Anthony Natif

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Oct 23

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 18

ICYMI: ACP Andrew Mubiru admits, with difficulty, that all blood he found allover the Katanga bedroom was Mrs Katanga’s except blood on the bed where Mr Henry Katanga was found dead in a pool of his own blood, gun besides him.

He also acknowledged that @PoliceUg investigators ow Mrs Katanga was injured and bled allover the bedroom.

GBV and the Law: Twice a Victim

As a society, we love the aesthetics of activism against GBV but the moment a victim fights back to stay alive , the system and public turns on them. We are literally incarcerating the victims we claim we want to protect.

Nowhere has this been more stark than this court session I’m gonna share.

Background

Mrs Molly Katanga is charged with shooting and killing her husband on the morning of 2/Nov/2023.

The state alleges there was a “domestic brawl” in the couple’s bedroom after which the wife shot the husband on the left side of his head and he died.

Her children, house help and a medical personnel who rushed to the scene are also charged as accessories after the fact.

They’re said to have tampered with the crime scene and destroyed evidence. This, despite the SOCO telling court that in his opinion, the state got all the evidence they could have needed from the scene.

On Mrs Katanga’s side, her defense is that she was a victim of egregious domestic violence at the hands of her husband. The beatings she took, according to the Head of Medical Services in Police Dr Moses Byaruhanga could have killed her if there was no immediate medical attention. He was a state witness.

The house-help, Mr George Amanyire reported hearing loud cries for help from her as her now deceased husband beat her relentlessly.

George tried to intervene but the husband ordered him away and continued beating her as she continued crying for help which never came.

Then silence, briefly interrupted by a loud sound that house occupants thought was a breaking glass, then more silence later interrupted by calls for help by Mrs Katanga.

George reportedly rushed back upstairs only to find a trail of blood on the floor which he followed and found Mrs Katanga lying in a pool of her own blood in her son’s room adjacent to the couple’s bedroom, blood gushing from both hands, and her head.

He told police that he thought her brains were oozing out. Her hands were barely attached to the rest of the arm. She was whispering “my children, my children”.

A medic, Mr Charles Otai was immediately called. So was police, Mrs Katanga’s children and Mr Katanga’s sister Naome Nyangweso.

The two daughters and Mr Otai showed up almost immediately.

The police showed up more than 2 hours later and pretty much jailed whoever was at the scene. The Sister in law showed up long after she’d been told her brother had died.

Mrs Katanga was rushed to IHK where medical intervention saved her life.

Back to the scene on Chwa II road, the immediate family alleged suicide, the state briefly investigated that then immediately abandoned it and substituted it for homicide.

Thus started a murder case that’s now inched into its third year.

To support their murder charge, then DPP Jane Frances Abodo claimed in her indictment that she had evidence of Mrs Katanga’s DNA on the gun; which, when taken with other evidence at the state’s disposal would prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Molly Katanga killed her husband.

Mrs Katanga, after public pressure and a ferocious media onslaught-mounted by her sister in law Naome Nyangweso and some other Katanga associates- was yanked out of her hospital bed and dragged before a Magistrate in Nakawa, in a wheelchair.

She was immediately dispatched to Luzira where she still is to this day; having been denied bail thrice.

When the trial eventually started in 2024, the state brought out its star witness, ACP Andrew Mubiru.

He’s the Director of Forensic Services in Uganda Police and he’s said to have analyzed the DNA samples in this case and found Mrs Katanga’s DNA dominant on the pistol magazine, barrel as well as trigger and trigger housing.

The presiding Judge, Her Lordship Rosette Comfort Kania partly relied on that to find a case to answer against Mrs Katanga. She’s currently in the middle of her defense.

Anyway, back to Mr Mubiru’s court appearance:

He did say he was the one who did DNA analysis in this case; then when pressed further said he wasn’t the one who did it but a one Barnabas Haririmana did it and he only worked as a reviewer and supervisor.

