PHOTO: Kato Murder Suspect Enock Nsubuga Paraded Before Media

 

Here is your first look at Enock Nsubuga, the man who allegedly confessed to the murder of Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato. Nsubuga was perp walked and paraded before the media in Kampala this morning.

UGP:

Police arrested one Enock Nsubuga alias Sydney as prime suspect and he has since confessed to hitting the deceased with a hammer on the head while he was in the bathroom. Police chief Maj. Gen. Kale who paraded Nsubuga before the media in Kampala, says investigations into the murder are still on going and that charges of murder could be preferred. He says the murder is not related to the late Kato's gay rights activities but was linked to a case of robbery. David Kato's murder has attracted international criticism over alleged harassment of gays in Uganda.

More from New Vision, which reports the Ugandan police's convenient theory of a sex-for-pay deal gone wrong:

Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura ... said Nsubuga, who was paraded to the press at the briefing, confessed to killing Kato in the extra-judicial statement he recorded at Mukono magistrate’s court. According to the statement, Kato allegedly promised to pay Nsubuga for consensual sex on January 25. However, Kato failed to pay, prompting Nsubuga to kill him.

Kayihura explained that the Police followed clues that pointed to robbery, adding that Nsubuga had a long criminal record. He, however, said there was no evidence linking Kato’s murder to his sexuality.

Police previously described the suspect as a "thief." They are now describing Nsubuga as "a male prostitute", reports AFP.

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. Kato reportedly received numerous death threats after his name and photo made the front page with the headline "Hang Them".

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Comments

[Nathan James]

So the Kampala police would have us all believe...what? That David Kato, a known LGBT activist in a country known to be extremely hostile to gays, and who wass marked for death in a public newspaper, happened to meet his end reneging on a pay-for-sex arrangement with a "thief", er, "male prostitute"?

The Kampala police are going right into the "blame the victim" playbook for this. If this is in fact Nsubuga's story, the police are a little too quick to buy it, because I sure don't buy this canned BS.

[Pip]

i'm sorry but doesn't seem right. this guy is going to get off. mark my words. i hate to be so suspicious but it seems fishy. i don't think this guy did it.

[Jackson]

There is the possibility the confession is true. Let's keep an open mind. He bailed him out of jail and took him; why, we are yet to be know.

[Bill]

I agree with what Nathan said... not buying it, and would only add Kato had more dignity and self respect to pay for sex.

[Tia Maria]

Ofcourse they'd say all this nonsense about the poor guy.The world's eyes are on them over their barbaric treatment of gay people. They've concocted this sordid reason to try and prove how immoral homosexual people are and justify murder.Utterly disguting murders and bigots.
RIP DAVID

[FREELEO]

I'm not buying it either.

[chris w]

@ Tia Maria. I agree with your assessment. The sex-for-pay story is yet another version of "blame the victim" to JUSTIFY the depravity and barbarism of the perpetrators.

[Justme]

They always blaming the victim of the crime as if he is the one committed it. They are making it look like Kato payed a prostitute for sex. I don't believe it and i know deep down he would not have done something like that. But the Ugandan police making it look like that. I am not buying this one. The world is watching and we are not fools cause we know what is going on. So sad a man has to lose his life because of hate. Kato RIP in peace my brother you are truly a true worrior to the cause.