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October 27, 2008
Joseph Kasirye, 12, was beheaded by Umaru Kateregga, 27, alias Bosco, a witchdoctor in Masaka with the help of his wife Marriam Nabukeera, 21. The couple, currently in prison, claim a certain prominent Kampala businessman, owning a string of buildings in the city and its suburbs, had asked them to get him three human heads, to be interred in the foundation of one of his buildings which is under construction.
June 6, 2007
Asmael Ssekajja, 9, a pupil of Mahad Primary School in Kisekka Sub-county, was beheaded in a ritual sacrifice. The Police discovered his decomposing head wrapped in a black polythene bag in a trench near a swamp. Parts of his body had been used in a ritual sacrifice. The rest of the boy’s body was found on top of an anthill, three kilometres away from his home. Three suspects were arrested. They included the victim’s aunt, Zamu Nalunga, her boyfriend Sharif Bashasha, who confessed to participating in the murder and Jaffari Kyaddondo, a traditional healer.
July 20, 2006
Edwin Muguluma, 5, was kidnapped from home at Masanafu, Lugala, a city suburb, and strangled to death by Kintu Mapeera. Muguluma’s body was wrapped in a sheet and buried in a shallow grave. Two men were arrested in connection with the murder. One of them, Mapeera, appeared at Mwanga II court early this year and was sent back to prison on remand.
2000
A 70-year-old woman believed to be a witch and a 20-year-old man were arrested by Entebbe Police in connection with the ritual murder of a 14-year-old girl. The woman had ordered the sacrifice of a young girl, whose blood was drunk by the man in the hope that this would make him rich. Nakawuka, 10, was kidnapped and taken to a witchdoctor, but only survived because she did not fit their specifications. She was dumped at a roadside in Nateete and eventually taken to Naguru Reception Centre, while her parents were being traced. No one was apprehended.
April 4, 1999
Shamim Mohammed, 5, of Naminya village in Kyaggwe County in Mukono District was sacrificed by Francis Mwanga. Police recovered Shamim’s mutilated body, which had no neck, right thumb, right second finger, private parts, a tongue and some blood vessels. Muwanga and his wife Gloria Nagadya confessed that they had been advised by a witchdoctor, Yunus Samanya, that if they sacrificed a child to the spirits, they would become rich.
January 22, 1999
One-year-old Milly Nsonyiwa of Mukono District disappeared from her mother, Esther Nakachwa.
A month later, Milly’s remains were found in a shrine belonging to Kizito, a traditional healer in the same district. Her body had been cut into pieces — symbolic of sacrifice to the gods.
October 9, 1998
Reuben Mugabe, 12, narrowly escaped death when his father,
40-year-old James Kareju Mugisha of Mbarara District was arrested while trying to sell him to Strabag Construction Company for sh3m for ritual sacrifice. Mugisha, a father of 13, had hoped to escape poverty by selling one of his sons.
Published on: Saturday, 22nd November, 2008
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