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Uganda and the demonic strong hold of Cannibalism : Six arrested in connection with Cannibalism in Rakai
Cannibalism in Rakai: Woman and child allegedly eaten
http://ntvuganda.co.ug/top-stories/cannibalism-in-rakai-woman-and-child-allegedly-eatenMy analysis
I was a catholic for over 20 years before the lord Jesus Christ saved me by his grace . I now look back and wonder how some one can be so blind to believe the witchcraft and satanic doctrines of the catholic church. Surely, Satan is behind the deception and witchcraft in this Luciferic system . In Masaka where I grew up from, we continued to be under the leadership of a catechist who was either a witch or cannibal(omusezi). It should not be surprising that witches and cannibals find a safe haven in catholicism . The most powerful spirits that control the roman catholic church are the spirits of death. Many Catholics in Uganda spend a lot of time and resources burying the dead, listening to death news , praying for the dead, making graves for the dead , praying to dead saints etc. Thus, it should not surprise us when cannibals who enjoy eating fresh of the dead enjoy Catholicism. A couple of days back cannibals in Rakai killed a mother and her daughter and terribly injured the father. These cannibals are prominent Catholics in this area. In fact one local tabloid is alleging that their leader is a sabakirisitu(local head of Catholics ).
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Catholicism hardens man heart from salvation
Catholicism hardens the heart of human beings such that they shun salvation from the Lord Jesus Christ and instead trust in useless works that do not save. A friend of mine was preaching to a roman catholic recently. This catholic guy said he will never become born again. He said he rather goes to hell than getting saved.He bragged that catholics are so many that they will extinguish the fires of hell. Can you imagine how heard hearted a catholic can be!!
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Panic As Cannibalism Suspect Commits Suicide
One of the suspects arrested in Rakai district over cannibalism has reportedly committed suicide in a Police cell in Masaka.
Noah Serunjogi, the Regional Police Spokes person
Musujja was one of the six suspects arrested early in the week in connection with the alleged disappearance and murder of a 21 year-old woman and her baby in Rakai. He was then transferred to Masaka Police station for custody.
Fellow inmates sounded an alarm that attracted the attention of officers on duty.
Serunjogi adds that the incident has since caused panic among other suspects and police constables being the first of its kind to happen at station. He added that they are still investigating the matter to establish the actual cause of his death.
The matter stems from a brutal incident that occurred at Kagombe village, Kyalurangira Sub County in Rakai District when a mother and her nine months-old baby were butchered. The victims had reportedly travelled to attend a burial in Kyarurangira-Rakai.
It is said that the woman, Peace Alinaitwe and her husband Deus Bandihihi, both residents of Kankamba village in Kabongo parish-Kisekka Sub-county in Lwengo District failed to travel back to Lwengo before nightfall and reportedly searched for accommodation.
John Ssegirinya, the village chairman offered to host them for a night.
According to Bandihihi, Ssegirinya turned against them and hacked his wife Alinaitwe and the baby into pieces with the help of Asaf Tumuhimbisibwe and his wife Jovelet Nuwagaba.
Bindihihi escaped with severe injuries and later reported the matter to police leading to the arrest of the six suspects.
Bugiri Man Arrested Over Cannibalism
http://www.redpepper.co.ug/bugiri-man-arrested-over-cannibalism/
By: Our Reporter
Published: March 30, 2014
Police in Bugiri are holding a 24 year old man for alleged cannibalism.
Etyang Ezekiel, a resident of Bugeso village in Iwemba Sub County was found with a human skeleton at his home. After his arrest at the weekend, Etyang confessed to police of practicing witchcraft.
Kyeyune Idris, the officer in charge of Bugiri police station, said that they arrested the suspect following a tip off from residents .
He says Etyang told police that he had exhumed the body of a resident who died recently in the area to perform rituals and become rich.
Kyeyune says the suspect faces charges of disturbing the peace of the dead as soon as investigations are complete. Some of the bones had blood.
Etyang who was arrested after a family dog was seen munching on the skull. But Etyang claims that he had smeared chicken blood on the skull as one way of cleansing the spirit of the deceased.
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This is part I of Saturday Vision's project aimed at sensitising people about the strange phenomenon of cannibalism.
It may not be physically proved as existing but its impact is beyond something you can ignore. People are killed, evicted and looted at a mere allegation and civil authorities are at a loss on how they can handle the situation. For a whole month, we shall bring you a series of what is happening in seven districts.
