Kabale residents were on Wednesday forced to launch a campaign to raise rent for the children of Hilary Namanya and Barbara Nakutunda Namanya (Uganda Technology and Management University – UTAMU students ) who perished in a car accident on their way to attend a scientific wedding in Kisoro District.
Apparently, the couple’s landlord locked up their house over unpaid rent arrears. The landlord in question is Prof. Emmanuel Kaijuka, a former commissioner of the Ministry of Health.
More details indicate that Kaijuka was demanding the couple three months of unpaid rent for a house they were paying UGX 250,000 monthly. According to Medard Kiconco, the couple’s close friend, Kaijuka locked the house shortly after the burial that went down on Sunday.
“We tried to talk to him and explain that the couple had left behind two little children who don’t have money to pay but he insisted that he would only open the house for them to remove their property after the rent is cleared,” Kiconco said.
Kabale residents managed to fundraise UGX 870,000 towards helping the two little children. Kaijuka confirmed that he received the money via Mobile Money, adding that the family can now take the deceased’s property.
“The money was sent on Mobile Money, I got it they can now take the property ,” Kaijuka said.
