Luke Owoyesigyire, the Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson identifies the deceased as 27-year-old James Eyangu, the former president of Makerere College of Veterinary Medicine. He graduated on Wednesday in Biomedical Laboratory Technology.
A former student of Makerere University has
been found dead in his room barely a week after his graduation. Luke Owoyesigyire, the Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson identifies
the deceased as 27-year-old James Eyangu, the former president of Makerere
College of Veterinary Medicine. He graduated on Wednesday in Biomedical
Laboratory Technology.
His lifeless body was found lying in his rented room in Kikumi Kikumi
in Makerere, a Kampala city suburb. According to Police, the deceased’s body is
lying at the city mortuary Mulago pending postmortem. Preliminary police findings
show that the deceased was last seen alive by one of his neighbours identified
as Caroline Akol on Friday.
“Akol told officers that she last saw the deceased on Friday morning
at about 8 am when she borrowed a plastic stool from him,'' said Owoyesigyire.
She also noted after borrowing the stool, she left for the university but on
returning home, she found Eyangu’s door closed.
“She thought the deceased had moved out until Sunday night when she experienced
a bad smell from the deceased’s room and immediately reported to the custodian
of Elite Hostel one Ssesanga Marvin who also reported to Police,” he said. According
to Owoyesigyire, when Police opened Eyangu’s door, they found his lifeless body
lying on the bed.
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Eyangu acted in the ‘more Supu’ MTN Uganda advert making him a darling
of many, especially on social media. His close friends in the university
indicated that at the time of his death, Eyangu was creating a YouTube channel
for distributing his content.
Mugisha James
Freelancer