Reporters without Borders urges Ugandan Police to share it’s investigations of those who brutally murdered New vision Journalist Thomas Pere and immediately bring those culprits to Justice
Reporters without Borders urges Ugandan Police to share it's investigations of those who brutally murdered New vision Journalist Thomas Pere and immediately bring those culprits to Justice
Inspector General of Police ,Kare Kayihura is urged by Media activist bodies to share his investigations with the public in order to know Killed New vision reporters
In a press release copied to Umuvugizi by the media activist body "Reporters Without Borders" which is shocked by last night but one's murder of Thomas Pere, a reporter for the state-owned New Vision media group in the Ugandan capital of Kampala where his body was found early that morning in an open field a few miles outside the city.
"It is clear from the injuries to Pere's body and the way it was found that his death was not accidental, and that in fact he was murdered," Reporters Without Borders said. " It went on and said that the motive, and whether it was linked to his work, is not yet clear but so far everything suggests that it was not a robbery.
"We welcome the fact that the police lost no time in starting an investigation. We urge them to shed all possible light on the circumstances of Pere's death in order to identify and arrest the perpetrators and instigators." Said Reporters without borders
Pere was last seen in the New Vision newsroom at around 8 p.m. yesterday but one evening before he left to go home. The police found his body at 6 a.m. yesterday in an open field in Massajja, beside the highway from Kampala to Entebbe, the town where he lived.
The police said they did not think he was killed at the place where the body was found. None of his personal effects had been taken. His mobile phone, wallet and two credit cards were all found in his pockets, suggesting that robbery must be ruled out as a motive.
Kampala police spokesman Ibin Ssenkumbi said he appeared to have been killed by a blow to the head with blunt object.
Pere covered society stories for the entertainment and supplements sections and was an active member of the Uganda Tourism Press Association.
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