Tips on ending ritual murders out

Sep 28, 2009

THE Police have issued guidelines to the public to curb ritual murders that claimed about 21 lives between January and August.<br>The anti-sacrifice trafficking taskforce chief, Moses Binoga, said of the 21 people murdered, 13 were juveniles.

Darious Magara and Michael Odeng

THE Police have issued guidelines to the public to curb ritual murders that claimed about 21 lives between January and August.
The anti-sacrifice trafficking taskforce chief, Moses Binoga, said of the 21 people murdered, 13 were juveniles.

Binoga, also the assistant commissioner of Police, said most the victims of child sacrifice have not been under the care of their biological parents and that the killers take advantage of the laxity of the caretakers.

He appealed to the public to watch out for traditional healers, who are believed to be the perpetuators of the practice.

Binoga told a weekly Police briefing at the Kampala Central Police Station yesterday that they had intensified investigations into cases of human sacrifice and had arrested 91 suspects since January, 32 of whom had been taken to court.

He asked families to report cases of missing members to ensure timely investigations and prosecution of suspects.

Binoga advised parents to gather reasonable information about people entrusted with their children like maids and to find out about peers and friends of their children at school and home.

He also advised that children should not be sent to markets, shops or distant schools unaccompanied by an adult especially at night.

“Children should not accept transport offers or eats from strangers or even relatives. People should know their neighbours and report suspicious characters,” he warned.

Binoga added that school administrators should not allow students to be visited by unauthorised persons.

Many cases of human sacrifices were reported early this year following mysteriously disappearance of people and the discovery of abandoned body parts.

It is also suspected that some rich people use the human parts in shrines in the belief that they evoke business success while others use them on construction sites claiming that they dispel bad spirits.

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