He indicated that then DPP Abodo made up those claims of having DNA evidence pinning Mrs Katanga; the same having not been processed at the time of indictment. We’ve covered this extensively.

Today, we’ll concentrate on the domestic violence issue.

In the witness stand was Mr Andrew Mubiru; being cross examined by Defense Attorney Mr Elison Karuhanga of Kampala Associated Advocates.

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Mr Mubiru had told court that DNA can be transferred from one individual to another and even from that individual to an object.

He said he didn’t test for background DNA on the gun so his report could not tell who put DNA on it, how it was put (activity level analysis) or even when it was put.

The import of this being that even if Mr Katanga held his wife’s hand a week earlier and then held his gun for cleaning or anything, her DNA could be transferred there and thus be found there by Mr Mubiru. Ditto the fact that the gun was found on the bed shared by the couple ultimately meant that it was expected to have both their DNA. That’s not really controversial.

Mr Mubiru’s report also indicated that the couple’s bedroom had blood allover it and except for the bed, the rest of the blood was Mrs Katanga’s.

Mr Karuhanga then took him through the different areas her blood was found, according to police swabs taken, analyzed and reported by Mr Mubiru.

EK to AM: Next one is blood from the swab of the door handle for the bedroom opposite the master bedroom. Again would I be correct to say Molly Katanga bled while making contact with that door?

AM: My Lord he’s talking about activity, I cannot talk about activity. I can only tell you about the source.
EK: The source is blood. You see now we are at a different level.
AM: Yes
EK: The gun you don’t know what it is. This you know someone was bleeding

(Note: AM had said he didn’t know which material he tested on the gun. He simply said it was “biological material of human origin”. When pressed as to what type it was, he said it could be anything: skin cells, sweat etc. Mrs Katanga’s hands were heavily bleeding and the expectation is if indeed she had held the gun, the state could have found blood on it. They didn’t.)

AM: Yes, and that is Molly’s blood (on the door handle).
EK: That is Molly’s blood?
AM: Yes
Judge Muwata: It was where?
EK: On the door opposite the master bedroom
EK to AM: And the next one….Molly’s blood was in the changing room.
AM: Yes, that is in the changing room inside the master bedroom.
EK: You even recovered her hair, which is on the next page…
AM: Yes
EK: With blood
AM: Yes, that is a piece of hair with suspected blood stains….EK cuts him off and says “recovered from a door frame…”

AM agrees and adds “in the washroom”.

Judge: Her hair? Is he the one who recovered it?
EK: My Lord I’m not sure, he was there.
AM: My Lord I did not recover it. I examined exhibit labeled H, a piece of hair with suspected blood stains recovered from the door frame of the washroom.
EK: And that is Molly Katanga’s hair with blood.
AM: Silence

EK: Now, explain to us activity level propositions.

(Note: you might not tell what it is from Mr Mubiru’s complex answer but activity level looks at how and when DNA material was deposited on an item instead of just saying XYZ’s DNA is there. It’s important to do this in order to establish a clear DNA trail and then criminality if present. For a gun crime for instance, one can shake your hand then a few hours later, pull a trigger in your absence. Your DNA can be there but it doesn’t mean you put it there by pulling the trigger or that you touched the gun at all).

Now to AM’s answer: My Lord, activity level propositions are propositions that would ordinarily be developed by an expert….they should be developed in pairs and they should be mutually exclusive.

EK tries to get him to be clearer: But they are propositions that deal with the activity that caused DNA to be deposited

AM: Yes; propositions are formulated prior to undertaking any analysis.
EK: My question is; are they propositions that….you’re just making a speech, let’s deal with the question you’ve been asked.

AM: My Lord I was asked to explain activity level propositions and that’s what I’m explaining. These propositions are ideally supposed to be done before analysis is done and they result from an investigator who has been able to interview either the victim or the suspect.

