High Court Judge Isaac Muwata has fixed February 21st 2024 to rule on the bail application by two Sisters Martha Nkwanzi and Patricia Kakwanzi who are battling charges of destroying/ removing valuable evidence that would be used in court to prove the murder of their late father Henry Katanga.
However, the Prosecution led by Chief State Attorney Jonathan Muwaganya has asked Court to deny bail to the two sisters and instead fix the case for trial as the state is ready with its witnesses.
Muwaganya has further asked the Judge that in case he is inclined to grant bail to the girls, he should set stringent bail terms including ; depositing of land tittles and passports with court , making a weekly reporting order to the registrar and have their sureties committed to a compelling bond of not less than 100m shillings each .
Nkwanzi and Kakwanza were arrested alongside their mother Molly Katanga after the murder of their father Henry Katanga ; a city Businessman who was shot at the family’s home on Chwa 11 Road in Mbuya -Nakawa division on the 2nd/ November 2023.
The three family members are now held on remand at Luzira prison together with a shamba boy George Amanyire and Charles Otai; a medical practitioner from Bugolobi Medical hospital .
The two daughters unlike their mother Molly Katanga who is charged with murder, have since applied to be released on bail and presented their respective husbands and in-laws as sureties whom the state has found no issue with.
In their pending application, daughters Nkwanzi and Kakwanza claim it’s their Constitutional right to apply for bail because they are innocent of the charges levelled against them and it’s their strong desire to prove it while Nkwanzi specifically mentions that, she is a new mother with a breast feeding baby whom court should accord a chance to be nurtured by her mother.
Amanyire and Otai also pleaded to court releases them on bail because they are the sole bread winners of their young families, but the DPP has also since attacked them for availing no proof of residence and their sureties lacking any nexus/ connection with them . They have now been taken back on remand until next week.
