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15-year old housemaid arrested over murder
15-year old housemaid arrested over murder.
What you need to know:
- Mr Zacharia Mbabazi, the OC CID, Entebbe main police station confirmed the arrest while addressing press: “We have taken the body to Mulago for a post-mortem and have the suspect in custody to help us in our investigations,” he said
- Mr. Paul Zikuliza, the area LCI chairman condemned the act describing it as inhumane and called for the arrest of the perpetrators of such crimes.
ENTEBBE: Police in Entebbe has arrested a 15-year-old for allegedly killing a man only identified as Mukisa. The killing happened this morning. Mukisa was employed as a shamba boy in the same home the girl worked in, belonging to Ms Cotilda Nankya, located in Lugonjo, Nakiwogo.
Eyewitnesses at the scene said that the girl allegedly slit the shamba boy’s throat during a scuffle after the deceased approached her and told her to desist from pouring rubbish in the pigs’ food, that Mukisa looked after.
Mr Zacharia Mbabazi, the OC CID, Entebbe main police station confirmed the arrest while addressing press: “We have taken the body to Mulago for a post-mortem and have the suspect in custody to help us in our investigations,” he said.
The girl while at Entebbe police station stated: “I was in the kitchen cutting onions and Mukisa came in quarrelling and asking me why I had thrown rubbish into the pigs feeds. He then walked towards me and tried to strangle me, I don't know how the knife cut him but it wasn't me who cut him," she said.
Mr. Paul Zikuliza, the area LCI chairman condemned the act describing it as inhumane and called for the arrest of the perpetrators of such crimes.
