By Eddie Ssejjoba and Noah Jagwe

Former Rubaga South MP, Susan Nampijja has “forgiven” her former lover, Godffrey Mukisa who died early Thursday morning at Mulago hospital in Kampala.

Nampijja said she pardoned Mukisa on grounds that he may not have known what he was doing when he attacked her last month.

Mukisa tried to kill the former MP, her niece and housemaid, and then himself on the night of January 28 this year.

From her hospital bed at Case Medical Hospital in Kampala, Nampijja asked God “to forgive Mukisa because even the Bible talks about forgiveness to those who wrong you.”

The former legislator, also a daughter to Rubaga South MP John Ken Lukyamuzi, is still recovering from injuries she sustained during the gruesome attack at her home in Kitebi. On that fateful night, her niece and housemaid, who tried to rescue her from her attacker, also sustained injuries.

Following the murder attempt, Mukisa tried to commit suicide by allegedly taking poison with beer. But he was rushed to Mulago hospital, where he has been under intensive medical care until he succumbed to death Thursday morning.

Mulago hospital spokesperson, Dan Kimosho said that since Mukisa was admitted, doctors had tried all they could to save his life inside the Intensive Care Unit but that the beer he is said to have taken with the poison affected the internal organs, especially the heart.

“I want God to forgive him [Mukisa] him for his wrongdoing. Nobody knows what exactly his intentions were,” Nampijja said.

 Without much explanation, she appealed to fellow women to know their rights and always “fight for them.”

The former MP admitted she only has a vague memory of the events of that fateful Saturday night last month.

Case still on depite Mukisa’s demise    

Meanwhile, despite the death of Mukisa, investigations into his attempt to murder his ex-lover will continue, police has said.

Addressing the media on Thursday, Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Ibin Ssenkumbi assured that Mukisa’s death “would not stop inquiries into the attempted murder case”.

Ssenkumbi explained that Nampijja and the other two girls who were attacked on the night of January 28 had not recorded statements with the police yet but that “if Nampijja confirms that it was Mukisa who attempted to murder them, the file would be closed because there would be nobody to charge.”

However, the police spokesperson said that if there were other people who conspired with Mukisa, police would pursue them.

He said that at the moment, the victims are not yet fit enough to record the statements into the case but once they do and relevant information extracted from them, police will go ahead into the search for the conspirers.