Shock and grief befell on people of Kampala on Friday morning when a woman jumped from the 14th floor of Workers House building and died.

The woman was identified as Justine Nalugya, a resident of Kampala district. The relatives to the deceased said that Nalugya was so stressed because she had a degree from Makerere University but she had not been employed for the last three years. Rose Nambi, a relative to the deceased told the people who had gathered at the scene of suicide that Nalugya walked to Workers House this morning expecting to get a job.

“She told us that a certain friend of hers called Peter had promised to connect her to a job today Friday. She had even mobilized funds from us to bribe the employer for the job. It seems when she reached there she discovered that Peter had conned her and she decided to end her life,” she hopes.

The deceased was dressed in a black skirt and a yellow blouse. She first folded her skirt and threw her bag down before jumping to her death. The police are hunting for a man identified as Peter to help it with its investigations. The problem is that there are 18 men at Workers House with a name Peter. So the police have found it hard to establish which Peter the deceased had gone to see. The police have taken Nalugya’s body to Mulago hospital.

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Shock and grief befell on people ofKampalaon Friday morning when a woman jumped from the 14th floor of Workers House building and died.

The woman was identified as Justine Nalugya, a resident ofKampaladistrict. The relatives to the deceased said that Nalugya was so stressed because she had a degree fromMakerereUniversitybut she had not been employed for the last three years. Rose Nambi, a relative to the deceased told the people who had gathered at the scene of suicide that Nalugya walked to Workers House this morning expecting to get a job.

“She told us that a certain friend of hers called Peter had promised to connect her to a job today Friday. She had even mobilized funds from us to bribe the employer for the job. It seems when she reached there she discovered that Peter had conned her and she decided to end her life,” she hopes.

The deceased was dressed in a black skirt and a yellow blouse. She first folded her skirt and threw her bag down before jumping to her death. The police are hunting for a man identified as Peter to help it with its investigations. The problem is that there are 18 men at Workers House with a name Peter. So the police have found it hard to establish which Peter the deceased had gone to see. The police have taken Nalugya’s body to Mulago hospital.

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Charles IngabireRIP, the editor of the Kinyarwanda Online media Inyenyeri magazine was gunned down by unidentified assailants on the 30^th of November 2010 in the gardens of Makies 2 Bar along Sir Apollo Kaggwa, a Kampala suburb.

However, fear has mounted onto both Rwandan community and journalists in Uganda over the increased operatives spying on their work. Ingabire is suspected to have been killed because of his journalistic work.

The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 additional Protocols are the cornerstones of modern refugee protection wherein government guarantees the basic Human Rights and physical security of the refugees.

Therefore, the government of Uganda bears the prime responsibility  for protecting refugees within its territory and this includes promoting and providing legal and physical protection, and minimizing the threat of violence including deaths which many Rwandan refugees are prone to.

The committee set up by the community of Rwandan Refugees and Asylum seekers in Uganda had sought protection while holding a peaceful demonstration on 8^th of December between 10:00 am to 12:00pm en-route from Kisementi roundabout, through Kanjokya Street to Prince Charles drive where they would petition the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees to look into their grievances.

A letter dated 6^th/Dec/2011  was written to the Inspector General of Police, Major General Kale Kaihura seeking for protection while peacefully demonstrating against the alarmingly rampant activities of intelligences that spy on their work in Uganda and the killings of Rwandan Refugees and Asylum Seekers.

The assassination of CHARLES INGABIRA epitomizes several other killings and security threats to the Rwandese community. The demonstration further sought to call on the International Community, especially UNHCR, the United Nations body in charge of protection of refugees and human rights defenders and the Government of the Republic of Uganda, the host country to take effective measures in ensuring the safety and protection of Rwandese refugees, journalists and other human rights defenders.  The demonstrators also wanted UNHCR to desist from riding roughshod to serious concerns of security threats and death of Rwandan refugees.

Also, the demo ultimately calls for vigilance, independence and thorough investigations by police and all other relevant security agencies into mishaps against Rwandese. These investigations should ensure that the cases are handled to their logical conclusions with the perpetrators being brought to book.

HRNJ–Uganda was reliably informed that Ugandan police force dilly-dallied with the leaders who had gone to police headquarters on 7^th/Dec/2011 to secure protection.

One of the leaders told HRNJ–Uganda that they reportedly went to police four times and appeared before different offices as they were being asked to go back after every three hours.

“Whenever we would go to police headquarters, officers there were telling us that nothing has matured and that’s how the day went without getting protection” said one leader whose name is withheld for security purposes.

Sources told HRNJ–Uganda that by 18:00 local time on 7^th/Dec/2011, there was still no response until the Inspector General of Police intervened, made a private call to the Rwandese leaders and managed to coerce them to postpone their intentions for a few days as they partake investigations into the matter in a meeting that lasted up to 21:00 o’clock. The IGP asked them to be patient and promised to grant permission at a future date.

“We were not surprised to hear that police blocked the demo. From our experiences with the Uganda Police Force, this is a normal routine! It was a hectic wild goose chase that yielded no result. The police’s response exhibits the high handedness, partisan, and repressive role the police is playing in abrogating the Constitution most especially Article 29 which provides for freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration” said HRNJ–Uganda Programs Coordinator Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala

HRNJ–Uganda reiterates its former position that called for intervention from independent bodies like Interpol to investigate the gruesome murder of Charles Ingabire fearing for country relations that would jeopadise investigations.

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