Daily Monitor
Wednesday August 04 2021
Summary
Last month , President Museveni assented to the Prevention and Prohibition of Human Sacrifice Act 2020.
The Kayunga District officer-in-charge of the criminal investigations department, Mr Justine Opio, said they combed the whole forested area, where Musilumu claimed to have buried his second child.
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Police detectives and local authorities in Kayunga District have for the last three months failed to recover remains of the second victim of child sacrifice.
Three months ago Musilumu Mbwire, a father of three sacrificed two children after being promised Shs4 million and a commercial building in Bbaale Trading Centre.
Mbwire confessed to have killed Latif Kamulasi,7, and his 3-year-old sibling Sahum Baizambona by slitting their throats before collecting the blood.
The Prevention and Prohibition of Human Sacrifice Bill, 2020 was presented for first reading by Ayivu County Member of Parliament, Bernard Atiku.
The bill provides a unique legal frame work that criminalizes the act of human sacrifice which is not the case in the penal code Act, the penal code Act considers the act of human sacrifice as murder while this bill considers it a criminal offence that needs to be criminalized alone.
Atiku is pushing this bill on grounds that despite the government effort to protect an individual’s right to life and degrading acts, ritual killings and human sacrifice practices are on the rise in Uganda with children being the common victims.