Mum kills her twins, blames poverty
May 31, 2010
THE Police in Kampala are holding an 18-year-old woman over dumping her 21-day-old twins in a pit-latrine. She claimed she could not afford to look after the babies as a single mother.
By Herbert Ssempogo
THE Police in Kampala are holding an 18-year-old woman over dumping her twins in a pit-latrine.
According to the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokeperson, Henry Kalulu, Annet Nambalirwa strangled her 21-day-old twins, a boy and a girl, on Saturday and stuffed their bodies in a pit-latrine in Nsangi on the Kampala-Masaka highway.
But Nambalirwa, who wept uncontrollably, denied strangling the babies.
“They were alive when I dumped them in the pit-latrine. When I heard them crying, I was so touched and rushed to inform someone.
But the babies were dead by the time the Police arrived,†she told journalists at the Central Police Station in Kampala yesterday.
Nambalirwa said the father of the children, only identified as Njagala, a hawker, abandoned her after she became pregnant, adding that she could not afford to look after the babies.
Kalulu said Nambalirwa would be charged with murder and Njagala with child neglect.
There have been several family tragedies as a result of marital problems in recent years.
Last year, Margaret Kasande, living in Kamwokya, a city suburb, strangled her three children, aged four, three and 18 months. She tried to kill herself but survived and was admitted to Butabika hospital.
In 2007, Abdallah Byekwaso of Kibaale district took a machete and hacked to death his wife and six children before hanging himself.
Only one of his children, a girl who was staying with a relative in a nearby village, survived.
According to the Police, 46 cases of infanticide occurred last year.
Yesterday, the Police also paraded Hudson Okwir, 29, who stabbed his father to death on Saturday morning following a misunderstanding.
Police records show that Patrick Ego, who was a resident of Kisaasi, a city suburb, asked Okwir to wash the family vehicle, which annoyed him, Kalulu said.
“While Ego was sitting on the veranda, Okwir poured water on him.
“He then dashed to the house, picked a kitchen knife and stabbed his father in the chest and the back,†Kalulu narrated.
Ego, who was an employee of Orient Bank in Kampala, died on the spot.
THE Police in Kampala are holding an 18-year-old woman over dumping her twins in a pit-latrine.
According to the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokeperson, Henry Kalulu, Annet Nambalirwa strangled her 21-day-old twins, a boy and a girl, on Saturday and stuffed their bodies in a pit-latrine in Nsangi on the Kampala-Masaka highway.
But Nambalirwa, who wept uncontrollably, denied strangling the babies.
“They were alive when I dumped them in the pit-latrine. When I heard them crying, I was so touched and rushed to inform someone.
But the babies were dead by the time the Police arrived,†she told journalists at the Central Police Station in Kampala yesterday.
Nambalirwa said the father of the children, only identified as Njagala, a hawker, abandoned her after she became pregnant, adding that she could not afford to look after the babies.
Kalulu said Nambalirwa would be charged with murder and Njagala with child neglect.
There have been several family tragedies as a result of marital problems in recent years.
Last year, Margaret Kasande, living in Kamwokya, a city suburb, strangled her three children, aged four, three and 18 months. She tried to kill herself but survived and was admitted to Butabika hospital.
In 2007, Abdallah Byekwaso of Kibaale district took a machete and hacked to death his wife and six children before hanging himself.
Only one of his children, a girl who was staying with a relative in a nearby village, survived.
According to the Police, 46 cases of infanticide occurred last year.
Yesterday, the Police also paraded Hudson Okwir, 29, who stabbed his father to death on Saturday morning following a misunderstanding.
Police records show that Patrick Ego, who was a resident of Kisaasi, a city suburb, asked Okwir to wash the family vehicle, which annoyed him, Kalulu said.
“While Ego was sitting on the veranda, Okwir poured water on him.
“He then dashed to the house, picked a kitchen knife and stabbed his father in the chest and the back,†Kalulu narrated.
Ego, who was an employee of Orient Bank in Kampala, died on the spot.