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Why fearless Ugandan policeman Muhammad Kirumira was gunned down

The slain Police officer Muhammad Kirumira (L) and MP Bobi Wine. [Photo: Courtesy]

"I am not just a police officer but a human rights activist too." This was a declaration by Muhammad Kirumira when he ushered in a group journalist into a law court in Kampala.

 The reporters had been locked out of covering a case involving the police boss Inspector General Kale Kayihura. The top cop was accused of failure to protect war material and abetting kidnappings and repatriation Rwandese refugees.

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