You may brush it off as an old silly talk to scare crying babies, but cannibalism today is ranking up there among rural evils threatening village cohesion, harmony and fuelling mob justice.
Allegations, reprisals, evictions, police cases and public confessions of cannibals abound in many societies of Uganda.
Saturday Vision visited the districts of Kyenjojo, Kabalore, Hoima, Masindi, Isingiro, Mbale and Buikwe to establish first hand, the possible existence of cannibalism in modern day. These stories will run every Saturday for the next month.
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On May 25, a two year old child, Juliet Giramyu, passed away. She was the fourth to die of unclear causes in Kamandindi village in Ngwedo sub-county, Buliisa district.
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Residents of Karambi sub-county evicted Tereza and destroyed her gardens in February, after accusing her of cannibalism. It was said Tereza had previously been evicted from Kooki and Kyaggwe
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Katwigi denied the allegations before sending away Saturday Vision reporters
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William Kenya showing one of the houses that was demolished after residents suspected the owner of cannibalism.
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Arinaitwe's arm was broken and her left thumb chopped off
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Last week, we ran a story about cannibalism in Uganda, focusing on Kabarole district. In a continuation of our series, this week, we focus on Kibaale district.
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Cannibalism in Kibaale is not a new word to the locals. No one expresses shock over it. “Oh, you are looking for cannibals?” A security officer at my hotel asked.
“Be careful. Some people who came before you on the same mission have disappeared!”
The elderly man said the vice has somehow, thanks to Bisaka’s religion of Obumu (The Faith of Unity). Bisaka is the self-declared god whose spiritual powers have attracted many into his Obumu.
“Bisaka’s power does not tolerate witchcraft, cannibalism, and wrong doers. In fact when he had just started preaching in early 1980s, he used to identify cannibals by just looking at them. He would then warn them to stop,” he said.
“Those who refused would face it rough. My daughter, I witnessed people die! Cannibals really saw what Bisaka was made of. That’s how cannibalism reduced in this area.”
Bisaka’s effect
Dosteo Bisaaka was a Catholic catechist till 1980 and left to start his own religion. He is now the leader of more than two million people in Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo and South Sudan. Owobusobozi Bisaka is revered and worshiped as god and generally feared by all. Even those who criticise him for calling himself god acknowledge his success in identifying and healing witches and cannibals and generally reducing their numbers in the area.
At Bisaka’s Itambiro (palace), I was received by the leaders, Omukwenda Tuhumwire and Omukwenda Turyamureba. Turyamureba said, about 50% who joined Bisaka were witchdoctors and 5%, cannibals.
“This area was really bad but Bisaka kept on teaching people to stop witchcraft and cannibalism and those that came to the Itambiro (Healing place) were saved. They are now good and developmental people in the society,” he said.
“I identify and heal cannibals and witches. I order them to repent and change them to good people. Those who refuse, I curse and they die. I will not allow any cannibal to remain in this area,” said the soft-spoken ecclesiastic whose following spreads across Toro, Bunyoro and Kigezi.
One of the reformed cannibals at Bisaka’s itambiro, who asked not to be identified, narrates: “I was bewitched into eating human flesh. Satanic medicines entered me without knowledge of what I was suffering from. Owobusobozi sent the charms out of me. I was healed instantly.”
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Bisaka, the self-declared god (R), with ethics minister Fr. Simon Lokodo (L). PHOTO/Hope MafarangaAsked where he got such special power, Bisaka frowned: “I am God! I can see what you don’t see. I can read people’s minds.”
Bisaka was the first to do mass scale healing of cannibals thereby introducing an alternative to exclusion and lynching. The healed were allowed back to their villages or stayed at Bisaka’s matambiro where he established a new moral order and transformed sinners into good people.
“Cannibals are not really responsible for their actions because they are forced into it by satan. If repented and confessed, they change.
The healing begins with a confession. I exorcize the demon and lay hands on their heads and the confessor vomits out all satanic stuff,” he explains.
Crime and withcraft
A councillor in the area, who asked to remain anonymous, said cannibalism is thick in the areas of Kenga, Buraro, Bwikara, Kyaterekera and Kamusegu.
“They exhume bodies to eat them and use the skull for witchcraft. I have witnessed this number of time,” He said.