EK: An activity level proposition would be able to tell the activity that caused the DNA to be deposited there
AM: My Lord the propositions that we form are only able to give you an indicator of whether to believe a certain set of propositions or the other. So, that’s why we do them in pairs; mutually exclusive and they should be developed after a careful analysis by the investigators’ interview of both the victim or the suspect

EK: Would it take a forensic scientist to know that if you found blood on the side of the door with someone’s hair, that person’s head was bashed on that door? Do you need a Master’s from King’s College London( for that)?

(Note: Mr Mubiru got his graduate degree from KCL).

AM: No, my Lord, that’s not our role. We cannot begin developing propositions without a clear instruction from the investigator.

Judge Muwata: Develop what?

EK to the Judge: He can’t develop propositions without a clear instruction from the investigator.

EK to AM: So, the investigators were not interested in knowing how Molly Katanga’s blood was deposited allover that room?

AM: I don’t know. He then said he couldn’t answer for the investigators as he wasn’t one.

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

11h

Dan Ayebare@DanAyebare

15h

25.10 🎂

Proof of life.😊

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

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Janice Kyakundwa, PhD

@kyakundwa

11h

@TonyNatif treating @mubirua1’s@mubirua1y as a joke, missing the real danger: His incompetence has helped send THOUSANDS of innocent people to jail. He claims blood on the ceiling came from a woman urinating on it. How daft do you have to be to suggest that? @igp_ug1, i@igp_ug1he image of @PoliceUg you’re happy with?

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

11h

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 23

ICYMI: ACP Andrew Mubiru, Uganda Police’s Director of Forensic Services Tries to Downplay Domestic Violence Suffered by Mrs Molly Katanga.

On this day, Mr Mubiru said Mrs Katanga’s blood, found allover the room, might have been due to her urinating there! Judge advised him to statements”

Mr Elison Karuhanga of Kampala Associated Advocates was leading the cross examination of the state’s Star Witness, Mr Andrew Mubiru. Presiding Judge was His Lordship Isaac Muwata. This was before he was indisposed and was replaced by Her Lordship Rosette Comfort Kania

Verbatim reporting: 👇🏾

Judge Muwata inquiring into labeling of exhibit XX: (Is it) blood on the floor of the master bedroom?

EK to AM: You found blood on the floor of the master bedroom belonging to Molly Katanga? The one (exhibit) you corrected..
AM: Yes, that’s XII, exhibit labeled 2…

EK: So, that’s blood on the floor belonging to Molly Katanga?
AM: We received a swab, obtained from the floor near the eastern door to the master bedroom
EK: And it had blood?
AM: Yes
EK: And it had Molly Katanga’s blood?
AM: It (the blood) had DNA which was attributed to…
EK: Molly Katanga?
AM: Yes
EK: So it’s Molly Katanga’s blood?
AM: You can infer
EK laughs, as if in disbelief that Mr Mubiru can’t bring himself to say “this was indeed Molly Katanga’s blood”.

He then goes ahead with his cross examination: You also have blood on the western wall of the wardrobe of the master bedroom
AM: Yes, that’s exhibit labeled A
Judge Muwata: A? Blood on where?
AM: That is a cutting from the blood swab from the western wall of the wardrobe in the master bedroom near the door leading to the washroom and dressing room.

EK: You have another H.
AM: Yes
EK: And you explain that this is because on the part where the hair was recovered from, there was a lot of blood
AM: No. No, no, no. What I explained here is that when we received this item H, this H was within the same packaging as…aaah, it was near…
EK: You had told us it was on the side of the wall and that wall had a zone marked H. Are you changing your evidence?
AM: That’s not what I said
EK: Okay
Judge: But where were we? We have exhibits
EK: We have 2 exhibits marked H. H and then H, the same mark, the same letter
AM: Yes
Judge: Was there A, also?
AM: Yes
Judge: So now…?
AM: This was another H labeled specimen 6H2Y23S025-1.
EK: So, that’s blood again on the wall of the master bedroom?
AM: Yes, this was a swab which was together with another swab called G obtained from part of the wall between the southern master bedroom door and the washroom door.

