MUKONO-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: A Mulago referral hospital medical doctor at the centre of suspicion for killing his girlfriend has escaped from the country on the day he was due to face trial at Mukono High Court.
Dr. Matthew Kirabo is accused of murdering his former girlfriend Desire Mirembe on July 6, 2015 after the couple reportedly conflicted in their love affair. Both were second year Makerere University School of medicine students.
Mr. Gashumba listens to court proceedings November 3, 2021.
High court sitting in Mukono on Wednesday was stunned to learn Dr. Kirabo was missing. When presiding Justice Kaweesa Kasirye Henry sought from Kirabo’s lawyers the whereabouts of Dr Kirabo, the advocate responded that his client was hospitalized in Jinja Hospital with Covid19. But records indicated he was not in the said hospital.
Sources said he had flown out of Uganda. Justice Kaweesa that issued criminal summons and Kirabo is required to be arrested from wherever he is.
The executive director of SSisimuka Uganda Mr. Frank Gashumba who is working together with the State House Anti-corruption Unit headed by Col Edith Nakalema and the family vowed to pursue the case to its logical conclusion.
“We will ensure he is arrested,” Gashumba told Newsday.
In 2015 Kirabo was arrested and on November 30, 2015, was committed to the High Court for trial. He was however granted bail and hearing of his case at Mukono High court had stalled and had never been fixed.
.Mirembe was a resident of Akamwesi Hostel in Wandegeya from where she went missing. Mirembe’s mother who lives in the US received a message from her daughter’s phone that she had left for Jinja with a stranger but said she was scared.
When her mom attempted to call her line, nobody was picking.
“One of her friends called Kirabo immediately and put him on pressure to explain Mirembe’s whereabouts. Kirabo, however, confessed the murder to his uncle, a lecturer at Makerere University who offered to drive him to the Central Police Station in Kampala where he handed himself over to the Police,” Mirembe’s father says.
Delayed justice had puzzled the relatives of Kirabo with the leading complainant, Emmanuel Musoke, Mirembe’s father infuriated that the suspect continued with his studies, graduated and was employed as a medical officer at Mulago Hospital.
By the time the suspect doctor is being arraigned in court, he had applied for his passport from the High court to enable him pursue further studies in the US.
But Principal Judge Flavian Zeija two weeks ago following the intervention of Col Edith Nakalema, the head of the State House Anti-Corruption Unit fixed the hearing of the case.
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