Patrick Kasaija aka Patrick Agaba (Pato), the suspected Susan Magara Killer who was yesterday deported from South Africa is currently detained at the Special investigations department (SID) in Kireka.
The police spokesperson Fred Enanga says he has been allowed to access his lawyers and arrangements to interview him and also investigate his defense in the alleged murder are already in place.
“Arrangements to interview him and also investigate his defence in the alleged murder of Susan Magara are in place. Immediately after, the case file will be forwarded to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for perusal and probable sanctioning,” CP Enanga said on Wednesday evening.
South African Police Service confirmed the extradition, warning that “his extradition should be a message to all criminals that they cannot commit crimes elsewhere in the world and use South Africa as a hiding place.”
Pato is a Ugandan Citizen commonly known for cruising around in posh motor vehicles with personalised number plates named ‘Pato’.
He is alleged to have left the country carrying the ransom money paid by the family of the late Susan Magara after her murder.
He is said to have travelled to South Africa on February 25, 2018, a day after the ransom worth Sh700 million was paid to the kidnapers under the names of Patrick Kasaija.
However, investigations are yet to produce any evidence linking Pato to the crime even though the Investigators and DPP have insisted on maintaining his name on the charge sheet.
Magara, 28, who was working as the administrator for the family businesses as well as a cashier for Bwendo Dairy Farm in Hoima was kidnapped in Mengo as she left work to drive home in Lungujja on February 7, 2019.
She was held captive for three weeks, before being killed and the killers dumped her body in Kitiko Village between Kajjansi and Kigo along the Entebbe Express highway despite being given the shs700 million ransom that they had asked for from the family.
Her killers first cut off two of her fingers as they pushed the family to pay ransom money.
After arresting some suspects, police named Kasaija, Byensi Yakoub and Zahra as the other missing suspects in the kidnap and subsequent murder of Magara.