EK: Then you have the next one which is also blood on the door curtain. Am I right?
AM: You’re speaking to exhibit labeled 22-1 where we draw a specimen 682Y23S027
EK: Am I right, that’s blood from the door curtain?
AM: Swabbing from the door curtain to the balcony of the master bedroom
EK: Molly Katanga’s blood?

AM still refuses to mention her name and simply says: “this was also attributed to the person in question.”

EK: You then have blood on the ceiling, correct? Which is exhibit C1-1
AM: Yes, that’s specimen S228; that is cutting from the blood swab from the concrete ceiling near the lightbulb.
EK: The blood on the ceiling was for who?
AM: This particular specimen, the DNA was attributed to the person in question.

Mr Mubiru still refuses to explicitly name Mrs Katanga as the person whose blood he found on the ceiling.

EK insists: No, was to who? (The blood he found)
AM finally cracks: it was attributed to Molly Katanga
EK: So, Molly Katanga’s blood is on the floor. Correct?
AM doesn’t answer

EK: You have Molly Katanga’s blood on the floor, correct?
AM: I have her DNA on most of these exhibits
EK: Do you have her DNA on the blood on the floor?
AM: I wasn’t there
EK: Do you have a blood swab with Molly’s DNA on the blood on the floor?
AM continues to vacillate: Yes, I have a blood swab. It says “cutting from the swab of the concrete ceiling near the lightbulb”

EK isn’t having it: Mr Mubiru, do you have her blood on the floor?
AM: My Lord, I didn’t put her blood on the floor so what’s the question?

EK: I think let’s first go to your duties, yah?
AM: Yes
EK: According to you, if you look at paragraph 36 of your report, yah?
AM: Yes
EK: You say what you understand your role in this court to be. Can you tell us what it is?
AM: Yes

EK reads Mr Mubiru’s own statement in his report: “Your role in this court overrides your obligation to the party to whom you’re engaged. Correct?”
AM: Yes
EK: You’re here to give this court full and frank answers, correct?

AM stutters

EK: Are you here to give this court full and frank answers?

AM: Yes, my Lord

EK: So answer the questions you’re asked without being evasive. Did you find Molly Katanga’s blood on the floor?

AM: I found Molly’s DNA on a swab which was recovered from the floor

EK: On the wardrobe…
AM: I found Molly’s DNA on a swab which was attributed by o having been recovered from the wardrobe.

EK: On the curtain…
AM: I found Molly Katanga’s DNA on a swab which was recovered from the curtain

EK: On the ceiling…
AM: I found Molly’s DNA on the swab which was recovered from the (blood) stain on the ceiling

EK: In the bathroom…
AM: I found DNA which was attributed to Molly on the swab which was recovered from very many swabs on door frames as attributed in the report

EK: So, they were all characterized by the police as blood swabs. Correct?
AM: Yes, they were characterized as blood swabs.
EK: So, they swabbed blood. Does that mean they took blood?
AM: I’d imagine so.
(Runkyakore translation)

EK: You found it (blood) on door frames of all the doors; the bathroom, the master bedroom, the nearby bedroom.
AM: My Lord, the DNA is on the swabs and those swabs are attributed to have come from those areas

EK: And those are blood swabs
AM: They’re blood swabs
EK: And they tested positive for blood?
AM: Yes, we tested them and they tested positive for blood.

EK: And the DNA in that blood belongs to Molly Katanga?
Judge Isaac Muwata: Yes?
AM answers: Yes

EK: Okay. So, it would be fair to say that Molly Katanga was subjected to the worst and most horrendous form of domestic violence in that room on that fateful November morning, correct?
AM: My Lord, that is the work of court to determine.
Judge Muwata was having none of that. He said to Mr
Mubiru: “No….Do you know or not?”
AM: My Lord….I don’t know

EK: But I said is it fair to make that conclusion?
AM: My Lord I’m not in that position to make that judgment.

EK: How does blood leave the body? It just gets out?
AM: You can urinate it as well.

