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Kidnapping Rwandan refugees: State sets free 7 police officers

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Seven senior police officers who were initially charged with failure to protect war materials, aiding and abetting the kidnap and repatriation of Rwandan refugees have been set free. The seven officers include Nixon Agasirwe, the former head of operations and former commandant at the special investigations unit (SIU), Col Ndahura Atwooki, the former director of crime intelligence and Herbert Muhangi, the former head of the flying squad. Others are Richard Ndaboine, the former head of the cybercrime unit, Patrick Muramira, an operative in the flying squad, Jonas Ayebaza, a former personal assistant to former Inspector General of Police Gen Edward Kale Kayihura and Muyomba Kitagenda, an operative with the flying squad. The prosecution had stated that on October 25, 2013, while at Kamengo in Mpigi district, the seven police officers conspired with their former boss Kayihura to kidnap three Rwandan refugees namely; Joel Mutabazi, Jackson Kalemera and Innocent Kaliisa and conveyed them to t