A 44-year-old man who hit and killed his four-year-old niece on Tuesday has willingly handed himself over to Police authorities in Kitgum district.
The incident happened at the family home in Oyuru Aromo village in Akworo Parish, Labongo Amida Sub County on Tuesday evening at about 6 pm.
Clay Kibwota who was at home alone with Mitchel Ayerwoth his niece was sleeping in one of the houses before he woke up and moved to where the child was, for no reason he started hitting her head on the wall and cracking it. She died instantly.
The father to the deceased had traveled on a journey while her grandmother was fetching water at a nearby well.
Wilfred Nyeko the Labongo Amida Sub County LC3 chairperson says the suspect who is a resident of Pader district was visiting for a week now before the murder incident.
Nyeko, however, believes the suspect was heavy on narcotic drugs when he committed the criminal offense.
He notes that a panicking Kibwota quickly fled the scene after realizing the magnitude of his action and left the dead girl cold and alone on the floor, he, however, showed up later at police with a confession to the murder.
Robert Oken, the officer in charge of criminal investigation at Kitgum central police station says the suspect confessed to his crime alleging that he was commanded in his dream by spirits to kill her niece.
Oken, however, says they have commenced investigation to ascertain the exact motive behind the girl’s murder.
