A DNA test has confirmed that Chris Rugari, the Hon. Consul of Zimbabwe in Uganda, was the biological father of two-year-old Nganwa Rugari, whose death has sparked a police investigation and wide public debate.
The results from MBN Clinical Laboratories dated 4th April and jointly signed by Dr. Freddie Bwanga and Dr. Alfred Okeng stated conclusively that Mr. Rugaari was the biological father of the deceased.
The boy died under mysterious circumstances shortly before DNA was to be conducted in an ongoing divorce case between Mr. Rugaari and his estranged wife, Koline Mutesi. He was buried at Rugari’s ancestral home in Kabale, while the mother is still languishing at Jinja Road Police cells.
Ms. Jolin Dusabe Mutesi, a mother of five, was taken into custody by police at Jinja Road Police Station as they probe the suspicious death of her 2-year-old son, Nganwa Rugari, who died on April 2, 2025, under unclear circumstances.
The child, a resident of Mutungo Zone 8 in Nakawa Division, Kampala, was reportedly rushed to Kitintale Hospital on the evening of April 1 after he allegedly fell from the first floor of a building.
However, police investigation has raised doubts about the circumstances surrounding his death, prompting an ongoing inquiry.
Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango said the mother was arrested after several key findings, among them “the window from which the child allegedly fell from was found permanently closed. He revealed that investigations into the case were ongoing
