The Director of Public Prosecutions has dropped murder charges against Dr Blasio Kabugo, a private medical practitioner in Masaka Municipality. The doctor had been previously accused of deliberately killing a woman and a cyclist in a road accident. Kabugo, who denies any wrong doing, is facing new, but scaled down charges of causing death by rash or negligence, driving under the influence of alcohol and failing to stop after an accident.
He was granted bail last Friday by the Masaka Chief Magistrate, Moses Katoroogo. He re-appears in Court on August 23 for the commencement of his trial.
Kabugo was on January 24, this year, charged with the murder of two people; Daryl Namugenyi, a resident of Senyange village and David Kanyaaga of Kimanyi village in Masaka Municipality. He was remanded to Masaka Prison on February 2.
While in prison, Kabugo’s lawyer Chrisestom Katumba lodged an appeal with the DPP against the murder charge. Katumba in his successful petition to the DPP protested the hurried way the Principal State Attorney’s office in Masaka revised the original traffic offense to murder. And that some statements on the original file disappeared mysteriously.
After investigations in Kampala, the DPP dropped the murder charge.
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