The O/C Kagadi police station, Joseph Ayesiga, said they get more than four cases weekly. That very week, a teacher of Nyankoma primary school, identified as Irumba, was evicted by locals over allegations that he ate a neighbour’s child. His house was demolished. We arrested 15 people in connection with the case.
But the classic was about Kule Kiiza.
“On 12th May 2013, we arrested Kule Kiiza aged 39 and a Mukonjo from Kyaterekera after one Enid Korukiiko complained that he was trying to eat her.”
According to a statement I saw at the police, case number KD/SRB/501/2013, Korukiiko said rowdy gods awoke her at around 11:00pm in the night and she decided to chase them. But one dog remained to fight her. She made an alarm which attracted the neighbours. When they arrived, the dog turned into a naked man they identified as Kiiza! They grabbed him and beat him. He confessed that he had left his clothes in the bush where they found his yellow shirt and black trousers. They took Kiiza to Kyaterekera police post.
Ayesiga said Kiiza escaped the next day using witchcraft. “The policeman on duty at that post wrote in a statement that he saw a dog entering the cells and he chased it off, only realize that Kiiza was not in the cells,” Ayesiga said.
“We submitted his file to the state attorney who said there was no way a human can turn into a dog,” he explained.
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Tereza lives in Kabarole district. Her banana plantantion was cut by residents who suspected her of cannibalismMore people chased
The Chairman of Bwikara sub-county, Godadi Tumwebaze said about four cases are reported every week.
“In Rwentahi village, on 2nd of this month, Steven Matsiko’s wife was chased from Kibingo after she was suspected of bewitching a neighbour’s daughter into madness. I advised her to go away because people turned against her and she ignored me,” Tumwebaze said.
Tumwebaze also talked of one Joseph Kyaligonza.
“He is my neighbour in Kamusegu trading centre. I even attacked him one time and he denied. I have a petition from the residents of Kisungu who put him on last warning. They say they are also monitoring one Eriya and another Kisembo of Nyakarongo,” he said. “I have tried my best including buying one kilogram of meat monthly to the suspected families so that they can stop eating people,” he said.
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I've heard about those stories - TinkasimireBy Gloria Musiime
Buyaga County MP Barnabas Tinkasimire says: I thank Owobushobozi Bisaka who has uprooted and healed cannibals. In the mid 1980s, cannibals were feared.
Sometimes the community would arrest the suspects and take them to Police, but they would be released for lack of evidence.
I was also told such people would change into cats if they wanted to eat you. There was a man who one time turned into a cat and wanted to eat his brother.
When his brother picked a panga to chase away a cat, it turned into a human being, pleading ‘my brother, don’t kill me’.
The way forward is to issue threats against them because the Police do not help. Bisaka has helped, but those who have persisted should be forced to relocate.
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POLIISI olwesozze ennyumba ya Seregio Mpoza okutandika okwaza akaana ne kabategeeza mangu nti, “Mujje mbatwale bulijjo taata gy’asuula amagumba mu lusuku” ne bazuulayo agawerako agagambibwa okubeera ag’abantu abazze babula mu kitundu.
Baagenze okumaliriza okukung’aanya amagumba nga Mpoza ne mutabaniwe Aloyzius Kasujja 15 babatadde ku mpingu kyokka bino byonna okubeerawo ng’ate Erias Musujja abadde agambibwa okukulira ekikoosi kino ekibuzaawo abantu yeetugidde mu kaduukulu ka poliisi e Masaka okusinziira ku Nuuwa Sserunjogi, omwogezi wa poliisi mu kitundu.
Ekitongole kya Poliisi ekya Flying Squad kyenyigidde mu muyiggo ne boogeza Asafu Tumuhimbise ne Bosco Ssegirinya abaasoose okutegeeza nti balina gye baziika amagumba ate ebitundu ebimu babisuula mu kaabuyonjo era ebifo byonna Poliisi yabisimye kyokka teyazuddeyo kantu.
Okutuuka wano kyavudde ku mukazi Peace Kyomukama okubeera nga baamusala n’omwana we ow’emyezi 9 n’abulako effiire ng’ate bba Gabudyeri Bandihihi alumiriza nti abasajja bano baamusala ng’abalaba ennyama ne bagitikka ku pikipiki ne bagitwala.
Byabaddewo wiiki ewedde e Kyakilugu-Lubiimba ggombolola y’e Kyalulangira e Kibaale-Kooki mu Rakai.
