Security organs in
Uganda have registered a breakthrough in their quest to arrest a Ugandan
boxer, Kakeeto Geoffrey, who disappeared a while ago. Kakeeto
disappeared in 2017 after the tragic death of his close friend Okot
Patrick. A source close to the family of the deceased told us last night
that Ugandan security has since ascertained that Kakeeto is no longer
in Uganda.
“They said they have fresh information that he (Kakeeto)
was crafted onto a boxing team led by Afande Kaddu of Bombo which was
going for a boxing tournament in Germany. As soon as he reached Germany,
he escaped from the team and disappeared,” the source which preferred
anonymity because of the sensitivity of this matter said.
The source
said the police assured it that they will soon engage International
Police (Interpol) to have Kakeeto arrested and repatriated to face
charges in Ugandan courts.
Reports indicate that Okot died of
multiple injuries a week after a scuffle broke out on the outskirts of
Bombo town where a number of teenagers used to go for gym and training
in physical games like boxing, kick-boxing, martial arts among others.
It is said that both Kakeeto and Okot were caught red-handed engaging in
unnatural sexual behavior. Police had swung into action to arrest
Kakeeto but he disappeared and the search for him is still on.
Section
145 of the Penal Code Act stipulates life imprisonment for any person
who commits unnatural offences. The unnatural offences the law prohibits
are; having carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature;
(b) having carnal knowledge of an animal; or (c) permitting a male
person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of
nature.
This section also prohibits any attempt to commit the above
offences and it stipulates seven years for any person found to have
attempted to commit such crimes. This, in other words, makes it easier
for the police to juggle between the two provisions to have someone
brought to book either through the commission of proving an attempt to
commit.
Under Section 27(2) of the Police Act, a police officer has
powers to, without warrant, and at any hour of the day or night, enter
into any premises where he or she reasonably suspects that an unlawful
activity is taking place or is about to take place and arrest any
person(s) there.
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