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Protests as Rwandan Authorities hand-over Body of Ugandan Businessman

Sophie Mutesi | UNN Times ReporterbySophie Mutesi | UNN Times Reporter
January 24, 2023
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Protests as Rwandan Authorities hand-over Body of Ugandan Businessman

Rwandan authorities handed over Jack Turyahikayo's body on Monday.

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MBARARA –Rwandan security on Monday handed over the body of a Ugandan businessman who was gunned down for suspected smuggling last week.

Rwandan security shot dead 50-year-old Jack Turyahikayo alias Rwakigizi, a businessman and resident of Karera village, Kashekye parish, Kamwezi sub-county, Rukiga district at around 8:30pm on January 17, 2023, at the Uganda-Rwanda border of Nyakisa hill.

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The Rwandan operatives opened fire at Turyahikayo just about 50 metres inside Mpororo village, Kashekye parish in Kamwezi sub-county. He was returning from Rwanda where he had gone to sell plates and fled back into Uganda when the Rwandans tried to apprehend him. After shooting the deceased, the Rwandan operatives crossed into Uganda and carried his body back to Rwanda.

On Monday evening, the Rwandan authorities handed over the deceased’s body to their Ugandan counterparts at the no man’s land of Buziba in Kamwezi sub-county.

Stephen Gasana – the Mayor of the Nyagatare district, and Jean Bosco Dusengimana, the Nyagatare District Police Commander led the Rwandan delegation while Fred Nayebare Kyamuzigyita, the Rukiga Resident District Commissioner led the Ugandan delegations comprising his deputy, Zadock Kamusiime, Hussein Niwagaba, the Rukiga District Police Commander, Robert Mbabazi Kakwerere, Rukiga District LC5 Chairman and Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Sabitti, Commanding Officer of the 33 Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) battalion Irenga that covers Ntungamo and Rukiga districts.

Tempers flared when Gasana claimed that Rwandan operatives shot dead Turyahikayo in Tabarwe inside Rwanda in self-defence. He claimed that Turyahikayo together with five others who were armed with stones and other traditional tools tried to harm the operatives who had intercepted them prompting them to fight back.

Kyamuzigyita, Kamusiime, and Kakwerere couldn’t have any of this. They tasked their Rwandan counterpart to present evidence showing that Turyahikayo indeed attempted to harm the operatives. They also demanded an explanation as to why Rwandan security authorities crossed to Ugandan soil, shot dead a Ugandan, and carried his body back to Rwanda. They questioned why Rwandan government authorities have the same answer since shootings of this nature started in 2019.

As Gasana struggled to give answers, Kyamuzigyita, Kamusiime, and Kakwerere demanded that he makes an apology to Uganda and explain if Rwanda will compensate the family of the deceased. Gasana declined to apologize and instead hailed Rwandan security for protecting its borders.

Locals led by Abel Rubahika, the Mpororo village LCI Chairperson where the incident occurred protested the repeated shooting of locals at the Uganda-Rwanda border by Rwandan security operatives.

They argued that about six people have been shot by Rwandan authorities since 2019. They also demanded that Rwanda compensates the family. Locals threatened to take the law into their hands against Rwandan nationals, in case Ugandan authorities fail to do anything to stop the shootings.

At the burial at around 6:00pm, locals raised placards demanding that Uganda takes measures of stopping Rwandan security operatives from shooting Ugandan civilians.

But Kakwerere and Kyamuzigyita called for calm, saying that the matter will be discussed. Turyahikayo is survived by four wives and 12 children. Incidents of shooting suspected smugglers by Rwandan security authorities along the Uganda-Rwanda border were rampant during the border closure in 2019 to January 2022, on orders of the Rwandan government. Rwandan president Paul Kagame accused Ugandan authorities of spying on Rwanda, abducting Rwandan citizens and locking them up in non-designated areas, as well as hosting and facilitating dissidents who have declared war on the Kigali administration.

Rwanda also issued a travel advisory to its nationals against traveling to Uganda, saying their safety was not guaranteed. In May 2019, Rwandan security shot dead John Batista Ncherengye, a Rwandan national from Nkoma cell in Ntabarwe parish in Nyakatere district, and Alex Nyesiga Atuheire, a Ugandan national and resident of Nyakabungo village in Rukiga district in Hamisavu trading center in Mpororo, Kiruhura village in Kashekye parish in Kamwezi sub-county.

The incident happened when Rwandan soldiers crossed into Uganda to arrest a suspected Rwandan smuggler who tried to cross to Rwanda with second-hand clothes. The smuggler had fled back to Uganda after realizing that Rwandan security was in hot pursuit.

A scuffle broke out when Rwandan soldiers impounded a motorcycle Reg. No.RE736G, which the smuggler was using but met resistance from residents who accused them of crossing into Uganda illegally. It is during the scuffle that one of the Rwandan soldiers pulled out an AK-47 that was concealed in a long jacket and shot the two to death. Uganda police opened fire to disperse the Rwandan soldiers who were trying to carry away the deceased’s body.

 

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