By press time, it had been confirmed that Robert Mutebi had decided to petition court to order for the exhumation of Namirembe’s body, and take a DNA test to ascertain her paternity.
Robert Mutebi, one of the two men claiming paternity of the late former student of the Kampala branch of Uganda Christian University (UCU) Angella Namirembe is spitting fire and categorizing Mukono Municipality MP Betty Nambooze Bakireke as a traitor for concealing issues relating the deceased to a US-based Ugandan called Lawrence Kiwanuka, till the time of her death.
Kiwanuka expressed amazement to hear that Nambooze had sent an ambulance to Mulago mortuary to pick the body as a relative and not a close friend. “I have always known Nambooze to be a friend to my daughter and I was surprised to hear she was claiming to be her brother’s daughter; and to imagine that she has all along concealed this matter from me!”, Mutebi lamented.
Making announcements of her death on social media handles, Nambooze said she was an aunt to Namirembe because she added, she has been the daughter of Lawrence Kiwanuka Nsereko, also a member of the ‘Kkobe’ clan like her.
The deceased succumbed to fatal injuries she sustained when a bodaboda cycle she was on Monday travelling on was knocked by a motor vehicle, leading to her death. She was buried at Jjalamba village in Buwama sub-county, Mpigi district.
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The deceased’s mother, Agnes Nabisere, during a requiem mass in church, confirmed Kiwanuka as the rightful father of her daughter, and reiterated the same statement during burial.
By press time, it had been confirmed that Robert Mutebi had decided to petition court to order for the exhumation of Namirembe’s body, and take a DNA test to ascertain her paternity.
He had earlier secured a belated Mengo court order stopping her burial and directing that the body be returned to Mulago mortuary for four days during which Mutebi was expected to have secured a DNA test from the Directorate of Government Analytical Laboratory (DGAL) at Wandegeya.
According to the court order, both parties were directed to inform their lawyers to follow up the matter, with Mutebi meeting all costs of the process. Unfortunately for Mutebi, all this was finalized hours after the burial of the dead student.
Subsequently, he has directed his lawyers to, not later than Monday 27th October 2025, to file a fresh application for a High Court exhumation order of Namirembe for samples of her remains to be tallied with those of the two men.