ASP Elly Maate

The Police in Bwera are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of a 4 year old baby girl identified as Musoki Leticia, a resident of Kamuruli village in Kagando Parish Kisinga Sub-county in Kasese District. 

The Rwenzori East Regional Police Spokesperson Elly Maate confirmed the incident and explained that it ts alleged that last week, Mumbere Lodrick aged 10 years, the step brother to the deceased, while coming from his grandparents home in Kiyenge village in Kitabu Subcounty in Kasese district was given a bottle of Lucky Juice by the Aunt (sister to the mother) one Mbabazi Mary.

It is alleged that Mumbere was given strict instructions to take and give the juice specifically to the deceased and cautioned him not to test and too gave him one thousand shillings to buy his own lucky juice from Kiburara Trading Center. 

When Mumbere reached home, in the absence of his stepmother and father, gave the deceased the juice as directed and after the deceased took the juice, Mumbere threw up the empty bottle in the dustbin. 

It is reported that after the deceased took the alleged Lucky Juice, she went to sleep and when the mother came back she woke her up but she was not responding prompting her to rush her to Kagando Hospital from where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

The body of the deceased was accordingly taken to Muhokya Sub-county for burial, however, the manner of death didn’t please the Area chairperson who reported the incident to Kiburara Police Station yesterday and both Mbabazi and Mumbere were picked for questioning.

Maate disclosed that the scene of incident was examined and documented, statements obtained from relevant witnesses and the body of the deceased picked up from Muhokya Sub-county where it had been taken for burial and was conveyed to Bwera Hospital for postmortem examination.

Maate said that the relevant exhibits that included the empty bottle and some vomits were recovered for toxicological analysis aa investigations into the matter are still at hand.