Two arrested for suspected ritual murders
THE Police Anti-Human Trafficking Squad, in collaboration with other security agencies, on Wednesday stormed a shrine in Wakiso district and arrested two traditional healers.
By Eddie Ssejjoba
THE Police Anti-Human Trafficking Squad, in collaboration with other security agencies, on Wednesday stormed a shrine in Wakiso district and arrested two traditional healers.
The head of the squad, Moses Binoga, said intelligence reports linked two men picked from Zanta zone in Ndejje and several others to ritual murders.
The pair, Ssalongo Baliddawa and Frank Kitinda Musambwa, are also being investigated by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for extortion of money and other property from clients.
He said the prime suspect and owner of the shrine, Hussein Kalule, popularly known as Nzoyizoyi, had fled the area.
Kalule heads a racket of traditional medicine men, who were suspected to be involved in the disappearance of people who seek their services.
The Police recovered several fetishes and photographs of people from the shrine, who are suspected to be victims or former clients.
“We have reports that these doctors have been taking their clients to isolated places along Lake Victoria’s shores, and to rocky hills in Busaabala and Mpigi. Some of their victims are never heard from again,†he said.
Binoga warned that the Police were monitoring several other shrines and would arrest traditional healers found cheating people.
THE Police Anti-Human Trafficking Squad, in collaboration with other security agencies, on Wednesday stormed a shrine in Wakiso district and arrested two traditional healers.
The head of the squad, Moses Binoga, said intelligence reports linked two men picked from Zanta zone in Ndejje and several others to ritual murders.
The pair, Ssalongo Baliddawa and Frank Kitinda Musambwa, are also being investigated by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for extortion of money and other property from clients.
He said the prime suspect and owner of the shrine, Hussein Kalule, popularly known as Nzoyizoyi, had fled the area.
Kalule heads a racket of traditional medicine men, who were suspected to be involved in the disappearance of people who seek their services.
The Police recovered several fetishes and photographs of people from the shrine, who are suspected to be victims or former clients.
“We have reports that these doctors have been taking their clients to isolated places along Lake Victoria’s shores, and to rocky hills in Busaabala and Mpigi. Some of their victims are never heard from again,†he said.
Binoga warned that the Police were monitoring several other shrines and would arrest traditional healers found cheating people.