S.5 Student Commits Suicide Over Forced Subjects Combination

Students and teachers of Wampeewo senior secondary school in wakiso district were stunned to hear that one of the students identified as Hawa Nantongo committed suicide over her mother forced her to offer science subjects yet the student prefers ARTS subjects.

It's alleged that Nantongo's mother was summoned at the school several times to come to a consensus with her daughter Nantongo 17years of Senior Five was forced by her mother to offer Biology Chemistry and Mathematics (BCM) yet the student wanted to take Divinity, Economics and Luganda (DEL).

One of the student whose identities withheld told this publication that Nantongo was always in tears because of the combination she was.  Claiming was to hard for her and the teachers tried to explain to the mother but all in vain.

Another student who was close to Nantongo said that she was traumatized after her mother introduced to another man as her Biological father yet she was used to the father whom her mother said was not the real father.

She insisted that she is only ready pay for school dues only when Nantongo was offering BCM even if she repeated Senior Six she was ready to pay. 

It's alleged that on 7th June 2024 evening Nantongo who was in a boarding section dodged the School gatekeeper by disguising as a day scholar and escaped only to be found hugging on the rope at the nearby wetland area.

Police is yet to release the statement on the same but the body was conveyed to mulago mortuary for postmortem as investigations start to establish the actual cause of Nantongo's death.