Again, according to the envoy’s relatives, not a single bone in the dead boy’s body had been fractured as would have been expected after a fall from such a height.
Jinja Road police in Kampala is holding a 40-year old woman who is suspected to have starved her biological underage son to death. Police have identified the suspect as Joline Mutesi Dusabe and the deceased as Nganwa Rugari.
It is alleged that Dusabe duped police that the boy had fallen from the second floor of the house where they stay in Mutungo, in the suburbs of Kampala.
Dusabe is the wife of Chris Rugari, Uganda’s envoy to Zimbabwe, and a prominent cross border businessman.
According to police detectives who visited the scene after the arrest of Dusabe, the floor where she alleges that the dead child fell from has concrete pavements and yet his body did not bear a single bruise to back her claims.
Secondly, the detectives, on closer examination of the body, discovered that the stomach was empty, an indication which points to starvation prior to the deceased’s death. The unidentified house girl was arrested together with her boss.
Trouble began with the unceremonial separation of the suspect with her husband Chris Rugari with whom they have five children. However, at the time of his death, the baby was due to be taken for a DNA test following the father’s suspicion that it could have been fathered by another man.
Earlier, Rugari had sought a legal separation order from court over alleged promiscuity of his wife, following a DNA test on the elder four children, where results that only two of them were biologically Rugari’s.
Baby Nganwa died on Wednesday April 2, 2025. The mother says she rushed him to hospital after falling from the second floor of their house at Mutungo zone 8 in Nakawa Municipality. They were said to have been discharged the same day as the baby showed signs of improvement. But that the following day, the baby’s condition worsened and he breathed heavily and with difficulty, whereupon she caused an ambulance to take him back to hospital.
On arrival at the hospital she says, the baby was declared dead, and she abruptly started calling her husband’s relatives to arrange for his burial, which caused suspicion and they asked police to investigate the matter.
Investigations show that the court had recently directed that all the five children of the Rugari’s undergo a common DNA test including the dead one. Relatives wondered why the two children earlier declared to have been fathered outside Rugari’s home had been taken to an unknown place by their mother, and what her motive was. It is said that a medical report showed that the body bore neither scratches nor any abnormalities like a bulging tummy, and so ruled out the report of having fallen from the second floor.
Again, according to the envoy’s relatives, not a single bone in the dead boy’s body had been fractured as would have been expected after a fall from such a height.
KMP Assistant Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire confirmed the foregoing, and added that Dusabe had been arrested following a medical report conflicting with her statement.
*Source – Bukedde Paper*