Missing NRM Local Council I candidate killed

IGANGA- Shock on Tuesday gripped residents of Nakavule Ward in Iganga Municipality after discovering the body of the village Local Council chairperson dumped at a construction site, metres away from his home.

Abdallah Mawogole, a renowned businessman and National Resistance Movement chairman who has been aspiring to retain the seat, is suspected to have been kidnapped on Monday.
One of his wives, Ms Rose Babirye, said he rung her earlier in the day and told her that he had been kidnapped.

“He rung me at about 9:30 pm on his personal phone and told me that he had been kidnapped by unidentified people who had intoxicated him with chemicals that made him unconscious,” she said.

Ms Babirye said: “To the best of my knowledge, he didn’t have any misunderstandings with anyone in the family but you never know as a politician and businessman, he may have had a grudge with someone.”

Crime scene reports suggest that the deceased’s hands and legs were bound with ropes by his captors.

Mr Lulenzi Bamu, the Nakavule Parish Councillor, said they received information about the deceased’s disappearance on Monday night after he reportedly rung one of his wives and told her that he had been kidnapped.

Mr Bamu said the body was discovered by children who had gone to dig near the shrub surrounding the construction site.
The Busoga East Region Police publicist, Mr James Mubi, confirmed the incident.

He said they have started investigating the motive of the murder and the people behind it.

Mr Mubi said no arrests have been made in relation to the murder although their sniffer dog picked a scent that it traced to the home of an unnamed neighbour of the deceased.
The body of Mawogole who is survived by two wives and eleven children has been taken to Iganga Hospital Mortuary for a post-mortem.

This is the second murder to be registered in the area in a period of one month after a body of a 17-year-old girl was found dumped in a drainage channel.