Irene Kyakunda, 19, in October this year took a morning after pill but later realised that the pill has not worked.
Police findings indicate that, “Kyakunda took morning after pill that didn’t work. So she decided to go for a surgical abortion instead. She did not believe it was possible for her to still be pregnant after having an abortion.” The New Vision Reports.
The details emerged after police interviewed her close university friends. Until last week, Kyakunda studied a diploma in Public Administration at the Kampala International University.
Kyakunda disappeared from campus and her body was discovered at around 6:30am in the swamps adjacent in Nakimese zone, Nsangi, Wakiso district.
Police chief Gen. Kale Kayihura said Kyakunda visited a clinic that allegedly belonged to Joseph Wabwire in Namuwongo, a city suburb; however, the results were fruitless prompting the nurse (Wabwire) to refer her to his colleague in Nateete at Global medical clinic.
“It is at the colleague’s place, who police identified as Julius Ndiwajuni where she died,” Kayihura revealed this at the closure of a two-day workshop of 129 District Police Commanders (DPCs) in Kampala on Tuesday.
The duo is among four suspects still held at the Police’s Special Investigations Division(SID) in Kireka, Wakiso district.
The others include, Godfrey Nakunda and Conomar Talemwa. The latter was used by police to track the suspects.
Kayihura said, “After realizing that Kyakunda had died, the masterminds carried her body and dumped it in Nsangi as camouflage.”
Her body was tied with ropes, her dress torn to shreds and there was blood between her legs, suggesting that she had been gang raped and murdered.
A police post-mortem report found that she had just aborted a pregnancy at eight weeks.
Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango said police analysed a telephone print-out to get to the suspects.
Police operatives attached to the SID arrested the four suspects in a sting operation on Sunday.
On Tuesday, the police, working with forensic experts from Mulago hospital gathered evidence at the clinic (global), which shares the same building with retail a shop.
Kayihura directed Kabalagala and Nateete police officers to pursue the suspects and charge them with murder.
Onyango told the New Vision that the suspects had recorded statements with the police.
Quoting the Police post-mortem report, Onyango said: “She suffered massive internal bleeding into her abdominal cavity.”
Kyakunda was buried Thursday, last week in Kiruhura district. The deceased’s brother, Caleb Bangulya said the family is taking legal action against the suspects.
“The Police have been updating us about the steps they are taking in case,” Bangulya said in a telephone interview with the New Vision Wednesday.
According to a police report, a total of 2,578 cases of abortion were investigated in 2014.
