Three sentenced to 50 years in jail for murdering Eritrean businessman
May 18, 2021
Captain Bumali Mangeni
Three people have been sentenced to serve 50 years in prison after being found guilty of kidnap, robbery and the subsequent murder of an Eritrean businessman Daniel Michael Weldu in 2016.
Captain Bumali Mangeni also known as Akeem, Benon Duncan Lumu, 33, and Andrew Kisitu, 28 were sentenced by the Kampala High court Judge Flavia Anglin Ssenoga for the crimes that occurred on October 27, 2016, in Kololo, an upscale suburb of Kampala.
The judge noted that she was satisfied with the evidence laid by 21 prosecution witnesses showing that the convicts kidnapped the deceased from Kololo, robbed his cash and personal belongings from Jinja, before driving him into Kenya where they shot him dead and set his body ablaze. After this, they drove off with his vehicle and sold it in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).