Ayebazibwe Rachael, a Kyambogo University finalist who has been awaiting her graduation in December this year did not live to envisage this day as she passed on Saturday evening. It is alleged that the deceased was nursing a wound which she acquired when she was accidentally shot dead by the police in Kampala city as they tried to disperse protesters linked to the Free Bobi Wine campaign.
In a statement released by Hon. Aribarema Rodgers, the Guild information minister of Kyambogo University, Ayebazibwe who was pursuing a Bachelor of Microfinance was reportedly wounded on the head by a stray bullet on Wednesday as she was heading from town to Banda to deliver her report to her supervisor. When the bullet hit her, she lost consciousnesses which prompted good Samaritans to rush her to Victoria hospital where she was put under Intensive Care Unit. She lost the battle for her life on Saturday evening when the situation got out of hand.
After her death, condolences from the Kyambogo community, friends, family and students’ Guild body poured in across social media platforms. “You have been a good friend and I had promised to buy you a big cake on your graduation day. But now, you have left all these behind. My cake, your degree, your dreams. This is sad,” Agudda Moses, a close friend of the deceased expressed.
Meanwhile, news coming in indicates that the relatives have been denied the body of the deceased due to accumulated costs of treatment that they have failed to pay amounting to over shs21m.
May the soul of the deceased rest in eternal peace
