Mbabazi suspect exhumed, reburied
May 14, 2009
THE body of the man who was shot dead at security minister Amama Mbabazi’s home in Kololo, a Kampala suburb, was buried on Monday, exhumed two days later and reburied at Bukasa Cemetery in Wakiso district.
By Chris Kiwawulo
THE body of the man who was shot dead at security minister Amama Mbabazi’s home in Kololo, a Kampala suburb, was buried on Monday, exhumed two days later and reburied at Bukasa Cemetery in Wakiso district.
Mulago Hospital spokesperson Eliphaz Ssekabira said the unidentified man was buried at the Kampala City Council Cemetery in Bukasa on the periphery of Kampala after no body claimed it.
“The media reports that the body had been stolen are false. When a body spends time at the mortuary unclaimed, we bury it at gazetted places,†Ssekabira explained.
The decomposing body, sources disclosed, was letting off a foul stench because it had not been treated.
When the Police learnt that the body had been taken away from the mortuary, they asked the hospital administration where it had been buried and exhumed it on Wednesday.
The Police took specimens of different body parts to the Government chemist in Wandegeya before reburying it.
Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said they exhumed the body to take specimen for future investigations.
“Those specimens might be required in the future when the file comes up. We also avoid being tasked to exhume the body in the future,†Nabakooba said.
The unidentified man was shot inside Mbabazi’s perimeter fence by guards a week ago after he allegedly tried to run away.
The guards said he ignored instructions to stop.
He died moments after arriving at Mulago Hospital, according to Edward Ochom, the CID chief.
“And because he died at Mulago, this is the reason his body was kept at the hospital morgue,†Ochom said.
Under normal practice, bodies of persons who die outside the hospital are kept at the city mortuary adjacent to the hospital morgue.
THE body of the man who was shot dead at security minister Amama Mbabazi’s home in Kololo, a Kampala suburb, was buried on Monday, exhumed two days later and reburied at Bukasa Cemetery in Wakiso district.
Mulago Hospital spokesperson Eliphaz Ssekabira said the unidentified man was buried at the Kampala City Council Cemetery in Bukasa on the periphery of Kampala after no body claimed it.
“The media reports that the body had been stolen are false. When a body spends time at the mortuary unclaimed, we bury it at gazetted places,†Ssekabira explained.
The decomposing body, sources disclosed, was letting off a foul stench because it had not been treated.
When the Police learnt that the body had been taken away from the mortuary, they asked the hospital administration where it had been buried and exhumed it on Wednesday.
The Police took specimens of different body parts to the Government chemist in Wandegeya before reburying it.
Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said they exhumed the body to take specimen for future investigations.
“Those specimens might be required in the future when the file comes up. We also avoid being tasked to exhume the body in the future,†Nabakooba said.
The unidentified man was shot inside Mbabazi’s perimeter fence by guards a week ago after he allegedly tried to run away.
The guards said he ignored instructions to stop.
He died moments after arriving at Mulago Hospital, according to Edward Ochom, the CID chief.
“And because he died at Mulago, this is the reason his body was kept at the hospital morgue,†Ochom said.
Under normal practice, bodies of persons who die outside the hospital are kept at the city mortuary adjacent to the hospital morgue.