Three people including a pregnant housewife, her maid and a bodaboda cyclist of Wakiso district have been remanded to Kigo prison for allegedly conniving to defile and kill a S.3 student.
Court has identified the suspects as; Musa Lubowa, a bodaboda rider, Joyce Masembe, wife to the deceased’s father Richard Mugarura and her maid, Hadijah Kenyana.
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The trio appeared before Wakiso Chief Magistrate’s Court chaired by Magistrate Evelyn Najjuuko. It is alleged that the bodaboda rider, Lubowa first defiled the deceased, Faith Kirabo, a Senior Three Student at St. George High School at Kasenjejje village in Wakiso district. Court heard that Lubowa later suffocated Kirabo to death and dumped her body in a goat’s pen.
After their arrest, police checked Kenyana’s mobile phone, followed one of the numbers that had been used to call her and detected a conversation making the layout of the murder plan.
They then tracked the bodaboda rider’s phone number and arrested him after arresting Masembe and the house maid.
The three were charged with three counts including defilement, theft and murder. Lubowa who is said to have been hired by Masembe, the step mother to the late Kirabo, is alleged to have defiled her and stolen her property including a mobile phone, before killing her by suffocation.
According to the deceased’s paternal aunt called Claire Ainenema, the body had multiple wounds, and the nostrils and mouth had been stuffed with clothes, indicating that she could have been suffocated to death.
Ainenema who was in tears said the trio began by transferring the dead girl from her old school at Kanyogoga and taking her to the new school in the neighbourhood of their home.
She said further that their mission to transfer the deceased was to bring her closer, and that the mission took them three days to accomplish.
Wakiso court prosecutor Precious Atuhaire told court that investigations were still ongoing, while the magistrate advised the accused not to take any plea saying that her court had no jurisdiction to preside over a capital offence.