MBARARA: RESIDENTS PAY WITCH DOCTOR TO RETRIEVE BODY OF DROWNED FELLOW AFTER POLICE FAIL

By Aggrey Twesigye

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In Mbarara—

Residents of Kiyanja cell, Kamukuzi, Mbarara city have finally retrieved the body of one of their own who drowned yesterday.

The deceased Edgar Nimusiima is a 20 year old business man who has been dealing in ginger around Mbarara but hails from Rubare Ntungamo district.

According to residents, they notified the police who swung into action but failed to retrieve the body thus they mobilized and paid 300.000 Uganda shillings to a witch doctor who later helped them to retrieve the deceased’s body.

Residents challenged the government to train the police marine force on how to handle such cases.

The body of the deceased was later handed to Police before taking it for postmortem at Mbarara Regional referral hospital.

By the time we filed this story, police were yet to comment on the matter.

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