Tag Archives: Ggaba

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Police are investigating what may have triggered the deadly attack on five children in Kalungu Bunga, Ggaba Parish, after new details emerged about the events leading to the deaths of two siblings and the serious injury of three others. Investigators are examining witness accounts of a …

Inside a landmark case that tested Uganda’s mobile courts, judicial independence, and the legal threshold for the ultimate sentence   COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | On the morning of April 2, 2026, what began as an ordinary school day at a modest childcare centre on the southeastern outskirts of Kampala …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Justice Alice Komuhangi Khaukha has sentenced Christopher Okello Onyum to death for the “meticulous” and “barbaric” murder of four toddlers at the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Centre. The sentencing, delivered near the scene of the April 2, 2026, murders, marks one of the most severe …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The High Court has ruled that Christopher Okello Onyum has a case to answer regarding the murder of four toddlers at the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Centre. Justice Alice Komuhangi Khaukha, presiding over a special mobile session at Ggaba Community Church, said that the prosecution …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Tuesday evening, Amina Namuwaya arrived at Immaculate Heart Primary School as she had done countless times before. She expected to walk straight to her children’s classrooms, collect them, and head home. Instead, school authorities restricted her at the gate. “Last week I wasn’t …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Mental health experts on Friday testified in the  High Court trial of Christopher Okello Onyum, the man suspected of murdering toddlers at the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Centre. They detailed the suspect’s confession and conflicting mental health history. Appearing before Justice Alice Komuhangi Khaukha, two …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Uganda Law Society (ULS) has issued a formal protest following a series of events at the Ggaba Mobile High Court, where its representatives were allegedly blocked from accessing a presiding judge and forcibly removed from court premises under police guard. In a protest note …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Christopher Okello Onyum, the man accused of the murder of four toddlers at Ggaba Early Childhood Development Centre, suffered an emotional collapse, forcing an abrupt halt to the proceedings on Wednesday. He collapsed during the testimony of Prosecution Witness- Eight, Rashid Juma, a director at …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Phibby Namutebi, a caretaker at the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Centre, says she struggled to save the children from the assailant who chased her with a knife. Her testimony closed the first day of the trial of Christopher Onyum Okello, the suspect in the brutal …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Christopher Onyum Okello, the 39-year-old accused of the gruesome murder of four toddlers at the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Centre, pleaded not guilty Monday morning as his trial commenced. Okello faces four counts of murder, contrary to Sections 171 and 172 of the Penal Code Act. …