News shocking every Ugandan this afternoon is of the body of the missing CIDI staff, Maria Nagirinya, who was abducted on Wednesday night and has been found in Nakituruli in Mukono District by Police dead.
Maria’s body was discovered alongside another body of a boda boda rider, Ronald Kitayimbwa, who also went missing the same fateful day.
They were found covered with dry grass in a water channel. The body of the woman had cuts on the head.
She went missing on Wednesday night when unknown gunmen forcibly took her as she approached the gate of her home in Busega. She was the project manager at Community Integrated Development Initiative (CIDI), a Kampala-based NGO and no one had claimed responsibility or made demands of ransom to her family.
Her car, a Toyota Spacio, registration number UBA 570V had earlier been found abandoned at Kitooro zone in Nateete, Rubaga division earlier on Friday morning. Police had gazetted the area as a crime scene.
Closed circuit television camera footage reviewed by detectives, according to one source familiar with the inquiries, showed that the abductors drove from Busega to the city’s eastern Bweyogerere outskirts before going down toward Kinawataka.