(Courtroom laughs…)

EK: Did you find urine?
AM: You can bleed, you can urinate…
EK: Did you find urine?
AM: I was not the one at the scene, so….

A visibly angry Mr Karuhanga asks Mr Mubiru: Can you urinate on the ceiling?
AM: My Lord, I don’t know.
EK: Can a woman urinate on the ceiling?

(More courtroom laughter).

Mr Karuhanga seems uninterested in whatever is making the courtroom laugh. He seems to be getting rather angry at the answers he’s getting

AM: My Lord, the last time I checked, I’m not a woman so, you can ask them (women).
EK: You don’t even know that?
AM: My Lord I’m not a woman.
Judge Muwata intervenes: Just answer what you can. If you don’t know, say so, otherwise you (end up) saying outrageous things.
Judge to Mr Karuhanga: Anyway, he doesn’t know..
EK: He doesn’t know….

EK then says to AM: According to the state’s evidence…the state’s accusation, there was a violent confrontation in the bedroom that day. Would this DNA speak to that violent confrontation?

Mr Mubiru remains silent and looks at the prosecutors’ area.

EK: Don’t look at the state for answers…Would this DNA speak to a violent confrontation?
AM: My Lord I’d need to appraise myself with the characteristics of a violent confrontation…some violent confrontations…

EK: No, no, no. Would this DNA (speak to a violent confrontation)? Just say yes or no or I don’t know.
AM: No, the DNA cannot speak to that because my Lord this question I’ve already answered. I cannot speak to activities that led to the deposition of DNA

EK: Okay, fine. But you were at the scene….

UgandaVsMollyKatanga resumes soon after the Judges are done with electoral petitions.

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

16h

Hakim Ndawula Ssemuwemba@EAsamurai

16h

@TonyNatif Even Mutoni Construction who built the main pharmaceutical manufacturing warehouse were not paid properly. Out of 6 billions bill, only one was paid after a fierce court struggle and mediation - Mutoni Construction got strangled by Magoola's works.

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

16h

Kalabanda@KalchallansMose

16h

@Wassajja_Aiden @PoliceUg @GovUganda @JudiciaryUG @mubirua1 Aiden you are soo stupid, your head is just so empty and you are useless... we have come a very long way with this case @TonyNatif has been giving reports (directly from the court) on this case for a very long time. Just becoz u wasn't following doesnt make it our problem

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

17h

Ali Muzoora@AliMuzoora50955

18h

@TonyNatif Imagine a professional saying something like that in court!! I’m still waiting for the one on one engagement the one @kyakundwa asked for with @mubirua1

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 24

Imac Ayebazibwe

@untouchable185

Oct 24

"Even if I don’t earn a dollar for the next 30 years, my life won’t change much." Chweera omuriro. 🔥

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 24

Boudicca@_Boudiccamia_

Oct 24

Ha! Here we go again. 2nd round of subverting magachudleys.

This is how the keep Donnie beholden to his wing of neocons inc.
Pretend they're serious fighting the "regime change " gang bringing same tactics to domestic sphere.

@TonyNatif take a listen.

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 24

Denzel UG@DenzelGadgets

Oct 24

Hello #UoX

One of our vibrant members @FreddyMyLov3 who we have been raising money for unfortunately passed on.

Her family still has a heavy hospital bill so if you can drop a contribution, it would be appreciated.

Uganda - 0751879625
International- gofund.me/3f2d0c5d0

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 24

MUKIGA NENKI@mukigawamuhoozi

Oct 24

The truth is Education and ssembabule leaders (MPs)a parrarel this I repeat

Teh other day I talked about it and @TonyNatif said njasamile muli 😂😂

Walayi tell me among their MPs who has a well streamlined education background

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 24

Kantu Herbert@KantuHerbert

Oct 24

@Wassajja_Aiden Which DNA are you referring to? Mubiru himself testified in court that he never tested Molly’s DNA on the grip or the safety. Even an amateur knows that checking for DNA on the grip is one of the first things a forensics team does.

