga’s body was wrapped in a mattress cover, stuffed in a vehicle, and transported to Mulago hospital mortuary.
The details of who moved the body remain a subject of ongoing police investigations.
Police said it retrieved a pistol number UG1622200061CZ99 compact that is suspected to have been used in the commission of the crime.
Shortly after his death, inside sources revealed that Katanga was allegedly murdered hours before he appended his signature on a WILL that he had prepared a week earlier and kept it in a safe box inside his office.
Sources further noted that Katanga had prepared the necessary paperwork documenting all his wealth and had only shared that secret with his sister, Naome Nyangweso and his lawyer.
At the time of his death, another source within the family revealed that Katanga had just made a transaction of shs16 billion.
“Besides working with Molly, he had other different lines of making his own money including money lending. He had so far gotten shs16 billion,” a source who preferred anonymity revealed at the time.
Katanga had been taking care of a number of orphans of his dead siblings and loved them as his own children including the two children of his sister Naome; Timothy Nyangweso and Marjorie Nyangweso.
Relatives highly anticipate that Katanga was planning to distribute all his property equally in a WILL among his biological children and other orphans which could have annoyed whoever pulled the trigger to end his life.
“The plan was to kill him that very day because there was no time to wait since he was planning to leave home and sign the papers,” another relative said.
According to Naome, Katanga’s lawyer was aware of the death threats that his client was facing and his death did not surprise him that is why he(Katanga) was racing against time to finish the WILL which was never a success.
While as Katanga could have prepared and signed the WILL a little earlier, he was busy with arrangements for giveaway and wedding functions for his foster daughter Patricia alias Tricia for over two weeks.
Tricia is among the suspects, and she was remanded to Luzira prison on murder charges. At the time of the shooting, Tricia confirmed to police that she was present and revealed how her father and mother got a misunderstanding before she heard a gunshot.
Katanga was one of the Ankole princes while his wife Molly is a relative and close confidant to key government and security officials who are allegedly trying to save her from facing murder charges. Watch the space…..
