Drapi and wife with their recovered baby at Arua regional Police headquarters

By Frank Mugabi

A family in Kawempe was relieved after a dramatic recovery of their one-month-old baby from Southern Sudan. Peter Drapi, the father of the child, said his lastborn disappeared on July 20 with a Congolese businesswoman, Museka Amori, who was a “family friend”.

He said they had often accommodated Amori during her business trips between Kampala and Sudan. On the fateful day, Drapi left for work at the Bujagali Dam construction site in Jinja but was later called back with information that his child had gone missing.

The case was reported to Police although no headway was made. As the search went on, Drapi and his wife, Kadimala Dawa, received information that one of Amori’s associates, Adomati, had been sighted in Juba.

Dawa went to Juba to look for the two suspects but her efforts yielded no results for one month. She then relocated to Yei, where a group of Congolese women said they had seen Amori with a baby but she had disappeared from the area.

Amori had moved to the Sudanese border township of Kaya, where she was arrested. The child was handed to the Sudan Christian Outreach Ministries in Morobo.

Dawa was reunited with her baby last Wednesday after prooving the child was hers.