Child killed on birthday, body dumped in septic tank

Police in Kampala have launched a manhunt for suspected killers who strangled a two-year-old boy on his birthday and dumped his body in a septic tank.
On December 31, Aluton Kabali’s parents had just celebrated their son’s birthday at their home in Nankinga Zone, Bunamwaya in Wakiso District.
But six hours to the New Year, Kabali was nowhere to be seen. His mother, Sarah Kan, 26, rushed to police in the areas and opened a case of disappearance.
When she returned home, a team she left searching for the missing boy broke the bad news. Her son had been found dead in a septic tank.
Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman Luke Owoyesigyire told Daily Monitor that Ms Kan returned to the police and reported the death.
“At first, the detectives thought it was an incident of negligence of the parents that led to the child crawling into the septic tank and a case of disappearance was amended to rash and negligence,” Mr Owoyesigyire said.
However, when a police forensic team was sent to the scene, it observed that the septic tank was very far from the deceased’s home, casting doubt on whether the boy could have crawled by himself there.
Mr Owoyesigyire said the body was later taken to the city mortuary where pathologists found that he had been strangled before being dumped in the sceptic tank.
“It is a murder case that we are now investigating. The detectives are doing all they can to find the killer or killers. They have some leads which they are following,” he said.

12 others dead
Meanwhile, 12 other people died in crime-related incidents in the last two days, including a woman who killed her boyfriend in Entebbe .
John Owori was stabbed dead by his wife, who accused him of having an affair with a maid at their home in Katabi on Entebbe Road. Owori’s widow has been arrested and detained on murder charges.
In Kikaaya Zone Kampala, Esther Namagembe and her grandmother Anna Nakintu were electrocuted and they died at Mulago on December 31.
The incident happened after Nakintu reportedly touched a neighbour’s electric barbed wire on the wall.
Mr Owoyesigyire said Namagembe picked her grandmother unaware that she was still touching the electric wire and she was also electrocuted.
“Both were rescued and taken to hospital where they later succumbed to injuries. We are still tracing the owners of the structure that had electric barbed wires. Officials from Umeme, a power distributing company, are also helping us investigate whether the owner followed set standards to install electric barbed wires,” he said.