Mr. Muwaganya argued against a senior forensic pathologist experts finding, "that entrance bullet wound wasn't a hole through" literally to mean that their was no bullet hole through.
Can prosecution demonstrate to court where their stupid exit wound came out from? Or no wound
UgandaVsMollyKatanga
Senior Forensic Pathologist calls the possibility that Mr Henry Katanga was shot and killed by his wife Molly Katanga, “extremely slim and highly unlikely”.
He said the case before Justice Rosette Comfort Kania is not a homicide but a homicide-suicide where Mr Henry Katanga beat his wife, thought she was dead then sat or stood on the bed and shot himself.
He lambasted the postmortem report presented by the state to back up their case as a “very dangerous postmortem report that couldn’t have passed peer review” in a serious entity.
Dr Sylvester Onzivua was the first defense witness in this trial.
He holds a Degree in Medicine and Surgery, from Makerere University (1993), a Masters of Medicine in Pathology (2003), a Post Graduate Diploma in Forensic medicine from the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (2005). He’s also trained in Forensic Anthropology from Durban.
He worked with Mulago Hospital, attached to the Department of Pathology of Makerere University and part of his deployment was in the City Mortuary where he was the Head of City Mortuary. He worked there from 2005 up to 2013. He said he has testified in numerous cases, mostly for the prosecution, including in the military courts.
In a session whose start was marked by early heated exchanges between defense attorney Elison Karuhanga and Chief State Attorney Jonathan Muwaganya, Dr Onzivua took on the mantle of courtroom forensic pathology Prof, basically reliving a teaching role he continues to play in real life at Makerere University, even after his retirement.
Early court proceedings were anything but smooth, with the Judge calling both sets of lawyers to her chambers for more than 2 hours because the state was adamant that Dr Onzivua shouldn’t use the postmortem report on court file but should instead use copies availed to him by the defense.
On resumption and with a 50 slide PowerPoint presentation, Dr Onzivua took Justice Kania through the science of bullets and bullet injuries.
He told her how to tell a bullet entry wound from an exit wound.
He then used images of the late Henry Katanga, taken during postmortem, to show that the pathologists who conducted that postmortem wrote an erroneous report that misled the court to think the bullet that killed Mr Katanga went from left to right as opposed to what he said was a scientifically incontrovertible conclusion that the bullet direction was right to left.
This point is very key because when Justice Kania put Mrs Katanga to her defense, she relied in part on prosecution evidence that claimed that Mr Katanga was shot on the left side of his head and since he was right handed, this would be very difficult.
Dr Onzivua scoffed at that and using a combination of human props and postmortem images, he showed that indeed the state had it wrong; that it was scientifically wrong to conclude as they did.
He pointed to the absence of tattooing, lacerations on the hole on the left side of Mr Katanga’s head and wondered why the state pathologists concluded that it was an entry hole despite showing all characteristics of an exit hole.
He said there’s “no tattooing, no blackening, no muzzle imprint on a close contact bullet entry wound? So how, how, hoooow would they have called this an entry wound in the absence of blackening, tattooing or muzzle imprint? There’s no scientific basis of calling the wound on the left an entry wound.”
“The wound on the right was stated to be 5cm by 3cm and this was described as an exit wound. The entire dimensions of the ear were taken and then stated to be the dimensions of the exit wound. This, scientifically is not correct. The true dimensions of the skull defect on the right side were not taken and there is therefore no scientific basis to call it an exit wound.
A comparison of the right and left ear shows blackening on the right and none on the left. On the contrary, the external features of the wound on the right side are those of an entry hole”
Cont’d…
@TonyNatif Mr. Muwaganya argued against a senior forensic pathologist experts finding, "that entrance bullet wound wasn't a hole through" literally to mean that their was no bullet hole through.
Can prosecution demonstrate to court where their stupid exit wound came out from? Or no wound
Dr. Muganga was born in Seeta, Mukono District, Uganda. He enrolled at Makerere University in 1998 and graduated in 2002.
Following his studies, he relocated to Rwanda, where he acquired Rwandan citizenship. In 2009, he moved to Canada to pursue further education as a Rwandan citizen.
While residing in Canada, his Rwandan passport and national identity card expired in 2014. He chose not to renew these documents and instead returned them to the Rwandan authorities.
In 2019, he returned to Uganda as a Canadian citizen, having allowed his Rwandan passport to expire without seeking its renewal. Since then, he has permanently settled in Uganda, his country of birth.
This raises an important question: Does the surrender of his Rwandan passport and national identity card amount to a formal renunciation of Rwandan citizenship? If so, was that renunciation officially accepted and approved by the relevant Rwandan authorities?
If the renunciation was formally approved, then it could be argued that he no longer holds Rwandan citizenship. In that case, if required by law for eligibility to a ministerial position, he could similarly undertake the legal process of renouncing his Canadian citizenship and retain only Ugandan citizenship.
It was to give "false hope" to abavandimwe.
Abavandimwe have been lobbying to be recognized as a tribe for long @ President.
President appointed Dr. Muganga & at the same time told Hon. Tayebwa not to see Dr. Muganga through.
President Museveni is a student of political science