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 24

Andrew M. Mwenda

@AndrewMwenda

Oct 23

Yesterday the Inspector General of Government (IGG) interdicted the current CEO of Uganda National Mining Company (UNMC), Mr Gerald Banaga-Baingi, and the Corporation Secretary, Lelia Bwambale, to pave way for a full investigation of the organization. Now, sources at UNMC say that Mr Banaga-Baingi is still in office.

Apparently, the chairperson of the board, Mrs Maria Kiwanuka, has not officially notified Mr Banaga-Baingi of this decision - for whatever reasons. Nonetheless, Banaga-Baingi must have read the official statement of the IGG on X (Twitter). His continued presence in office is obvious defiance of the IGG. It must therefore be aimed at covering up evidence.

I have spoken to the CDF who is also chairman of PLU and the leading person in the anti corruption crusade, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. He says he fully supports the decision of the IGG. Mr Banaga-Baingi’s defiance of the IGG cannot be tolerated. He is advised to leave office immediately or face the full force of the state to evict him forcefully by police or UPDF.

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 24

Angela Kateemu@Kateemu

Oct 24

@TonyNatif How callous!
🤬😡

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 24

John Smith@JohnSmithlm4z

Oct 24

@TonyNatif @PoliceUg But again one wonders, all this funding in billions who does it help? I presume the NGO directors & their families🤷🏾‍♂️ isn’t Molly a woman, GBV victim?;

Where are the GBV NGOs?
Where are the feminists?
Why is this case still in court?
Why are these people eating donor money?

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 24

Pault@paultegu

Oct 24

@TonyNatif I need to pay more attention to Tony's fight with that section of the Police. The man has been relentless 🤣

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 24

Joel Roy Mucunguzi@M_____i_JR

Oct 24

I’m not entirely sure you understand enough about criminal procedure to comment competently about defenses and no case to answer.

🙂‍↔️

Anthony Natif

@TonyNatif

Oct 24

Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs

@MoJCAUG

Oct 23

📌The Austrian Government, @UNFPAUganda and @GovUganda Launch €3.4M SAFER Phase III to Advance Justice, SRHR and GBV Services in Northern Uganda

Today, @MoJCAUG Permanent Secretary, Mr. Robert Kasande together with Ms. @rachel_odoi, the Senior Technical Advisor-JLOS official signing of a €3.42 Million Tripartite Agreement between the Austrian Government, @UNFPAUganda and @GovUganda at JLOS Towers, Kampala.

The agreement launches Phase III of the SAFER Project (2026–2029) – Sexual and Reproductive Health, Access to Justice, Freedom, Equality and Rights – under the leadership of the @MOJCA and the @Mglsd_UG.

What SAFER III will deliver:
Building on Phases I & II, the project will expand survivor-centred access to justice, uphold SRHR, and address GBV across Karamoja, Acholi and Lango sub-regions, targeting 830,872 direct beneficiaries – primarily women, adolescent girls, persons with disabilities and underserved communities.

Key interventions include:
▶️Scaling up integrated SRHR, GBV prevention & response, and legal services
▶️Strengthening institutional capacity – ODPP, Uganda Police Force, Uganda Prison Service, UHRC, Local Council Courts – to reduce case backlogs through special court sessions and ADR
▶️Advancing social transformation by tackling harmful practices including FGM, child marriage, and emerging forms of violence such as technology-facilitated GBV

“This support reflects Austria’s continued commitment to strengthening the rule of law and protecting the rights of vulnerable populations,” said @Dr_KatjaK, Head of Austrian Embassy in Uganda

“By streamlining integrated health, justice, and protection services, UNFPA is committed to ensuring that every survivor of GBV receives rapid, dignified, and survivor-centered support,” said Ms. Kristine Blokhus, @UNFPAUganda Country Representative.

The programme uses a systems-strengthening approach, embedding into national structures for sustainability, with CSOs such as @uwonet.

This is fully aligned with Uganda’s Fourth National Development Plan (NDP IV).

We thank the Government of Austria and UNFPA for this continued partnership.