Police In Kampala Launch Investigation Into Death Of Primary School Girl

A Police investigation has been launched to determine circumstances surrounding the death of a p7 girl at Edinance Daycare, Nursery and Primary School. 12-year-old Valeria Leisha Namata appeared to have passed away in her sleep on Thursday night.

This came after the discovery of her corpse on her decker in the school’s dormitory on Friday at around 5:00 am.

The matron (who discovered the body) had gone to wake students up to prepare for morning preps. This is when she discovered the body. John Musisi, father to the deceased and resident of Nsooba, Kawempe revealed his shock after the headteacher called and informed him.

“I reside a stone’s throw away from the school where my daughter has been studying. I am figuring out what could have killed my girl, who had no known health complication at all,” Mr. Musisi said.

He added that his daughter had been taken to Mulago by the time the school management called him.

However, according to him, the school deliberately did this to make them think that she had died at the hospital and not at the school.

“Imagine medics at Mulago told us, at the time the girl arrived, she was already lifeless. This means there is a possibility that they could have carried her corpse off the decker, to hoodwink us that the girl died from the hospital, yet they knew she died from the dormitory,” he said.

The mother of the deceased, Lilian Nantongo further insisted that her daughter has had no health complications since birth. The school administrators declined to comment on the matter when contacted by reporters.

The police have focused on establishing if there was any case of negligence or purely a natural death. However, preliminary findings at the hospital indicated blood outside her heart and the brain.

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