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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>High Court in Mukono has sentenced a 45-year-old witchdoctor to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of murder and aggravated human trafficking.<\/p>\n

Justice Margret Mutonyi delivered the verdict on Mohammed Wamala who court says killed Zulaika Mirembe in a ritual murder aimed at trafficking humans to the shrine of his brother-in-law, Wilber Ssebuyungo, in Kisoga Village, Nazigo Sub County in Kayunga District.<\/p>\n

Ssebuyungo, 31, was in 2019 also sentenced by the same court to a 30 year-imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to the charges of murdering five people.<\/p>\n

However, Wamala, then, denied charges. Police and military intelligence operatives in 2018 arrested the witch doctor and recovered five human bodies from their shrine in Kisoga Village, Nazigo Sub-county, Kayunga District.<\/p>\n

Although Wamala is a resident of Nansana in Nansana municipality, he committed the crime in Kisoga village.<\/p>\n

At the crime scene, investigators discovered two bodies of male adults buried in one grave, while three others were buried in separate graves.<\/p>\n

The entire shrine where the graves were found had been cemented before detectives and residents dug through concrete to recover the bodies.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, each body was buried with a Shs5, 000 note. Police also recovered spears and pots containing human blood collected from the bodies.<\/p>\n

Court heard that \u201cin 2017 at Kisoga Village, Wamala with malice and forethought- murdered Nansamba by hitting her head with a pickaxe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victims sliced<\/b><\/p>\n

Prosecution relied on a post-mortem report by Mulago National Referral Hospital pathologist Dr Sam Kalungi that the deceased had a cracked head indicating that she succumbed to blunt trauma.<\/p>\n

In her judgment, Justice Mutonyi, said that Wamala\u2019s in-law Wilber Ssebuyungo who pleaded guilty to the same offenses in 2019 in exchange for a lighter sentence, also implicated him on the murder charges when he testified as a prosecution witness.<\/p>\n

In his testimony, Ssebuyungo told the court that Wamala and his employee, Jamilu Kimbugwe, who is still at large, cut the deceased into two.<\/p>\n

The defense lawyer told court that although it was Wamala who trained Ssebuyungo in herbal medicine he was not the one who trained him human sacrificing.<\/p>\n

While handing Wamala the life sentence, Justice Mutonyi, said: \u201cAlthough his lawyer wanted him handed a 16-year jail sentence, there was need to hand the convict a deterrent sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis case has exposed inhumane and wicked acts that go on in shrines. There is need to enact a law that would spell out clearly how herbal medicine should be administered.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cWamala said he was indoctrinated by his father who was a witch doctor into becoming a witch doctor. I wonder how many people were killed and buried in the shrine of Wamala\u2019s father.\u201d
\nThe justice wondered why Wamala seemed composed and maintained a straight look at the judge during the ruling while his relatives were reduced to tears.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven that one of the victims, Mirembe, was lured by a police officer to the shrine where she was killed puts a big challenge against fighting human sacrifice,\u201d Ms Mutonyi observed.<\/p>\n

An executive director of a local NGO taking care of Mirembe\u2019s child welcomed the ruling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was personally involved in the arrest of the suspects and I want to applaud police, the judge and court system for ensuring prosecution of the suspects,\u201d Mr Sewakiryanga said.<\/p>\n

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