Former Kayihura aide, Baroza, deserts police

The Police have declared Assistant Commissioner of Police, Jonathan Baroza, the former aide to the jailed former Inspector General of Police Gen.Kale Kayihura, as a deserter by the force.

Baroza was in 2017 sent to Algeria as the police liaison officer in the North African country for Uganda police.

He reportedly did not come back and he is believed to be somewhere in Europe.

However according to a message to a police message dated July 16 to the Director Interpol, Regional Police Commander for Rwiizi and Mbarara District Police Commander for Mbarara, Baroza has been reported away without official leave from his official duty station since June.

“DPC Mbarara is requested to check for him at the home of Kabiguruka Yovas of Karora village, Rugando sub county , Mbarara district and advise the same to report back to his duty station by July ,22 ,2018 or else be declared as a deserter,” reads the message.

Since the arrest of Kayihura and a number of his cronies by the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), Baroza has been on the run.

Last month, reports indicated that operatives from CMI and the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) were hunting for him.

Earlier reports had said that he had been arrested in the swoop by the army and that he was being returned home but this turned out not to be true.

A number of senior police and army officers believed to be close to Gen.Kayihura were a month ago arrested by the army before being detained at Makindye over a number of offences that the army has kept a secret.

Among those arrested included the former cyber-crime head Richard Ndaboine, former crime intelligence director Col Ndahura Atwooki, the former Flying Squad commander Herbert Muhangi, former Professional Standards Unit Commander Good Mwesigwa and Lt Col Peter Musherure, the former deputy police director of crime intelligence among others.

All of them, apart from Col Ndahura, have never been arraigned in any court to be formally charged of any offence.