By Johnson Kanyesige
Residents of Kihoka village Ruhunga parish, Buhimba Sub County, Kikuube district were left in shock and grief over the weekend after a body of one of the residents in the area was discovered floating in a deserted quarry pond.
The deceased is Matyansi Bucyanayandi a male adult aged 54years and a resident of the same area.
Preliminary information from Police indicates the deceased was hired by the late Arafairi Kagoro to work as a porter 10 years ago. However, in 2022, when Kagoro passed on, Matyansi now deceased remained taking care of the late’s estates where he later fell in love with one of Kagoro’s step daughter’s identified as Agnes Mushabe.
It is alleged Matyansi started hiring out the land belonging to the late Kagoro something that irked his relatives.
However, Julius Allan Hakiiza the Albertine regional spokesperson says on Saturday, Matyansi’s body was found floating on water in a deserted quarry pond left by a Chinese construction company at around 7:45pm.
Hakiiza says police has arrested and detained Mushabe who is alleged to have collaborated with others still at large to murder the deceased.
When police retrieved the body, there were no signs of drowning with marks of strangling all his body.
Hakiiza now requests residents to cooperate with police and avail it with more information as investigations continue over this incident.
