Embattled Jinja RDC, Eric Sakwa stormed into the office of the District Internal Security Officer (DISO) causing a stampede as he demanded for the key to his own office and damaged property including a government computer.
Sakwa together with over 30 rowdy youths raided the DISO’s office on Tuesday May 26 at about 4:30 PM.
On entering, according to a video recording, he found the deputy DISO, Mr John Mugomba whom he told that he wanted to work so he should be given the key to his office.
Mr Mugomba says he told Mr Sakwa that he doesn’t keep the key to the office before he advised him to consult with the DISO who was not in office at the time.
“They came in a big group and Mr Sakwa demanded for the key to his office. When I said I didn’t have it, one of them caught the laptop with which I was working, threw it on the flow and it got damaged. This is government property and I don’t know where they got the anger to vandalise things in a public office,” he said.
The RDC last week secured an interim order to return to the office until an application challenging his interdiction is disposed.
Asked to comment about the events that happened last evening, Mr Sakwa on Wednesday refuted the claims of vandalism and insisted that when he didn’t get the key, he marched out of the DISO’s office.
“I didn’t touch anything and he should come clear on this. I stood four meters away asking for the key which he said he didn’t have and I went out,” he said.
Mr Sakwa was last month arrested and later released by court on bail on charges of manslaughter, robbery and malicious damage on property.
Last week, President Museveni’s letter suspending the embattled RDC for two months as detectives continue with investigations into the cases emerged.
However, Mr Sakwa said, “I have never received this letter. The letter wasn’t addressed to me and I was not in copy. No one has brought to me that letter officially so I can’t stop carrying out my duties.”
Mr Mugomba said he reported the matter to Jinja Central Police Station last evening and the officers are yet to act.
