Tegu’s case a Vet student of Makerere University is far from getting concluded.

By; Rachael Najjuma

10^th July 2020

Eight residents of Makerere University, who had been arrested in connection to the death of a student Emmanuel Tegu, have been released.

Tegu, a third-year Veterinary Medicine student at the University was roughed up and died on July 4 as a result of injuries inflicted on him by a mob that mistook him for a thief. He was beaten on June 27 at the Students’ Centre within Makerere University.

Police first arrested Muluka I zone Chairman, Charles Oyugu, who on the fateful night called police claiming he had found a student beaten to death. After Oyugu’s arrest, police raided West Road were 12 other suspects were arrested.

On Wednesday police obtained a Closed Circuit Television – CCTV footage captured by St Augustine Makerere Chapel. Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, said the CCTV video showed the actual suspects related to Tegu’s death.

Only four out of the 13 suspects were charged yesterday at Law Development Centre-LDC Court in Old Kampala. The charged suspects include; Oyugu, Balam Nyeko, an SGA security guard, Johnson Kakuru 24, and Moses Sekitoleko 21, all residents of Makerere.

The eight were released on police bond but with stringent conditions among them not speak to the media according to the Chairman Muluka II zone, Bashir Kamugo.

The postmortem conducted at Kampala Capital City Authority –KCCA morgue revealed that the cause of death as blunt force trauma, due to open wounds along the back, multiple cane marks on the back of the right elbow and abrasions along the abdomen and the entire back of the victim.