President Museveni's 'girl' taken for treatment

By Aloysius Byamukama

BUSHENYI  -  Gloria Akankunda, the girl from Bushenyi whom the president had offered to take for treatment, has been taken to Kampala.

Akankunda was on Wednesday picked from her home in Nyamiyaga, Kyeizooba in Bushenyi district, by 'people' from State House.

According to her aunt Mauda Kyomugasho who was at home at the time, Akankunda was picked by two men from the President's Office, from her grandfather's house at around 4:00pm.

Akankunda with her grand parents; Enock Rwamwiru and Gladys Rwamwiru

Akankunda 17, was spotted by president Museveni while at the closure of the 2015 West Ankore Youth convention where he was chief guest on Sunday, January 10.

While there, together with West Ankore Bishop Yonah Katonene and the Archbishop Church of Uganda Stanley Ntagali,  the president noticed Akankunda in the crowd with a terrible health condition and the closely observant Museveni, ordered aides to take her details.

Akankunda, who they say was born with the condition, has one side of her face swollen and the skin of the affected part looking burnt from inside.

Mbarara Municipality MP Dr Bitekyerezo says such ailments are associated with clotting of the blood in the carotid artery, making the circulation of blood to the face and brain difficult hence affecting the person in that way.

Kyomugasho said that Museveni's people told her that she was being taken to Mulago for treatment.