South Sudanese Student Kills in Uganda
By Cecilia Okoth
Suzan Adit Maker, 20, a Senior Three student at Emma High School, Kisaasi met her death as she pursued a petty thief who had snatched her gold necklace in a busy city mall.
She was reportedly strangled to death at the basement of Gazaland shopping mall in an ensuing brawl after catching up with the thug, relatives said.
The case was reported at the Central Police Station (CPS) vide CRB 41/6/9/2014.
“We are aware of the case and have so far arrested one person who is in our custody. Two other suspects are on the run,” said Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson.
Michael Adut and Nelson Makoyi, both relatives of the deceased, said Maker could have been hit and later strangled.
Makoyi, an uncle to the dead student, said that on the ill-fated day Adit left their home in Muyenga, a city suburb, in the company of her three sisters and a brother for the city to buy herself a mobile phone.
It was while there in the city that the assailant snatched her gold necklace, an incident that would later end tragic.
It emerged that the student’s siblings who had traveled along with her to town told her not to pursue the goon, but in vain. Adit was determined to get back what belonged to her.
Makoyi narrated: “[Adit] Maker, in an attempt to rescue her precious jewel, followed the thief into the basement and tried to grab back her necklace but she was instead overpowered by the thief and strangled to death.”
He said attempts moments later by the student’s siblings to trace her were futile as they lost track of her, only to find her lying dead on the floor at the basement.
‘Disciplined student’
The incident happened at around 2.00pm local time.
The corpse was later transferred to Case Clinic, about a mile out of the city centre and the matter reported at the Kampala Central Police Station (CPS).
She was laid to rest on Monday in Yirol in South Sudan.
Mark Malinga, the headteacher of Emma High School, told New Vision on phone that Adit was a very good girl.in a phone interview with the New Vision described the deceased as a very good girl.
“She was disciplined and very hard working and we expected her to get very good grades come next year in Senior Four,” he said, adding that she was due to report back to school for the third term.
Born to Maker Mading and Lou Ngor who are both pastoralists, Adit came to Uganda in 2012 to attain secondary school education.
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