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It is a sorrow that cuts deeper than the loss itself—to spend half a decade chasing a ghost, only to join the silence without ever hearing the truth.
Mrs. Sarah Nantumbwe Ddamulira, wife of John Ddamulira, a known supporter of the National Unity Platform (NUP), passed away this morning. Her death closes a painful chapter of waiting, uncertainty, and unanswered questions that began in 2020 when her husband was abducted from his shop at Kisekka Market in Kampala.
John Ddamulira disappeared without a trace. Like so many Ugandans who have vanished in the shadows of state security operations, he was simply there one moment—selling goods, serving customers—and gone the next. Witnesses at the time said armed men in plain clothes picked him up. No charges were ever publicly filed. No body was found. No word came from any official quarters.
For five long years, Sarah refused to let his memory fade. She walked the corridors of police stations, military barracks, and government offices. She stood outside courts with photographs and placards. She attended support group meetings with other families of the disappeared—women, children, and elders all bound by the same cruel uncertainty: Is he alive? Is he dead? Will we ever know?
Each day without an answer was a slow erosion. Financially, emotionally, and physically, Sarah bore the weight alone. Friends say she rarely smiled after 2020. Her health began to fail in the last two years, but even through sickness, she would rise at dawn to make another trip, send another letter, beg another official for just a single piece of information.
She never got it.
This morning, surrounded by a few grieving relatives, Sarah passed on. She leaves behind children who lost not one parent under unclear circumstances, but who must now bury their mother while their father’s fate remains an open wound.
“It is most painful that she has passed on without finding any answers,” a close family member said, fighting tears. “She died searching.”
The family has asked for privacy as they prepare funeral arrangements. Meanwhile, human rights groups have renewed calls for a formal inquiry into enforced disappearances in Uganda, citing Mrs. Ddamulira’s case as a tragic example of what happens when justice is indefinitely delayed.
Kitalo nnyo. It is too painful.
In the end, Sarah Nantumbwe Ddamulira did not stop looking for her husband—she simply ran out of time. May her relentless love be remembered, and may her family finally find the peace that eluded her in life.
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