Police have positively identified the woman who was earlier on Sunday murdered along the Northern bypass while jogging.

“The deceased is Agnes Nantongo, Manager at African Oil Petrol Station,”  Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango told ChimpReports on Sunday night.

Onyango said the incident, which has sent shockwaves down the spine of routine joggers, occurred in Kamuli A’ Zone, Kireka, along Northern Bypass. 

Police said Nantongo was last seen leaving her workplace on Saturday at approximately 7:00 PM wearing the same clothing found on her body this morning.  

“At around 8:00 AM today, passersby alerted authorities to a lifeless woman lying in the shrub by the roadside,” said Onyango, adding, “Police responded promptly and initiated inquiries.” 

He said the investigation is ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding Agnes Nantongo’s death.

Such incidents have occurred in the past.

In July 2022, James Kakooza, 54, a local Councillor in Kamwokya, Kampala, was  killed by unknown assailants while jogging near Centenary Park.

Kampala Metropolitan deputy Police spokesman Luke Owoyesigire said then that Kakooza was on his routine morning jog and as he approached Yusuf Lule road along Centenary Park when “two unidentified men moving on a motorcycle hit him with a blunt object on the head and later fled the scene.”

Earlier this year, Bishop Zac Niringiye, who previously served as Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of  Kampala, was attacked by unknown thugs in Ntinda, Kampala.

Niringiye was having a morning jog when a man on a motorcycle hit him on the back of his head.

The blow sent Niringiye, 70, hurtling to the ground. He survived the attack.

The Uganda Police Force urged anyone with information regarding Nantongo’s murder case to contact the Kireka police station or any nearest police station.

By ChimpReports