BATHROOM DEATH! Moneylender Stress Claims Top K’la Businesswoman
KAMPALA — The sudden death of prominent businesswoman Gloria Turyamureeba has left family, friends and associates grappling with questions over the financial pressure she was reportedly facing in the days before her death.
Turyamureeba, a mother of two, was found dead in a bathroom in what has been described by people close to the family as a tragedy that followed mounting financial stress.
Sources say she had been under intense pressure after a top city moneylender allegedly seized some of her belongings over an outstanding debt.
The developments reportedly deeply affected the businesswoman, who had built a career spanning travel, tourism, upholstery and high-end carpets.
Turyamureeba was the Chief Executive Officer of Footprints Safaris Ltd.
She was also the Managing Director of C & S Upholstery Ltd, a position she had held since 1998.
Her business interests included travel consultancy and the sale of what associates described as top-notch carpets and upholstery products.
Those who knew her professionally remember a woman who had spent decades building businesses and establishing herself in Kampala’s corporate and entrepreneurial circles.
Turyamureeba was also academically accomplished, holding a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting and Economics from Texas State University, which she completed between 1992 and 1996.
She later pursued a Master of Arts in Leadership and Management at Robert Kennedy College, Zurich.
But behind the successful businesswoman was reportedly a mounting financial burden that family and friends are now struggling to understand.
People close to the matter say the alleged seizure of her property by the moneylender added to her distress, although the full circumstances surrounding the debt and the events leading to her death remain unclear.
Her death has left behind two children, deepening the pain for the family.
But her tragic death comes against the backdrop of another disturbing moneylender-related incident in Nansana, raising fresh concerns about the pressure borrowers can face when debts spiral out of control.
In Nansana West Ward, a suspected debt crisis recently ended in a horrific fire that claimed the lives of landlady Violet Nanyombi and tenants Annet Namulondo and her husband, Isabirye Bumali.
Police said the fire broke out in a building divided into six rental units.
Before the blaze, Nanyombi reportedly took her nine-year-old daughter out of the house, gave her money to clear outstanding school fees and left behind a handwritten note that local leaders described as a will.
The note reportedly indicated who should care for her daughter and manage her property until the girl turned 18.
But it also allegedly revealed that Nanyombi had a loan on which she was paying Shs60,000 every day.
Nansana West Village Chairperson George Mukiibi said the note did not clearly explain why Nanyombi had taken the drastic step, but mentioned the loan and its daily repayment.
Nansana Municipality Mayor Sam Mugabi said preliminary information indicated that Nanyombi had been under pressure from moneylenders over an unpaid loan.
Mugabi said she had reportedly received repeated calls from moneylenders on the Sunday before the fire, with the pressure allegedly continuing throughout the day.
The fire eventually trapped tenants inside the building, leaving three people dead.
Kampala Metropolitan Regional Police Commander SSP Moses Nanoka said homicide investigators were expected to establish exactly what happened and whether there were any other victims.
The Nansana deaths and Turyamureeba’s death are separate incidents, and there is no suggestion that the two cases are connected.
But both have brought renewed attention to the human cost of severe financial pressure and the methods used to recover debts.
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