By KT Reporter
The High Court in Kabale has scheduled June 11, 2025, as the date for delivering judgment in a civil case where Tadeo Ruzindantaro sued Bishop Asili Nursery Day and Boarding Primary School in Kabale Municipality over the alleged disappearance of his daughter.
The case stems from events that began on April 23, 2018, when Ruzindantaro accused the school of releasing his daughter, Benathy Nimurungi, to his estranged wife, Mercy Kirande, without his consent. In Civil Suit No. 36 of 2022, Ruzindantaro alleges that the school’s head teacher, Sister Margaret Tusiime, collaborated with Kirande to unlawfully remove the child (then four years old) from Uganda and smuggle her to South Africa.
According to Ruzindantaro, he and Kirande were married in 2003 but separated in 2010, after which Kirande left the country and abandoned the child. Years later, when Ruzindantaro’s current wife, Innocent Tukamushaba, went to the school to collect Nimurungi’s report card as a guardian, a teacher informed her that the pupil had sat only two papers before being taken to South Africa by Kirande, with the help of the head teacher.
Ruzindantaro reported the matter at Kabale Police Station under SD Ref. 57/26/04/2018 and was advised to pursue a civil case. He later filed the case in the High Court, seeking general damages for psychological and emotional torture, as well as the inconvenience caused by the unauthorized removal of his daughter.
In a notice dated June 4, 2025, and signed by Kenneth Tumwebaze, the Kabale High Court Assistant Registrar, both parties and their legal representatives were informed that the judgment will be delivered on June 11, 2025, at exactly 9:00 AM. Our reporter has also learned that Justice Karoli Lwanga Ssemogerere, the presiding judge, had previously advised the parties to explore mediation, but efforts to settle the case out of court failed-URN. Give us feedback on this story through our email: kamwokyatimes@gmail.com
