The Ministry of Internal Affairs says investigations have started to ascertain circumstances under which a Ugandan female working abroad committed suicide.
The deceased identified as Monica Karungi, from Isingiro district in Uganda was captured on video throwing herself off the ninth floor of a 12 storied building and landing on a concrete floor in Dubai.
According to Agnes Igoye, the Deputy National Coordinator, trafficking in persons department says they are working with the ministry of foreign affairs to establish circumstances that could have forced Karungi to terminate her life.
“You all saw that graphic image where she was falling off from the building in Dubai and she died on spot but it is foreign affairs which will give details, we are yet to know the reason for her suicide,” Igoye said.
Igoye says it is not yet clear how Karungi went to Dubai since the internal and foreign affairs ministry are yet to establish her travel details.
She says the immigration and trafficking in persons departments are following as to be the cause of Karungi’s suicide.
Igoye says that the repatriation of her body, will depend on how fast the investigations are conducted.
However, it has been alleged by anonymous sources that Karungi killed herself after learning that her boyfriend in Uganda had misused the money she had been sending him.
Lastweek, the Internal Affairs Permanent Secretary, Lt Gen Joseph Musanyufu, released the 2021 human trafficking report showing 20 internal and external victims were recovered or repatriated dead.
The report shows that 1,295 people were victims of local and cross border trafficking.The report also says that by end of the year 2021, 175 had mysteriously disappeared.
