109-Year-Old Woman In Fear After Surviving Being Set On Fire
Florence Nantumbwe (in yellow) Seated in front of her house
Police in Kimenyede, Nakifuma Subcounty Mukono District have commenced investigations into the unknown people who attempted to set fire on a 109-year-old woman at night.
It is said that the elderly Florence Natumbwe woke up in the morning with an opened door, a house filled with the smell of gasoline, a five-liter jerry can full of gasoline, matchsticks and a long cotton rope soaked in gasoline outside her house. The locals believe the culprits may have been driven away by the heavy rains that poured all through the night.
The elderly woman who currently stays alone is living in fear and suspects the attempted arson to be from some family members who had for long wanted to take over her six acres of land that she inherited from her late husband Kukula-Kwetta Yonasaani.
According to Nantumbwe, she suspects the Lawrence Buule’s family who she says had previously threatened to grab the land with claims that they acquired it from the widow’s son who left the village more than ten years ago. She claims the suspect who was once a village chairman may have forged documents through his office to claim the land.
The residents revealed how the unproblematic Nantumbwe has for a long time been attacked by unknown people who recently slashed her garden, destroying her crops.
“She has no problem with anyone but there is someone working so hard to see that they take her land because she looks helpless,” Ssalongo Opendi Thomas, the neighbor to the elderly woman spoke out, also asking the local authorities to see that they protect Nantumbwe.
The officer in charge of Kimenyede Police post, Nantale Jalia during the village meeting on the matter confirmed the attempted arson attack and revealed that the suspects would be summoned at the station for questioning.
Conrad Mutyaba, the lawyers handling Nantumbwe’s land case in court also called upon the police to speed up the investigations and find the culprits behind the attack.
Paul Nsubuga speaking on behalf of Buule’s family denied the allegations, revealing that the claims were aimed at tarnishing the family name and promised to take the matter to court.
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