OMWANA ALUMIRIZZA KITAAWE
Olwatandise okwaza ewa Mpoza ye ne yeegaana nti talina ky’amanyi ku by’okubuzaawo abantu kyokka mutabaniwe Kasujja n’agitegeeza nti kitaawe yasooka kuleeta nnyama ne bagirya n’ebayisa bubi. Omulundi ogwaddako n’abasirira emmumbwa gye baanywa ne batandika okugirya.
Omwana yategeezezza nti mu kiseera abantu bano we baabulidde era kitaawe yaleese ennyama ng’ewerako n’ayawuzaamu ne basigazaawo kyokka endala yamulagidde agisibe ku ggaali agitwalire Sengawe mwannyina wa Mpoza abeera e Kakuuto kyokka Mpoza yabyegaanyi n’ategeeza nti kirabika mutabani we yabadde atabuse omutwe.
EYEETUZE Y’ABADDE ALINA OKULUMIRIZA ABALALA
Musujja eyeetugidde mu kaduukulu ka poliisi abadde mutabani wa Segiriinya gwe balumiriza nti y’abadde anoonyeza ennyama yaabwe akatale era ne ku Kyomukama gwe baawa ennyama esinga obungi.
Ng’omulambo gwa Musujja gukyalemedde mu ggwanika e Masaka ye Tumuhimbise yannyonnyodde nti Musujja, mutabani wa Segiriinya, y’abadde atambuza ennyama era nga y’amanyi abantu b’agiguza nga ne ku mulundi guno ye yagitunze.
Ku Lwomukaaga ekiro poliisi yakyusizza Musujja okuva e Rakai okumuzza e Masaka kyokka ku makya baasanze yeetuze.
Omwogezi wa poliisi mu Greater Masaka, Nuuwa Sserunjogi yategeezezza nti omulambo gwa Musujja baagututte mu ggwanika e Masaka kyokka abooluganda tebaagala kugunonayo.
Musujja gwebabadde basuubira okubuulira poliisi abantu baabadde aguza era ng’alina okugitegeeza beyaguza ku mulundi guno ogwabakwasizza.
Etyang Ezekiel, a resident of Bugeso village in Iwemba Sub County was found with a human skeleton at his home. After his arrest at the weekend, Etyang confessed to police of practicing witchcraft.
Kyeyune Idris, the officer in charge of Bugiri police station, said that they arrested the suspect following a tip off from residents .
He says Etyang told police that he had exhumed the body of a resident who died recently in the area to perform rituals and become rich.
Kyeyune says the suspect faces charges of disturbing the peace of the dead as soon as investigations are complete. Some of the bones had blood.
Etyang who was arrested after a family dog was seen munching on the skull. But Etyang claims that he had smeared chicken blood on the skull as one way of cleansing the spirit of the deceased.
Scary cannibal stories exposed in many districts
Publish Date: Sep 23, 2013
Clovis Bamuroho (carrying a sack) of Karambi sub-county, Kabarole district was evicted last month after his daughter-in-law ran away, spreading rumours that the family she had married into were cannibals. Residents found human bones in Bamuroho’s house, which they made him carry in a sack. All pictures by Hope Mafaranga
Hope Mafaranga and Rogers Sunday This is part I of Saturday Vision's project aimed at sensitising people about the strange phenomenon of cannibalism.
It may not be physically proved as existing but its impact is beyond something you can ignore. People are killed, evicted and looted at a mere allegation and civil authorities are at a loss on how they can handle the situation. For a whole month, we shall bring you a series of what is happening in seven districts.
You may brush it off as an old silly talk to scare crying babies, but cannibalism today is ranking up there among rural evils threatening village cohesion, harmony and fuelling mob justice.
Allegations, reprisals, evictions, police cases and public confessions of cannibals abound in many societies of Uganda.
Saturday Vision visited the districts of Kyenjojo, Kabalore, Hoima, Masindi, Isingiro, Mbale and Buikwe to establish first hand, the possible existence of cannibalism in modern day. These stories will run every Saturday for the next month.
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On May 25, a two year old child, Juliet Giramyu, passed away. She was the fourth to die of unclear causes in Kamandindi village in Ngwedo sub-county, Buliisa district.
According to the district crime intelligence officer, Deo Zakumumpa, the relatives of the four deceased people met and agreed to contribute money and hire a witch doctor to explain their problems.
