Traditional healer pins man on child sacrifice
Jul 06, 2009
A traditional healer, Kalisa Sseruyange, has said he tipped the Police about an attempt by a man to sell a young boy’s head. Sseruyange, whose shrine is located in Kitega in Mukono district, told the Mukono Chief Magistrate, Tom Chemutai, that Paul Ssek
By John Semakula
A traditional healer, Kalisa Sseruyange, has said he tipped the Police about an attempt by a man to sell a young boy’s head. Sseruyange, whose shrine is located in Kitega in Mukono district, told the Mukono Chief Magistrate, Tom Chemutai, that Paul Ssekiziyivu on December 29, 2008 told him he could sell him the head.
Sseruyange allegedly said he was not interested and promised to link Ssekiziyivu to a rich man who would pay for the head. Court heard that Sseruyange arranged for a meeting between Ssekiziyivu and the Mukono district cultural officer, Jim Kato, who posed as the businessman interested in the head.
Kato agreed to pay sh4m for the boy’s head if it was produced on December 31, 2008. True to his word, Ssekiziyivu delivered the boy to Kato in Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb, after which they all drove back to Sseruyange’s shrine from where Kato was to finalise payment.
The Police arrested Ssekiziyivu from the shrine and the boy was rescued.
A traditional healer, Kalisa Sseruyange, has said he tipped the Police about an attempt by a man to sell a young boy’s head. Sseruyange, whose shrine is located in Kitega in Mukono district, told the Mukono Chief Magistrate, Tom Chemutai, that Paul Ssekiziyivu on December 29, 2008 told him he could sell him the head.
Sseruyange allegedly said he was not interested and promised to link Ssekiziyivu to a rich man who would pay for the head. Court heard that Sseruyange arranged for a meeting between Ssekiziyivu and the Mukono district cultural officer, Jim Kato, who posed as the businessman interested in the head.
Kato agreed to pay sh4m for the boy’s head if it was produced on December 31, 2008. True to his word, Ssekiziyivu delivered the boy to Kato in Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb, after which they all drove back to Sseruyange’s shrine from where Kato was to finalise payment.
The Police arrested Ssekiziyivu from the shrine and the boy was rescued.