Herbert Ssempogo
30 November 2008
Kampala — A MAN butchered his six-month-old son in Kampala on Saturday. The incident heightened the alarm surroundingâ-‚a string of ritual murders involving children in the city.
The horrific killing occurred in Nakinyuguzi, Makindye. Henry Sserubiri, detained at Katwe Police Station, is said to have used a knife to cut up his son, Elijah Kyanakyayesu.
Witnesses say Kyanakyayesu was brutally murdered at about 6:30pm in a bed-sitter home he shared with his mother Liz Nabaale, father Sserubiri and two-year-old brother,â-‚Wycliffe Buyongo.
Police, quoting a neighbour, said Sserubiri chopped Kyanakyayesu up while Nabaale, a petty trader, had gone to buy goods from Kikuubo, a busy business hub. When Nabaale returned, she asked her husband where the child was but received no response.
It is reported that Nabaale and her neighbour Charles Lwanga searched the house, driven by their suspicions. They discovered a blood-stained polyethylene bag. In it they found Kyanakyayesu's head, torso, chopped limbs and two knives, which Sserubiri reportedly used kill the child. The sight caused Nabaale to go into shock, witnesses said.
As ‚enraged crowds gathered, local council officials Betty Ssejje and Musa Kayemba locked Sserubiri in the house, away from enraged residents who wanted to lynch him.
Police, among them Katwe CID chief Sisye Kiirya and his Kabalagala counterpart Dennis Anywar, arrived shortly and whisked Sserubiri off to Katwe.
Kyanakyayesu's remains, which the detectives examined, were taken to the city mortuary in Mulago.
By press time, Nabaale remained admitted to Hope Clinic in Lukuli receiving treatment for shock.
Sserubiri's motive for the murder could not be established. Detectives are set to interrogate him this week.
The murder of the infant came to light as the Police searched for the head of 12-year-old Joseph Kasirye, who was killed in October in Masaka in what they suspect is a ritual murder. City businessman Godfrey Kato Kajubi is detained at Central Police Station in connection with the child's death.
Yesterday the Police arrested a witchdoctor in connection with Kasirye's murder.
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