“A witchdoctor called Salume from Pakwach in Nebbi told them a woman called Asinati Malenia, 50, was the one killing and eating them,” Zakumumpa narrated.
“They wanted to storm her house but as Police, we advised to leave it to us. On September 5, we searched Malenia’s house and found a smoked human foot in a bucket believed to belong to the late Giramyu. We arrested Malenia, who confessed to being a cannibal. She said she was not born a cannibal but became one three years ago. But she could not tell how she became one.”
Zakumumpa disclosed that they also arrested Annet Anirwoth, 30, and Gladys Arombo, 19, because they were Malenia’s colleagues who were found with her at the time of arrest to help them with investigations. Anirwoth and Arombo have denied being cannibals.
“We are considering DNA tests for the smoked foot and blood sample of Giramyu’s mother, Jessica Akumu to ascertain whether it belonged to the deceased baby. We shall also visit the grave to ascertain whether the body is there or not. We are still expecting a police surgeon from Kampala,” he said.
The CID boss warned residents not to tamper with the grave to distort evidence.
Residents say such cases are rife in Sonsyo and Walukuba sub-counties.
Residents of Karambi sub-county evicted Tereza and destroyed her gardens in February, after accusing her of cannibalism. It was said Tereza had previously been evicted from Kooki and Kyaggwe
Ugandans eating people
In Kyenjojo, there areas like Kyarusozi, Kisenyi and Katooke said to have been notoriously dangerous until recently when the religion of Owobusobozi Bisaaka launched a war on cannibalism.
In Kabalore, places like Kabusoke, Kagore, Nyabwina and Kanyasi were visited and the habit still goes on. In Isingiro, Katoma, Nyamarungo, Endizi, Mbare, Kyanyanda, Rwangabo, Kihanda, Rugaaga and Bukanga were mentioned. In Masindi, Kilannyi, Kisabagwa and Kisanja were visited.
In Buganda, Kyaggwe (Buikwe, Mukono) is largely believed to be the home of night dancing and the Butiko clan, patrons of a dance in Kabaka’s court known as Amaggunju, is pointed at as the originators of night dancing.
However, night dancing of a cannibalistic nature is more reported in Buluuli county where, people are still warned never to walk alone after night fall.
In Uganda, the Lord's Resistance Army are also accused of routine ritual or magical cannibalism. Children returning from the LRA rebel camps told how they were forced at gunpoint to drink the blood of murdered victims.
The cannibalism book
In October 2011, Prof Heike Behrend and others published a shocking book on cannibalism in Uganda based on a long and intensive fieldwork in Toro area. The book, Resurrecting Cannibals; The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda, offers first hand incidents of crusades, exorcisms, cleansing and the afterlives of ex cannibals, uses the African spiritual relationship between body, food and society to reconstruct a pre-colonial cosmology of consumption and digestion.
Behrend, the professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany, also explains how cannibalism draws on both pre-Christian ideas and church dogma of the bodily resurrection and the ritual of Holy Communion. His co-author, James Currey, is also the author of Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits (1999), and co-editor of Spirit Possession, Modernity and Power in Africa (1999)
According to the book, Toro cannibals are witches: they bewitch people who die only to be resurrected and eaten. The cannibals are however being diminished by a lay movement of the Catholic Church, the Uganda Martyrs Guild (UMG), which organizes witch-hunts to cleanse the country. Other forces in the fight are Owobusobozi Bisaka, the Seventh Day Adventists and the many Pentecostal churches.
A visit to a suspected cannibal
It is 8: 30am. I arrived at Rwimi town council offices and inquired from the secretary if I could see the LC III chairman. She asked why and I told her I was pursuing a cannibalism story.One of the women who was waiting for Abel Ngomayondi, the Rwimi town council chairman, exclaimed in bewilderment: “Are you sure you want to meet cannibals? Be careful, you may end up in their bellies. In fact in my village Nyabwina there is a man called Africano Katwigi. That man has really eaten people in this area!” She said.
Katwigi denied the allegations before sending away Saturday Vision reporters
The woman, whose name is Annette Kabasinguzi, continued to narrate how, in May this year, Katwigi ate one of her neighbour’s child and the residents rose up, attacked his family and chopped his daughter, Angela Mary Arinaitwe, to near-death.
“If you insist on going there, make sure you don’t enter his house. If you do, sit near the door and make sure you change the chair from its original location. That is a tip for your safety.”
