Tables turn on mom who threatened to dump son

Nov 13, 2010

SHE went to the Police to seek permission to dump her son at the father’s place, accusing him of not providing for the two-year-old. However, the Police, instead, sent Pauline Nakaweesi to Mulago Hospital, so that her son, Hassan Ssemujju, could get treatment.

By Gladys Kalibbala

SHE went to the Police to seek permission to dump her son at the father’s place, accusing him of not providing for the two-year-old. However, the Police, instead, sent Pauline Nakaweesi to Mulago Hospital, so that her son, Hassan Ssemujju, could get treatment.

As the mother and Ssemujju headed to Mulago, the head of the Family Protection Unit at Old Kampala Police Station, Margaret Andiru, got in touch with Nakaweesi’s husband, Moses Kavuma. After the Police traced the taxi driver at Nansana stage, Andiru drove with him to Mulago.

The two were, however, shocked to discover that Nakaweesi did not even register in the hospital books. She, instead, vanished from the premises.

“I had talked to the staff who promised to admit her, and send her to Mwanamugimu Unit for the necessary urgent attention,” Andiru explained.

When she called Nakaweesi, the mother said she could not waste her time in the hospital with a ‘bewitched’ child. Andiru’s pleas to make her come to the Police for peace-talks with the husband were futile as she switched off her phone.

“We are hunting for her on charges of child neglect,” the Police officer said.

Kavuma explained that he was a married man and could not take Nakaweesi to his home. He, instead, took her to his parent’s home, where she ran away after abusing her father-in-law.

girl, 17, disappears from Kenya

Blessing Chepet, 17, a Kenyan girl from Cheptis District, Kenya, is stranded at the Central Police Station (CPS) in Kampala where she had gone to ask for a letter to allow her look for casual work in the city.

The fourth child in a family of seven explained that her father pulled her out of school after a misunderstanding. She said she was in S.4 at Namangofulo SS in Bungoma. Her mother, Evelyn Hissa, is a businesswoman in Cheptis, Chebukube, Kenya.

The in-charge, Family and Child Protection at the station, Ketty Nandi, said they were in contact with the Kenyan Embassy to re-unite the girl with her parents.

Nandudu wants to go to mbale

Madinah Nandudu, 12, is stuck at CPS in Kampala after she lost her way home. Nandudu said her aunt, Amiina Nekesa, a traditional healer in Arua, had taken her for holidays early this year. However, she said, Nekesa refused to take her back home for studies.

The P.6 pupil at Bwihonge Primary School in Mbale said, instead, she was hawking food in Arua town. Her father is Justin Wanda, while the mother is Mary Namutosi of Muyembe village in Mbale. When she demanded to be taken back home in Mbale, Nekesa gave her sh20,000 and told her to pay half the fare since she was young.

Nandudu explained that on entering the Kampala-bound bus, they asked for sh 20,000, which she paid and asked to be taken to the Police for assistance when she reached Kampala. She said her other relative, Stephen Wamoyo, is a mechanic in Kibaale District.

Kiwanuka boarded wrong taxi

A primary one pupil of Kiira Primary School near Kampala, Ayub Kiwanuka, got lost in Mukono town over the weekend. He said his father, Musisi Lubowa, is a builder, while the mother, Margaret Night, sells fish at Kalerwe Market.

Kiwanuka had accompanied his mother to a burial in Mukono. When they were leaving, he boarded a different taxi which abandoned him at Mukono since no one knew him. A Good Samaritan took him to Mukono Police station at night.

Kyalisime wants to go home

Joselyn Kyalisime, 7, was rushed to the Police by a neighbour, Nankumba, after she was beaten by her aunt, Scovia Nyakwento of Mulago village, near Kampala.

She reached the Wandegeya Police Station with a swollen knee, which made it difficult for her to walk. She said her aunt had brought her to Kampala for treatment.

Kyalisime pleaded with the Police to re-unite her with her parents in Ntutu village, Kamwenge, where her father, Godfrey and mother, Specioza, have a small retail shop.

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