FULL STORY: Bududa Married Man Chops Off a Teenager's Hand After a Failed rape Advance Towards Her.
Channel: Bugisu Nation Music (BNM)
Date: 2021-03-23

In July last year,16-year-old Evelyne Namasopo,who is a senior two student and a resident of Nabooti Village, Nakatsi Sub County in Bududa districtalmost lost her life, when a man identified as Derick Kuloba chopped off her hands for rejecting his sexual advances.

According to the victim, the suspect (Derrick Kuloba) who was armed with a machete, waylaid Namasopo on her way to her parents’ home at about 9pm and chopped off her right hand. Ref: Daily Monitor story published on 27th July 2020 titled “Man chops off girlfriend’s hand over rejecting marriage proposal”.

After chopping off her hand, Kuloba freed, leaving her in a pool of blood, if it wasn’t a friend who called her people and they rushed her to Buduuda Hospital, and later referred to Mbale Regional referral for better management, it would have been a different story today. 

Namasopo was discharged August in but with a permanent disability because her left hand was chopped off yet the other hand was severely injured which the doctors recommended that she would need a surgery. But to do this Mbale referral hospital asked for 5,000,000 Ug Shillings which her family cannot afford because of their economic status. 

When the case was reported to Buduuda CPS, to our dismay a defilement case reference CRB 361/2020 instead of attempted murder was opened and a suspect (Derick Kuloba) were arrested but later release released on a police bond. 
Upon learning on the above, Namasopo’s mother later went to Mbale Regional Police and filled a complaint, which led to the summoning of the file from Bududa CPS, and a new case of Attempted Murder was opened on Reference CRB 344/2020. Kuloba was re-arrested and produced inMbale High Court on 17th December, 2020where he was once again released on a court bail.