Boy still missing after one week of search

Jun 13, 2010

TOMORROW will be a week since a one-year-old boy disappeared from his parents’ home in Bugolobi, a Kampala city suburb. Although a multi-security agency committee was set up to trace Khan Kakama, his whereabouts are still not known.

By Herbert Ssempogo
and Eddie Sejjoba


TOMORROW will be a week since a one-year-old boy disappeared from his parents’ home in Bugolobi, a Kampala city suburb. Although a multi-security agency committee was set up to trace Khan Kakama, his whereabouts were still not known by yesterday.

However, his captors, with numerous demands, have kept in contact with the desperate family, according to the boy’s mother, Naome Karekaho.

By press time, the family offer of sh5m for anyone with information leading to his return also remained unclaimed.
Several posters with his picture were circulated in Bugolobi trading centre and the nearby suburbs.

The Police yesterday declined to comment on the matter, saying they did not want to jeopardise the investigations.

Karekaho, an employee of the National Environment Management Authority, was inconsolable yesterday. “I have been at home since he went missing. All I need now is to have him back here,” she said on phone.

Karekaho’s two sisters were optimistic that their nephew would be home soon.
Kakama went missing last Tuesday from the Bugolobi flats, an upscale estate.

One of Karekaho’s housekeeper, 21-year-old Molly Nabaasa, suspected of conniving with the captors, is detained at the Rapid Response Unit headquarters in Kireka.

Reports said Nabaasa handed over the child to a light-skinned man, whose identity remains unknown.

The disappearance was reported by another house-help, who rang the mother after Nabasaa returned without Kakama.

Before leaving the house, Nabaasa reportedly told her colleague that she was going to buy airtime for her cell phone from a shop located on Block 22.

According to the 2009 Police report, 848 juveniles were reported missing. Some of them were found, others were killed in ritual ceremonies while others are still missing.

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