Mukono man, 60, held over defilement

Police in Mukono district are holding a sixty-year-old man thought to have had carnal knowledge with a 16-year-old student.

Vianney Nkusi was arrested by local leaders on Monday and taken to police after he was found with the girl inside his home in Mukono Central Division.

Ngandu village chairperson Ibrahim Kitenda said the teenager is a Senior Two student.

He said he first got reports from the suspect's neighbours that Nkusi was hosting a schoolgirl at his home whom they suspected to be his girlfriend.

"I couldn't act on rumors so I asked them to go back and spy on the old man and call me immediately when the girl comes back at his residence. It's those neighbours that alerted me today as the girl entered Nkusi's house in a school uniform," said Kitenda on Monday.

He added that by the time he (Kitenda) and other local leaders reached Nkusi's home after the tip-off, the girl had already removed her school uniform.

"Upon calling her out, she showed up in Nkusi's shirt and wrapped in a bed-sheet. When we searched the house, we recovered her uniform - a skirt and a blouse - plus her book-filled bag," said Kitenda.

Here, Ngandu village chairman Ibrahim Kitenda shows the girl's school uniform found inside Nkusi's house. (Credit: Henry Nsubuga)

The girl said it was her fourth time at Nkusi's home and asked for forgiveness, saying she would not go back there again.

On his part, Nkusi asked for pardon and made two agreements, offering the local authorities sh300,000 cash and his cow if let free.

However the chairperson declined to let him free and took him to Mukono Police Station to face the law.

At Police, the suspect said the girl had just gone to his home to ask for help after reportedly being sent away from school because of unsettled school dues.

When asked whether he was the girl's parent, Nkusi bashfully said that it was the girl who insisted on entering his house despite his resistance to the idea.

Mukono Division Police commander Boniface Kinyera and the officer in charge of crime, Ibrah Batasi were yet to comment.

Nkusi writes two agreements that he would give sh300,000 and a cow if let free. However he was taken to police. (Credit: Henry Nsubuga)