The Directorate of criminal investigation department CID on Monday released a report on the murder of Masindi District Health Officer. Dr. Jino Abiriga.
According to the police, three people have so far confessed to participating in the murder of the Masindi District Health officer Dr Jino Abiriga.
The three Suspects who include the deceased’s wife Betty Cherotich, Namureng Joshua a 36 year old builder of Tarobya Village in Bukwo district and Kipsang Martin alias Chesab a 31 year old carpenter of Roruk village also in Bukwo district were arrested by the investigating teams.
Evidence so far gathered indicate that the plot to murder of Dr Jino Abiriga began after his wife Cherotich Betty learnt that her husband had got a second wife identified as Atuhura Suzan in Masindi.
According to preliminary findings, Cherotich first hatched a plot to kill Atuhura by setting ablaze her house but all the attempts failed.
She had hired Kipsang Martin to do the job at a cost of Uganda shillings 2.5 million.
Fred Enanga the police spokesperson noted that when Cherotich failed to murder Atuhura she changed goal posts and plotted the murder of her husband.
She had previously blamed the doctor for the death of their first born, the miscarriage of their twins. She also accused her husband of constantly insulting her as a bad performer sexually.Enanga says that Betty Cherotich tasked Kipsang Martin to find a second person to help her murder husband,
On 12th December 2023, Kipsang Martin together with Namureng Joshua started their plans of killing Dr Jino Abiriga which they eventually executed on 6th January 2024 after receiving 500,000 thousand shillings cash from Cherotich.
” We have recovered exhibits from Valentine guest house where they dumped the blood stained clothes in the pit latrine and left Masindi municipality at 5:30am” says Enanga.
Other exhibits recovered include two hoe handles, a pair of shoes for the deceased, a black sport bag, clothes of the suspect, a bag retrieved from the latrine with a pillow cover, mopping rug, work ID for the deceased and other blood stained clothes.
All samples were submitted to the forensic directorate for further analysis.
