On June 17, 2024, Ayimbisibwe’s lifeless body was discovered wrapped in a sack and dumped in a coffee plantation in the same area. According to Julius Hakiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson, the body had bruises on the neck, indicating that the killers may have strangled him before dumping the body.
Rashid Toko, a brother of the deceased, says Ayiman who has been vending newspapers along Jinja-Road for the last 7-years, was planning to quit vending and join the boda-boda industry, but his dream has been cut short.
This brings to six, the number of people found dead under unclear circumstances in less than two weeks in the municipality. Four of these are not known to locals in the areas where the bodies were found.
Okot Oruk, the Labala Parish LC II Chairperson, says following Oyet’s death, a group of youth from Pachedo clan deceased to invade members of Palwong Pa Boro clan where Abito hails from and torched 18 houses, looted 151 sacks of rice, 32 sacks of beans and millet and an unspecified number of animals.
Charles Mba Ulangi, a resident of Angir cell in Nebbi Municipality, who reported the matter to police, says that the late Ayirwoth was called by the suspect’s husband to spend Monday night with him.
According to the Deputy Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Luke Oweyesigire, the three suspects hired Batte to drive them to Bajjo village in Ggoma but turned against him along the way, strangled and stabbed the victim five times on the head and three times on the right hand.
The deceased’s brother, Ambrose Mbiire, says the officers who were driving on a double cabin vehicle registration number LG0004153 pounced on Mpoza who was in the trading center with his other colleagues and thumped him into coma without explanation.
