The family of the slain Top Radio reporter Paul Kiggundu is currently starving and seeking for help to look after orphans.
Kiggundu, then based in Masaka, was attacked and lynched by a mob while covering a riot at Nkenge village in Nabigasa Sub County in September 2010. Seven people were arrested in connection to the murder but were reportedly released under unclear circumstances. The suspects were Gerald Buberwa, Godfrey Katumba, Joseph Lubega, Peter Kalaveri, Sunday Ibrahim, Siraje Kawoya and Siraje Mulelwa, all residents of Nkenge in Nabigasa Sub County, Masaka district.
The deceased left two children now aged two and three respectively. The children are under the care of their mother, Agatha Nalukwaata, a resident of Nabigasa A.
Nalukwaata says she’s facing a challenge of feeding the two children as well as meeting their medical bills. She further claims Kiggundu’s employers have also neglected the family yet he died doing their work.
She appealed to the deceased’s former employers and journalists’ associations to intervene so as to help her raise the orphans.
Francis Kitto, the Nabigasa LC1 secretary urged journalists to raise funds so as to help Nalukwaata raise her children.
Isa Aliga, the South Buganda Journalist Association (SOBUJA) president pledged to seek help from different journalists’ organisations to help the family.
