Ruthless Pakistani Investor Abid Alam Denied Bail, Begs Gen. Salim Saleh For Rescue

Ruthless Pakistani Investor Abid Alam Denied Bail, Begs Gen. Salim Saleh For Rescue

 By Spy Uganda

The  days of pakistani businessman Abid Alam being untouchable in Uganda are finally over.
Abid Alam, who was arrested last week over cases ranging from gang rape to murder and illegal evictions, was Friday denied bail  by Buganda Road court again and further remanded to Kitalya Maximum prison.

However, sources revealed to our spy that prior to his arrest, court arraignment and remand to Kitalya Prison last week, Abid Alam tried  in vain to get General Caleb Akandwanaho aka Salim Saleh to rescue him from Lt.Col. Edith Nakalema’s Anti-corruption Unit.

Trouble for Abid started last Thursday,  when Buganda Road Grade One magistrate Ketty Joan Acaa remanded him to Kitalya prison over allegations of assault.

However,  the assault charge could be the weakest count on the list of charges that are likely to be preferred against him when he returns to court on May 8, 2020, since he also faces of gang rape, murder, malicious damage to property, among others.

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Abid,  who is the proprietor of Wamala Farm Enterprises Ltd, has been cited in  violent land evictions in Bukompe village, Nalutuntu sub-county, in the central district of Kassanda, where he allegedly evicted locals so as to expand his vast sugarcane plantation, which spurns  four-square-miles.

He was arraigned before Buganda Road Magistrate’s court hours after his arrest at Matugga along the Kampala–Gulu Highway as he returned to Kampala from a meeting in Nakaseke with General Salim Saleh.

Impeccable sources revealed to this website  that since Alam’s first arrest on April 9, 2020, by operatives from Lt. Col. Nakalema’s State House Anti-Corruption unit, Gen Saleh had been working round the clock to reconcile him with Maj Arthur Mugyenyi, whose farm, Abid’s men raided and destroyed on the night of April 3, 2020.

It is alleged that on the said night, Abid’s gang cut down Mugyenyi’s three-acre banana plantation, drove away about 200 heads of cattle and 50 goats, razed three houses before gang-raping the farm caretaker Samuel Kyakabale’s wife and hacked Kyakabale to near death for protesting against the raping of his wife in full view of their children.

However, prior to that incident, several locals had previously been evicted from  their land by Abid’s goons,  although he had always  gotten away with it because he had compromised the police and other security officials in Kassanda district. But his days of impunity ended when his men raided Maj Mugyenyi’s farm.

Who Is Maj Mugyenyi

According to sources, Mugyenyi is the deputy director for political intelligence at the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) although he also hails from a well-connected family in Nyabushozi, Kiruhura district.

His father, Charles Rutembara, was a close ally of President Yoweri Museveni’s father late Amos Kaguta.

 It is said that Abid’s arrest came after Rutembara rang  President Museveni and informed him about the assault on his family before he (Museveni) directed Nakalema and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Martin Okoth-Ochola to intervene in the matter.

After  the arrest of Abid, Nakalema also arrested four police officers who include: Wilber Ostin Wanyama (Wamala Regional CID officer), Daniel Owellano (Kassanda District Police Commander), Peter Beitera (OC CID, Kassanda) and Wilson Azale (OC Records, Kassanda) over allegations of mismanaging case files, conspiracy to defeat justice and professional misconduct. They were said to be colluding with Abid to unleash terror onto helpless citizens and allegedly killing 27 previous cases filed against him. 

Police spokesman Fred Enanga revealed that the officers had been giving copies of the case files to Abid, which is against police conduct. Before their arrest, the policemen had allegedly photocopied the rape case file (CRB 234/2020) against Abid’s men and given him a copy.

When Abid realized that the atrocities had been committed against a well-connected  UPDF officer, he immediately pleaded with Gen Saleh for help, although the latter could not rescue him from the saga.

It is alleged that on Tuesday, April 14, Abid drove to Saleh’s farm at Namunkekeera in Nakaseke district and asked him to  talk to Maj Mugyenyi but Mugyenyi insisted that he wanted the matter had to be decided in court.

It is said that Abid also proposed to compensate Maj Mugyenyi based on a valuer’s assessment but theUPDF officer still rejected the offer. 

When his case file moved from Nakalema’s office to CID headquarters, Kibuli in Kampala, Abid drove back to Nakaseke for yet another meeting while at the same time, Kassanda South MP, Simeo Nsubuga, sought audience with President Museveni who reportedly advised Saleh  to stop shielding  Abid.

Museveni later directed the deputy IGP Maj Gen. Sabiiti Muzeeyi and Nakalema to arrest the tycoon and prosecute him.

That was how operatives camped at Matugga, arrested  and drove him to Buganda Road court where he was jointly charged with the Kassanda policemen and remanded to Kitalya prison despite protests from his lawyer, Moses Nsubuga.

The policemen are accused of conspiring with the tycoon to defeat the course of justice by unlawfully passing confidential information to him, a prime suspect, regarding his case files. This allegedly happened on April 8, 2020 between Mityana Regional Police Office and Ntinda in Kampala.

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