By Sadique Bamwita
ENTEBBE
A -12 year- old primary six pupil at St. Savio Junior School, Kisubi in Entebbe Sub district, who went missing from school for the past 10 days has finally been found.
Victor Katungi was finally found on April 30, 2026 while still safe and alive, reducing pressure and tension on the school administration.
The recovered primary six pupil went missing on the night of April 23, 2026, following a disagreement with his science teacher, Bernard Mangeni. The footage reviewed by police investigators from Kisubi police station, indicates that Katungi fled the school by jumping over the school fence and headed to an unknown destination.
The news of his recovery was shared by Lawyer and human rights activist, Agather Atuhaire on her X account on Friday 1st May 2026.
“Victor has been found what a relief! Thank you all for your prayers and support to his family. He looks injured but I haven’t got all the details. I just thought I should share this amazing news in the meantime,” she posted.
Katungi has since been reunited with his family, however details of how he was located are still scanty.
Early this week, the Entebbe Division Police Commander, Moses Musinguzi Karakire, led a team of detectives to inspect the surveillance systems at the school, as part of the investigations into how the pupil disappeared from the school.
Background To His Disappearance From School
Credible sources revealed that Katungi escaped from the school following a scuffle with his science teacher, one Bernard Mangeni, who also doubles as the P.6 class teacher.
Upon receiving the info regarding his disappearance from school on April 23,2026, his father Patrick Karungi went to the school on that very night and a search was conducted around the school premises, which never yielded any fruits.
The following day, he returned to the school with a relative and together went to Kisubi Police station to file a missing child report after the school head teacher failed to appear to explain to them, how the boy went missing.
They filed case of missing child at Kisubi police station under reference number SD Ref: 12/24/04/2026. Thereafter, they were assigned a CID officer, who escorted them to the school to view footage from the school security cameras.
According to the source, the footage retrieved at the school, showed a scuffle between Katungi and his class teacher Mangeni at 8:15pm, which could have scared him from returning to the classroom, when he was asked to pick his past paper for science examination.
The recovered boy was last seen on CCTV cameras while wearing a red uniform and disappearing behind the classroom at approximately 9:00pm.
The footage also captured Katungi, jumping over the school fence into a neighbouring banana plantation at approximately 9:14pm, Thursday night on April 23,2026.
Meanwhile, at this juncture police is yet to issue a statement on how the boy was found.
