Police in Uganda are adding pieces together to establish circumstances under which two finalist students were separately found dead.
Jane Nabikolo, an 18-year-old Senior Six student was found dead on April 1, inside a dormitory ceiling at Comprehensive College Kitetika Zone, Kasangati town council, Wakiso district.
Luke Owoyesigyire, the deputy Kampala police spokesperson, said Nabikolo was lying on her stomach and chest but it was difficult to immediately tell the cause of her death. School administration have since told police that Nabikolo asked for permission to go back home and buy medicine a week ago and it was granted.
The school administration did not get any information from Nabikolo’s home confirming whether she had arrived or not. They contacted the parents who indicated that she had not reached home.
Nabikolo’s mother, Sarah Nantongo, rushed to police and opened a case of a missing person. The deceased’s colleague say Nabikolo remained at school even after the school had given her permission to go back home. It is not yet clear how Nabikolo climbed into the ceiling, what could have killed her and reasons that could have contributed to her demise.
The Kampala incidents comes hours after Rukungiri police found a Senior Four student Brenda Ankunda lying dead in a stream. She was left with only hours to write her final Senior Four examination.
Ankunda was allowed by school administration of Rukungiri High School to go back home to prepare to write her final Literature in Kiswahili paper. But when the teachers did not see her appearing to sit for the last paper, they called the parents.
To their shock, the parents said she had travelled back to school. It was at that point teachers and parents alerted police. Parents and teachers realized that police had earlier picked a body from a stream. It is not yet clear on what circumstances led to Ankunda’s death.