UGANDAN MAN WHO MURDERED A ZIMBABWEAN MAN IN SOUTH AFRICA AFTER CATCHING HIM WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND IS LINKED TO 3 MORE MURDER CASES IN HIS HOME COUNTRY

Fugitive Ugandan murder suspect, Ali Mugoya, who allegedly killed a Zimbabwean love rival is also wanted for three more murders in his home country.

South African police have launched a nationwide manhunt for Ali Mugoya, a Ugandan national implicated in the brutal killing of Zimbabwean citizen Emmanuel Mahamba.

Mahamba was buried in Zimbabwe last week.

The incident occurred in Rivonia following a violent altercation reportedly centered around a romantic dispute involving Mugoya’s child’s mother. Investigators reveal Mugoya deliberately ran over Mahamba with a Ford Ranger in a parking lot after their physical confrontation. The suspect subsequently abandoned the vehicle and disappeared, prompting police to issue alerts across South Africa.

Mugoya is said to have been involved in a fight with the deceased before running him over. The fight stemmed from information that the deceased was seen holding hands with Mugoya’s baby mama.

Further investigations uncovered Mugoya’s alleged involvement in a high-profile triple murder case in Uganda. The fugitive stands accused of participating in the assassination of former Ugandan police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi along with his driver and bodyguard in 2017.

Court records indicate Mugoya was temporarily released on bail in 2021 alongside co-accused Ahmed Yusufu and Hibwanji Sinani. Rather than facing trial, he allegedly fled Uganda, entering South Africa illegally while evading justice for multiple capital offences.

Meanwhile, Joburg-based activist Moreboys Munetsi is working to help Mahamba’s family in their quest for justice.

On his Facebook page, which has more than 144,000 followers, Munetsi last week held a live conversation with Ntombi, the woman who was involved in a relationship with Mahamba, while she lived with her other romantic partner.

“I agree that I once dated Emmanuel in January, and we broke up in February. Yes, we were in a relationship. We broke up because some Ugandans recorded a video of me when I was with the guy (Emmanuel). My baby daddy is a Ugandan. So, I broke up with Emmanuel for my safety, for my kids and also for the sake of Emmanuel. I stopped talking to Emmanuel.”

Ntombi said on the fateful day, Emmanuel and some Ugandan men who lived at the same house with, came over to her work premises. Ntombi’s baby daddy was already at the business premises, where motorbike parts are sold.

“Later on, I heard some noise, people fighting. When I went outside, I asked Emmanuel what he was doing, but he did not even respond to me; he only looked at me. He was holding a stone, and he threw it away. He picked it again and hit the vehicle’s (wind) screen. That is when my baby daddy got angry, went to Emmanuel and beat him,” she said.

In the video, Ntombi can be seen screaming, frantically trying to stop the Ford Ranger driver.

Narrating how she fell in love with the deceased man, Ntombi said she met Emmanuel at Rivonia, Sandton, as he used to come to the shop that she works at, buying motorbike parts.

She said when she met Emmanuel this year, she was still involved with the Ugandan man although the relationship was experiencing some “difficulties”. Ntombi was living with the Ugandan man when she started dating Emmanuel.

“I had to date Emmanuel,” she told Munetsi in the Facebook live session.

Ntombi has two children with the Ugandan man and the two have been in a relationship for around three years.

The Ugandan men who came to the premises with Emmanuel, according to Ntombi, had previously recorded a video of her and Emmanuel and they had also informed Ntombi’s other boyfriend, the Ugandan man who drives a Ford Ranger.

“Emmanuel had not told me that he was staying (at a house) with Ugandans. I was at Emmanuel’s place, and I went out, they recorded the video and sent it to my boyfriend, the baby daddy. In the video, I was walking while holding hands with Emmanuel. I then told Emmanuel that we had to end our relationship,” she said.

Ntombi said she was confronted angrily by her baby daddy over her romantic relationship with Emmanuel. She said the Ugandan man was very angry, and she decided to end things with Emmanuel.

Police spokesperson, Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi, said police received a complaint regarding the incident and upon arrival, they found a man lying on the side of the road with injuries all over his body.

“The paramedics declared him dead on the scene. According to information at hand, the victim reportedly argued with the shop owner and allegedly hit the shop owner’s vehicle with a brick, breaking the windscreen. The shop owner reportedly came out and drove over his body several times before fleeing the scene,” said Nevhuhulwi. *_-H-Metro_*