University Bursar, Hubby Arrested In Connection To Torturing Student To Death.

Police in Mbarara are investigating circumstances under which a first-year student identified as Kelleti Mbabazi pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Education at Bishop Stuart University in Mbarara was allegedly tortured to death at the home of the bursar of Metropolitan University in Biharwe, Mbarara district.

Now police have so far arrested Gloria Mwesigy the bursar and her husband after this student visited their home and was later found dead.

On February 29, 2024, when Mbabazi, in the company of a friend and coursemate, known as Jaberi Amwine, left Bishop Stuart University campus in Kakoba to visit Mwesigye in Biharwe.

“At around 8:00 pm, Mwesigye persuaded the duo to sleep in Biharwe to which Mbabazi declined and decided to return to Bishop Stuart University,” Jabeli claimed in his statement to police.

From around that time, Mbabazi’s friends and relatives could not reach him on the phone, until his body was found. However, a police investigation has found holes in Jabeli’s testimony.

Investigators discovered that Jabeli and Mbabazi met Mwesigye and her hubby, who is also a lecturer at Metropolitan University, at the couple’s bar in Biharwe. The bar is located a few meters away from the couple’s home.

After a few drinks, the two university students and Mwesigye together with her husband later walked to the latter’s house. Jaberi later left the house to return to the University, leaving his friend Mbabazi at Mwesigye’s home.

Police in Biharwe say they discovered a body without any identification on the morning of Saturday, March 01, which had been dumped around Biharwe, with bruises and deep cuts.

After days of searching, Mbabazi’s landlord was told to check on a body that had been lying in the morgue for days, which would later be positively identified by Mbabazi’s university course-mates.

Police this past Sunday arrested Mbabazi and her yet-to-be-identified husband along with three other suspects who are believed to have murdered Mbabazi.

Preliminary information suggests that Mbabazi was apparently killed in the house of the Bursar after a yet-to-be-known disagreement, who together with other accomplices helped dispose of the body, a few meters away from the university.