Kanyamunyu Admits Killing Akena
Kampala businessman Mathew Kanyamunyu, a prime suspect in the shooting
of child rights activist Kenneth Akena Watmon, has this afternoon confessed to
the crime and agreed to pay reparation for the offence.
Kanyamunyu was
arrested in 2016 on suspicion that he drew a gun at Akena after he reportedly
accidentally knocked his car in a parking lot in Lugogo, Kampala. Akena had
reportedly gone to apologise to Kanyamunyu after the accident, but Kanyamunyu
instead lowered the window of his car and shot him with a pistol at close
range.
Akena died a few
hours later at Norvic hospital along Bombo Road where he had been taken by the
accused. Kanyamunyu has since then been on trial together with his Burundian
girlfriend Cynthia Munwangari and sibling Joseph Kanyamunyu who allegedly hid
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