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Saturday April 24 2021
Businessman Godfrey Kato Kajubi (right) appears at the Supreme Court early last year during hearing of his appeal against his conviction for murdering 12-year-old Joseph Kasirye in 2012. PHOTO /JULIET KIGONGO.
Summary
According to the Bill, human sacrifice involves beliefs or faith and dismembering of human body parts, and targets the most vulnerable persons of society such as children and persons with disabilities
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Persons found guilty of committing acts of mutilating and or causing death of another person for purposes of performing a ritual, and those found in possession of human body parts, will suffer death upon conviction, according to the proposed legal framework pending before Parliament.
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.
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