More developments after the arrest of Nsubuga Enock, the man who confessed to the murder of Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato over an alleged "personal disagreement." Police now say it was a sex-for-pay deal gone wrong, reports the Toronto Sun.
Ugandan police said on Thursday a prominent gay activist who was found dead last week was killed by a sex partner, ruling out the murder was related to his gay rights campaign. ...
Police said they arrested Enock Nsubuga, whom they described as a “well-known thief”, on Wednesday at his girlfriend’s house, saying he had been staying at Kato’s home after the activist bailed him out of prison on Jan. 24. "According to the suspect he negotiated with the deceased to be paid money as he was to be used as a sexual partner," Uganda’s top police officer, Inspector General Kale Kayihura, told reporters on Thursday.
Kayihura said the men then had sex but Kato did not pay. "The following day Nsubuga confesses that he picked a hammer from the bathroom and hit him on the head,” Kayihura said. "There is nothing concrete to suggest that Nsubuga was motivated by hate, although we are not dismissing it."
More lurid details in the Ugandan press. Enock claims Kato "coerced him into sodomy", refused to "give him a car [and] a house" and later forced himself on the suspect, reports The Daily Monitor.
A police source, who preferred anonymity because he is not authorised to talk to the press, said the suspect confessed to killing Kato because he was reportedly tired of engaging in homosexual practices. "We have taken him to Mukono Magistrate’s Court to record an extrajudicial statement,” the source said. “He told us that he killed Kato after he failed to give him a car, a house and money he promised as rewards for having sex with him," the source said.
Kato is alleged to have bailed the suspect out of Kawuga Prison on January 24, where he been remanded on charges of theft of a mobile phone. The suspect told police that he stayed with Kato for two days. He accused the deceased of having sex with him and promising to pay him during the period.
The suspect allegedly told the police he got tired of having sex with Kato but the latter would not have any of his excuses. “The suspect said he left the bedroom, went to a store and picked a hammer which he used to hit him [Kato] while he was still in bed,” the source said. The death of Kato was condemned by the international community as an attack on the gay community.
Authorities have refused to link Kato's murder to his activism or being listed among the nation's "100 Top Homos" by the infamous local anti-gay tabloid Rolling Stone. "Gay activists in Kampala, who had believed Kato was killed because of his sexuality, told Reuters on Thursday they still needed more proof from the police. Some had feared the government would cover-up the homophobia angle because the international media attention could jeopardise crucial aid inflows," adds the Sun.
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The Right-wing, false Christians from the US are not only teaching them to kill African Gays, but also how to use the "gay panic" defense (or is the Ugandan government telling him to use that line of defense?) Only problem is why would you start panicking after two days of mutually agreed upon sex?
300 years ago, David Kato probably would have been an accepted member of whatever East African society he was part of. Christian Missionaries were appauled to find such acceptance in African cultures, and so they had to change that abmoninable sinfulness. They succeeded finally with faith based bribery.
(I was going to include Muslim Invaders with the Christian Missionaries, but I think they liked the committing the abomination for a while)
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | 03 February 2011 at 13:39
“He told us that he killed Kato after he failed to give him a car, a house and money he promised as rewards for having sex with him,"
A house, a car and some money? That must have been some hellafied dick!
The story seems coached and exaggerated and doesn't even seem remotely believable. In America, the trade might be given $20, $50 or $100. If this man demanded a house and a car for services, he is lying or delusional.
Posted by: Former COGIC | 03 February 2011 at 13:49
The longer the explination, the bigger the Lie!!!
Posted by: DW Jazzlover | 03 February 2011 at 17:16
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. As this suspect's canned "confession" is right out of the old "gay panic defense" playbook, my BS meter almost exploded when I read this. Numerous people, including NYC Councilman Danny Dromm, also cited this pack of lies at a vigil for Kato in the city today.
Posted by: Nathan James | 03 February 2011 at 18:55
So right, Derrick. How is it that Christianity has become an essential part of what it means to be an African, but homosexuality, which is as old as the amoeba, is just a modern European import?
You will find the same bizarre nonsense in the South Pacific. Go to Samoa or Tonga or Fiji, and you will discover that they all imagine themselves to be the original Christians. Each ethnic group independently thinks they are the Lost Tribe of Israel described in the Bible.
It would all be hilarious if it weren’t just part of a scheme of oppression.
Posted by: Jim | 03 February 2011 at 23:40