Embattled former Buyende DPC Muhammad Kirumira has been transferred to Nalufenya detention centre.
Following his outburst against his superiors over what he termed as witch hunt, Police on Thursday broke into Kirumira’s house before arresting him.
He was later detained briefly at Katwe Divisional Police station before he was later arraigned before the police tribunal at Naguru where hearing of the case in which he accused of a number of offences including extortion and corruption kicked off.
The police tribunal chairman Denis Odongpiny sent Kirumira to the railway detention facility in Nsambya until February 6 for further hearing.
However, this website has learnt that the former Old Kampala and Buyende DPC was transferred to Nalufenya yesterday night.
“On reaching the police station, I got the saddest news that my hubby was last night taken to Nalufenya . So heartbreaking,” Mariam Kirumira, the police officer’s wife posted on his social media accounts.
When contacted, Police spokesperson Emilian Kayima confirmed the embattled police officer had been moved to Nalufenya.
Nalufenya became infamous last year following the arrest of suspects who are alleged to have participated in the murder of AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi when they came out with skeptic wounds that they said had been inflicted on them at the facility.
In photos that went viral, Kamwengye mayor Godfrey Byamukama had rotting knees and ankles, all alleged to have been inflicted on him at the notorious detention facility.
The High Court in Kampala would later order government to compensate each of the 22 other suspects in the Kaweesi murder Shs 80 million for being tortured.
The 2017 report by Human Rights Watch, a US based body released last month indicated that many people have been tortured in various places including Nalufenya in Jinja district but government has ‘consistently failed to investigate cases of illegal detention and torture of suspects’ at the facility.
Recently, the police spokesperson said Nalufenya is a gazetted detention facility like many others around the country, adding that police is at liberty to detain any suspect at the facility.
“Nalufenya is a gazetted detention centre where suspects either of high profile crimes or who cannot be handled by one region because of jurisdiction are kept,” Kayima said last year.
