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Maj. Gen. James Kazini’s lover, who is being held on suspicion of murder, on Tuesday narrated to this newspaper the events that led to the soldier’s death
yesterday morning.
Ms Lydia Draru, who is being held at Central Police Station, spoke to Daily Monitor less than an hour after the
murder allegedly took place. “I have killed him,” Ms Draru said, motioning towards the
former army commander’s lifeless body that lay a couple of feet away. “I hit him three times with an iron bar and killed him.”
She added: “We were out drinking yesterday and came back early in the morning, but he kept on accusing me of infidelity. He drank spirits at the three bars we visited in Muyenga. When we returned home, he kept on quarrelling and threatening he would kill me, he got out a pistol and pointed it upwards and at one point he got a bottle of Black Label whisky and smashed it on the table. It is then that I got an iron bar and smashed his head three times.”
When Daily Monitor arrived at the couple’s semi-detached house in Project Zone at Wabigalo, a city suburb, yesterday morning, Ms Draru was seated calmly on the veranda, with freshly-arrived police officers securing the crime scene.
A friend to Gen. Kazini, who asked not to be identified in this report, told Daily Monitor that he met Gen. Kazini and Ms Draru at about 5p.m. at Muyenga International Hotel in the company of an elderly woman he believes was Kazini’s relative.
Ms Lydia Draru, who is being held at Central Police Station, spoke to Daily Monitor less than an hour after the
murder allegedly took place. “I have killed him,” Ms Draru said, motioning towards the
former army commander’s lifeless body that lay a couple of feet away. “I hit him three times with an iron bar and killed him.”She added: “We were out drinking yesterday and came back early in the morning, but he kept on accusing me of infidelity. He drank spirits at the three bars we visited in Muyenga. When we returned home, he kept on quarrelling and threatening he would kill me, he got out a pistol and pointed it upwards and at one point he got a bottle of Black Label whisky and smashed it on the table. It is then that I got an iron bar and smashed his head three times.”
When Daily Monitor arrived at the couple’s semi-detached house in Project Zone at Wabigalo, a city suburb, yesterday morning, Ms Draru was seated calmly on the veranda, with freshly-arrived police officers securing the crime scene.
A friend to Gen. Kazini, who asked not to be identified in this report, told Daily Monitor that he met Gen. Kazini and Ms Draru at about 5p.m. at Muyenga International Hotel in the company of an elderly woman he believes was Kazini’s relative.
THE OTHER WOMAN: Ms Draru in a Police pick up. PHOTO BY JOSEPH KIGGUNDU
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Snivelling prostitute...
Ms Draru was crying and nibbling at fruits while Kazini and the other person were having their meal, the general’s friend said. He wondered why Ms Draru was crying and asked Kazini to comfort her, but he jokingly dismissed the issue as the ‘snivelling of a prostitute’. The friend let the matter be and soon departed.
Gen. Kazini and Ms Draru then visited two other bars in the course of the night before dropping off Draru at her home in Wabigalo. Gen. Kazini, who was being driven in an army car, then returned to his home in Konge near Lukuli at around 5am.
According to his official driver who wished his name kept out of the press, the army officer received a telephone call soon after arriving home. He instructed the driver to stay on standby because they had a journey to make in the morning, and left.
Leaving his phone near the chair where he had sat, Gen. Kazini drove his Land Cruiser, which spots license plates from Southern Sudan, back to Ms Draru’s home.
A neighbour in the adjoining section of the semi-detached house told Daily Monitor that she woke up in the morning to prepare to go to work, but realised there was a brawl next door.
Shouting
She narrated: “The woman was shouting that she was tired of Kazini, so he should leave her and the man was saying he rents the house, therefore it is his house and it is the woman who must leave. He also demanded that the woman gives him back his money; the woman speaking at the top of her voice and the man keeping his voice low. At that point I heard the sound of breaking glass followed by a sound of something being hit, then silence. When I peeped, there was blood flowing from the entrance to their house.”
When Daily Monitor visited the scene, Gen. Kazini’s body had a deep wound just above the forehead and a long gash from the right ear to the back of the head. A hollow-section iron bar, which Police believe could be the murder weapon, was lying next to the body in a pool of blood and grey brain matter. Inside, furniture was strewn all over the sitting room with broken glass and picture frames littering the floor.
The house later turned into a hive of activity as forensic investigators collected evidence. Outside, friends, relatives and local residents waited to catch a glimpse of the body which was taken away at 10.30a.m. There was a sense of disbelief in the air that Gen. Kazini, who survived wars in DR Congo, Kasese and Northern Uganda, could be felled by a woman in a domestic dispute. Outside, among the throngs of on-lookers, a young boy wore a tattered black T-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘Make Love, not War”. Inside lay a man who’d killed in the name of war and had died in the name of love.
Ms Draru was crying and nibbling at fruits while Kazini and the other person were having their meal, the general’s friend said. He wondered why Ms Draru was crying and asked Kazini to comfort her, but he jokingly dismissed the issue as the ‘snivelling of a prostitute’. The friend let the matter be and soon departed.
Gen. Kazini and Ms Draru then visited two other bars in the course of the night before dropping off Draru at her home in Wabigalo. Gen. Kazini, who was being driven in an army car, then returned to his home in Konge near Lukuli at around 5am.
According to his official driver who wished his name kept out of the press, the army officer received a telephone call soon after arriving home. He instructed the driver to stay on standby because they had a journey to make in the morning, and left.
Leaving his phone near the chair where he had sat, Gen. Kazini drove his Land Cruiser, which spots license plates from Southern Sudan, back to Ms Draru’s home.
A neighbour in the adjoining section of the semi-detached house told Daily Monitor that she woke up in the morning to prepare to go to work, but realised there was a brawl next door.
Shouting
She narrated: “The woman was shouting that she was tired of Kazini, so he should leave her and the man was saying he rents the house, therefore it is his house and it is the woman who must leave. He also demanded that the woman gives him back his money; the woman speaking at the top of her voice and the man keeping his voice low. At that point I heard the sound of breaking glass followed by a sound of something being hit, then silence. When I peeped, there was blood flowing from the entrance to their house.”
When Daily Monitor visited the scene, Gen. Kazini’s body had a deep wound just above the forehead and a long gash from the right ear to the back of the head. A hollow-section iron bar, which Police believe could be the murder weapon, was lying next to the body in a pool of blood and grey brain matter. Inside, furniture was strewn all over the sitting room with broken glass and picture frames littering the floor.
The house later turned into a hive of activity as forensic investigators collected evidence. Outside, friends, relatives and local residents waited to catch a glimpse of the body which was taken away at 10.30a.m. There was a sense of disbelief in the air that Gen. Kazini, who survived wars in DR Congo, Kasese and Northern Uganda, could be felled by a woman in a domestic dispute. Outside, among the throngs of on-lookers, a young boy wore a tattered black T-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘Make Love, not War”. Inside lay a man who’d killed in the name of war and had died in the name of love.
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