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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police pathologists have ruled out any acts of foul play in the death of a Bweyogerere man who was found dead inside his sister’s car.
Steward Bakkabulindi’s decomposing body was discovered by Mbalwa residents Bweyogerere Division, Kira Municipality, about a fortnight ago.
Bakkabulindi’s relatives led by his elder sister, Rose Nakitto, have been insisting that he was perhaps strangled, driven to Mbalwa and locked inside the car.
But Kampala metropolitan Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, has told URN that postmortem examination conducted by Police pathologists have so far indicated that it was suffocation because all car windows were locked.
Before Bakkabulindi was recovered dead, Nakitto, who had lent her vehicle to him had opened up a case of a missing person at Bweyogerere Police Station. Nakitto said Bakkabulindi told her that he was going to visit his friends but never returned and never responded to the calls.
“He told me that he was going to return quickly. I waited for him in vain. His telephone lines were going through but he was not picking up. We became suspicious and we decided to report the matter to the police,” said Nakitto.
But police cyber team that kept on tracking his phone signals showed they were within Bweyogerere. After the recovery of Bakkabulindi’s body, Police rushed to check the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras that showed the vehicle parking.
Onyango has also explained that all CCTV cameras around the area have been reviewed but they all show the deceased driving himself and parking to the spot where his body was discovered.
“CCTV have not shown anyone approached or leaving the car after it had been parked. All videos show Bakkabulindi driving himself and parking to his death spot. We however found some powder in the back seat where his body was and we have submitted it for toxicology analysis,” says Onyango.
What prompted Nakitto and another relative Benon Kabuye to suspect foul play in Bakkabulindi’s death was the fact that his body was found in the back seat and half naked. This made them suspect that all this was perhaps done by people who abducted him and later killed him.
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