Muhammad Nsubuga, the Southern Regional Police spokesman, says that the CID Headquarters intervened following constant pleas from the victim’s family and the public to arrest the suspect.
According to the 14-year-old victim, the councilor tricked her to pick a container from the house to buy food for him from her mother’s restaurant. He instead allegedly locked the door and chloroformed her before proceeding to defile her.
Ssempijja hit Nassali on the head with a bottle. Nassali bled profusely from the deep cut she sustained but later died shortly after reaching Mukwano Medical Centre.
Paul Mwanje, one of the residents cultivating the disputed land says despite obtaining tenancy certificates from Buganda Land Board, the known custodians of the land, prison administrators have insisted on crossing their boundaries to take over people’s plantations.
The deceased have been identified as Ziad Nsereko and William Zziwa. They were trying to escape from UPDF soldiers who raided the landing site in the illegal fishing operation.
According to Barnabas Rugyenda, an enforcement officer in Kalungu attached to the district veterinary office, the impounded cattle were being transported from Tanzania to Kampala through Kalungu district despite the livestock quarantine which was recently placed on most parts of the cattle corridor districts following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD).
The deceased identified as Joseph Ssentongo was last seen last night in a local bar at around 9pm where he had gone to drink with friends but he did not return home the whole night.
At the burial of Ssenteza on Monday in Kirowooza village, Kalungu District the NUP Secretary-General David Lewis Rubongoya dismissed the security report arguing that it was intended to hide the truth of what happened.
In a homily during a funeral Mass at Ntale Village in Kalungu district, the Bishop Emeritus John Baptist Kaggwa complained about the security forces executing their duties with a lot of biasness, which he says negates the principles of democratic political participation in the country.
