Mugarura (inset) checks his trousers to asses the damage

THE dramatic news rocked Rugyerera village in Kashari county Mbarara district on Saturday when Kyomugisha grabbed what she called Mugarura’s offending penis and cut it off.

The angry mother seemed to have zealously heeded the advice by former ethics minister and Mbarara Woman MP, Miria Matembe, that defilers should be castrated.

Earlier, Kyomugisha said she had caught her neighbour Mugarura red handed defiling her last born. The village chairman, Laban Kyomukama said: “I found Mugarura weeping like a kid.

“When I asked him what had happened, he kept quiet.

“On checking, I found he was bleeding in the private parts and when I uncovered him, I almost ran away because the penis was not there”.
He added that Kyomugisha attacked Mugarura at around 9:00am.

Responding to a tip-off by a source, The New Vision team rushed to the scene where Kyomugisha admitted punishing Mugarura.

She explained that she weeding her banana plantation when she heard her daughter’s alarm.

“I was shocked and angry when I found the old man on top of my youngest child. At first I thought it a wild animal had attacked her but when the alarm persisted, I rushed to her rescue,” Kyomukama said.

“On reaching there, I found him defiling the child in a bush behind the house. I was lucky that he was still naked. I used the knife I had in my garden pack to cut of his offending organ.”

As a crowd gathered at the scene, it took almost an hour to recover Mugarura’s penis since Kyomugisha had flung it deep into the long couch grass behind the house.

Residents looked for it to no avail until a dog was seen trying to run away with the organ. But an old man beat the dog, which dropped it and ran away.

In deep pain Magarura managed to say: “I have never experienced such pain since I was born. I don’t know if I will get a specialist doctor to put it back.”

He refused to comment on the defilement allegations. The case was reported to Bwizibwera Police Station. Magarura was admitted to Mbarara hospital.

The Mbarara Hospital medical superintendent, Dr. Placid Mihayo yesterday said that the bleeding had stopped after they applied dressings.

He noted that Mugarura could now sit.
Asked whether the penis would be re-attached, he said: “The severed part was thrown away. The stump will be refashioned so that he can pass urine, but what is clear is that Mugarura will not regain his manhood.”