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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Ms Mariam Nalubega Sseguya, the Kiboga Resident District Commissioner has ordered a head count and identification programme aimed at registering all genuine traditional healers in the district.<\/b><\/p>\n

If well conducted, Ms Nalubega said the exercise will help weed out quacks who have over the years infiltrated the traditional healers\u2019 business and tarnished their image by engaging in felonious acts like child sacrifice, theft, robbery and rape.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany wrong elements are masquerading as traditional healers to achieve their ill intentions which has tarnished the name of herbalists in the country. We are going to have this census to weed out all fake traditional healers who are engaging in criminal activities,\u201d she said while addressing a security meeting at Kirinda Village ,Kiboga District on April 5.<\/p>\n

The meeting was attended by internal security officers at all levels, village chairpersons and religious leaders.<\/p>\n

She also ordered for the arrest of Sulamain Ssentongo, a traditional healer who is suspected to be behind the Thursday morning suspected ritual murder of two siblings at Kirinda Village.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis [Ssentongo] wife is already in police custody, but we need him also to tell us what he knows about this heinous act,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

This comes a day after mutilated body parts of fiver-year-old Esther Nakasumba and her two-year-old sister Sylvia Natongo were recovered from a brick furnace near Kasinina Elimu Church, located less than a kilometre from the victims home in Kirinda.<\/p>\n

The duo had gone missing on April 3 after their parents whom they had accompanied to their farm asked them to go back home for lunch, but they never reached their destination.<\/p>\n

Ms Maria Lubega , the Deputy RDC Kiboga District said there are too many shrines in the area and they need to be checked.<\/p>\n

\u201c We are going to comb one by one to find out what exactly is taking place there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Traditional healers have for a long time been blamed for the recurrent cases of child sacrifice and mysterious deaths especially in central region, while some have been accused of raping women who visit their shrines.<\/p>\n

In 2018 , Local leaders in neigbouring Mubende District called for banning of the traditional healers in the area saying they advertise on various radio stations that they have super natural powers to make people rich, which is not true.<\/p>\n

Some people who visit shrines claim that traditional healers use remains of the dead to cast spells on their clients\u2019 enemies. However, this cannot be elaborately explained by practitioners or proven scientifically.<\/p>\n

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