WAKISO . The Judiciary fraternity is mourning the death of a senior state attorney who was found dead inside her house at Wampeewo near Kasangati, in Wakiso District .
Fatuma Nabiwemba Ssendagire, 47 an Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions (ADPP), was reportedly last seen alive on Monday, July 7, 2025 after she reportedly “went missing.” for days ago .
“The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions regrets to announce the untimely passing of Ms Fatuma Nabiwemba, Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, which occurred at her residence. Funeral arrangements will be communicated in due course,” a statement from the DPP’s office reads.
The cause of her death is still unknown as the family awaits the postmortem report. A source that is privy to the happening told this publication that Nabiwemba last reported for work last week. “Neighbours last saw her on Monday,July 7 and it was until yesterday (July 10) that they saw unusual flies around her house that got them suspicious. This prompted them to break into her house and find her body lying on the bed,” the source said.
They informed the police, who took her body to the city mortuary near Mulago National Referral Hospital for postmortem.
Police say her death was reported on July 10, 2025, at around 8:36 pm by Mr Hamuza Kabanda, a driver at the DPP headquarters.
“The Deceased was found unresponsive inside her residence in Wampeewo, Kasangati Town Council, where she lived alone. The body had no physical injuries,” Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson, Mr Luke Owoyesigyire, said in a Friday morning statement.
According to him, detectives from Kasangati visited the scene, conducted a search and recovered items of evidential value.
A detective who asked not to be named because they are not authorised to speak to the media said part of the documents recovered from her house was a letter from Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital.
She had reportedly left their home in Wampewo, Kasangati, an outskirt of Kampala, on December 12, 2017.
According to a January 2018 interview with her husband, Dr Ibrahim Ssendagire, Nabiwemba developed mental health issues when they lost their two-and-a-half-month-old baby.
“My wife was not able to come to terms with the death of our baby,” a seemingly distressed Dr Ssendagire told the media at the time.
“The post-natal depression could have been escalated when I did not ask my wife what caused the death of my child since it died when I was out of the country. I didn’t even see the baby itself,” he added.