Traditional healer held over kidnap
THE Police in Wakiso district are holding a traditional healer accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old boy. Ismael Kabona, 42, is detained at Nsangi Police Station after Timothy Nsanja led the Police to his shrine in Nakitokolo, Nsangi sub-county.
By Herbert Ssempogo
THE Police in Wakiso district are holding a traditional healer accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old boy. Ismael Kabona, 42, is detained at Nsangi Police Station after Timothy Nsanja led the Police to his shrine in Nakitokolo, Nsangi sub-county.
The boy told journalists that he was returning home when two men waylaid him in Tega Zone in Nabbingo.
“They emerged from an incomplete building and pushed me into a saloon vehicle in which I was gagged. I blacked out. When I came to my senses, I was in a shrine,†Nsanja, a Primary Six pupil at St. Joseph Primary School in Nabbingo, said.
In the shrine, a man suspected to be Kabona removed Nsanja’s shirt and examined him.
“After scrutinising my body, he told the men who grabbed me that they had taken the wrong person. He ordered them to drive me back,†Nsanja recalled.
He said his captors dumped him in a bush in Namagoma and he went to his mother’s hair saloon in Nabbingo trading centre.
In company of his father, Godfrey Ssekuubwe, Nsanja led authorities to the grass-thatched shrine in Nakitokolo, where he identified Kabona as the man, who undressed him. Natikokolo is about two miles from Nabbingo.
Kabona was arrested and the Police have launched investigations into the circumstances under which the boy was kidnapped, Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said.
A team from Nsangi would return to Nakitokolo for more clues about Kabona’s activities.
Kabona reportedly owns other shrines in Mugongo on the Kampala-Masaka road.
Kabona, however, claimed that he was framed, saying he had never seen Nsanja.
Speculation was rife that the two men who kidnapped Nsanja wanted to use parts of his body in rituals. A total 15 juveniles died last year in similar circumstances, according to the Police.
The Police recently outlawed activities of traditional healers in Busabala, Wakiso district, after a man’s body was recovered in the area the head was chopped off.
THE Police in Wakiso district are holding a traditional healer accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old boy. Ismael Kabona, 42, is detained at Nsangi Police Station after Timothy Nsanja led the Police to his shrine in Nakitokolo, Nsangi sub-county.
The boy told journalists that he was returning home when two men waylaid him in Tega Zone in Nabbingo.
“They emerged from an incomplete building and pushed me into a saloon vehicle in which I was gagged. I blacked out. When I came to my senses, I was in a shrine,†Nsanja, a Primary Six pupil at St. Joseph Primary School in Nabbingo, said.
In the shrine, a man suspected to be Kabona removed Nsanja’s shirt and examined him.
“After scrutinising my body, he told the men who grabbed me that they had taken the wrong person. He ordered them to drive me back,†Nsanja recalled.
He said his captors dumped him in a bush in Namagoma and he went to his mother’s hair saloon in Nabbingo trading centre.
In company of his father, Godfrey Ssekuubwe, Nsanja led authorities to the grass-thatched shrine in Nakitokolo, where he identified Kabona as the man, who undressed him. Natikokolo is about two miles from Nabbingo.
Kabona was arrested and the Police have launched investigations into the circumstances under which the boy was kidnapped, Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said.
A team from Nsangi would return to Nakitokolo for more clues about Kabona’s activities.
Kabona reportedly owns other shrines in Mugongo on the Kampala-Masaka road.
Kabona, however, claimed that he was framed, saying he had never seen Nsanja.
Speculation was rife that the two men who kidnapped Nsanja wanted to use parts of his body in rituals. A total 15 juveniles died last year in similar circumstances, according to the Police.
The Police recently outlawed activities of traditional healers in Busabala, Wakiso district, after a man’s body was recovered in the area the head was chopped off.