Fred Turyakira
5 July 2009
Kampala — THE Police in Mbarara have arrested a 28-year-old man suspected to have been trying to sell his three-and-a-half-year-old son at sh4m.
The south-western regional child and family protection unit officer, Carolyn Kushemererwa, said Apollo Mwesigwa, a peasant of Kanyarugiri in Nyamarebe sub-county, Ibanda district, was arrested when Benon Mwesigye, a UPDF officer, pretended to help him sell the child.
Kushemererwa said Mwesigwa asked Mwesigye to find a buyer for the child.
"Last week, Mwesigye told Mwesigwa to bring the boy to Mbarara to meet the buyer," Kushemererwa said, adding that Mwesigye had reported the matter to the Police.
He said Mwesigwa would be charged with child trafficking and selling with the intention of sacrificing the boy.
Mwesigwa said he was selling his son because his step-mother, Medius Kobusingye, mistreated him, adding that she had told him to take the child to its mother.
"I did not have any intention of sacrificing the boy," he said.
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