KAMPALA – The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mike Chibita, has withdrawn rape charges against a Makerere University professor Christopher Bakuneta.
The state prosecutor, Caroline Namakoye, has informed Justice Jane Frances Abodo, that DPP has lost interest in prosecuting Bakuneta. This was during the hearing of case on Tuesday.
Namakoye has also presented a withdrawal letter dated November 30, 2018 and dully signed by the DPP, stating that the charges against Prof. Bakuneta be discontinued.
She told court that despite numerous summons, the student who alleges to have been raped was no longer interested in the case.
Abodo ordered that Bakunetta be set free immediately as there is no charge against him.
The prosecution had stated that Prof Bakuneta, a lecturer of Zoology at the College of Natural Science at Makerere University on March 24, 2016, at the same institution had sexual intercourse with Ms Vasha Ntegeka without her consent.
However, Prof Bakuneta admitted having had sex with the victim but said it was consensual adding that the act took place from his office at the Zoology department and not at the garage.
Court documents indicate that the victim came into contact with the lecturer through her sister, who used to stay at the same lecturer’s garage in 2014.
It had been further stated that the student said she had not locked the door of her dwelling when Prof Bakuneta entered the garage and raped her.