Kabasinguzi also advised me not to go alone. “Your family may never see you again. In fact New Vision will come here to write about you when you go missing. If I was your parent, I would not allow you to go there alone,” she pleaded.
That is why I called my colleague, Rogers Sunday, to accompany me.
Before we left, Kabasinguzi gave us a brief. Cannibals, she explained, do not eat a live person. “They use witchcraft to ‘kill’ their targeted victims. The victim’s dead body remains sweating and soft and you can see clearly that the dead body is active but the hospital will insist that the victim is dead.”
She also advised us not to eat anything they give us. “For us, even if someone dies in that family, we just go and burry but we do not eat or drink anything from there. And even when they greet us we don’t respond,” she said.
Ngomayondi’s story
Ngomayondi, the LC III Rwimi town council added that in May 2006 when he first came to Rwimi, cannibalism was so rampant and common.
“It has not really stopped despite the prayers and sensitization of the communities,” he said. “My first shock was when we buried one of the residents and in the following morning the grave had sank in. I stopped being the doubting Thomas.”
Ngomayondi also knew about Africano, whom the residents were accusing of being a cannibal. He said he has ever taken a Charismatic group from Virika and Yerya parishes to pray for Africano’s family so that they can stop eating people.
“The Charismatic people prayed and cast out the demon of eating people from Africano’s family. It was not easy. I had police to keep law and order because I knew people would turn violent and kill the whole family,” he added.
“We even carried out an operation in Kabusoke, Kagore, Nyabwina and Kanyasi, and discovered human bones and fresh human meat from some homes,” he said. “We burnt them and arrested the culprits. Can you imagine you die and people follow you into your grave and eat your fresh?” he asked.
Ngomoyondi said that originally, the habit was extremely common among the Bakonzo but now the Bakiga have been recruited into the practice and are becoming the masters instead.
Kenya’s story
William Kenya showing one of the houses that was demolished after residents suspected the owner of cannibalism.
William Kenya, the LC 1 chairman of Kagore said that, recently, one of the girls he did not want to name, went crazy and started shouting: “They are going to eat me! They are going to eat me!” Locals suspected one of the old woman identified as Gladys to be behind the girl’s madness.
They arrested and forced Gladys to touch the girl. She got healed instantly.
“That was proof she was a cannibal. Gladys was chased from the village and her house was demolished.”
Mbabazi’s experience
At first, Joyce Mbabazi, 30, did not want to tell me her story. Later she opened up and narrated, in between tearful break downs, how her three children collapsed and died suddenly in less than 10 minutes. It was in 2003. She believes her children were eaten by the cannibals.
“I was in the kitchen,” she said. “A strong wind with a lot of dust blew and covered my kids. I rushed to rescue them but by the time the dust settled, the kids started dropping off to death one after the other. Blood was oozing from both their nose and mouth.
"I wailed and my neighbours came. We rushed them to a nearby clinic where they were all pronounced dead. The doctor said all the hearts of the three children were not beating,” she said.
For three days, neighbours were arguing over whether the kids should be buried or not.
“They did not look like dead people. They looked fresh throughout and would sometimes sweat. I insisted on not burying them until, without cause, I dropped unconscious. When I gained my senses, burial preparations had begun. To my surprise, one day after the burial, the soil of all the three graves had sank in. The coffin had been removed. I now know that we live in a dirty environment,” she says.
Monday’s story
Monday Simpiriyo said his was a lucky survival. His wife kept dreaming about Veneranda, Africano’s wife and Angela Mary Arinaitwe, Africano’s daughter.
“I married her in April 2007 but we could not get peace. My wife was changing into something strange. She kept on shouting that Veneranda and Arinaitwe were calling her,” he said.
"My family lost four people and their bodies were removed from the grave. Africano must have eaten them. When Africano’s family was attached, Veneranda confessed that she trained her children in eating people. We found in his house clothes that my uncle, who died during that time, was buried in! What more evidence do you need?”
Face to face with Africano
When we arrived at Africano’s home in Nyabwina, he was milking his cows. Arinaitwe, the daughter who was beaten to near death when his home was attacked, was seated on the veranda with other relatives. His wife, Veneranda, invited us to enter the house but we refused. We had been advised not to.
Arinaitwe's arm was broken and her left thumb chopped off
Africano was restless and looked scared. We introduced ourselves to him saying we had come to verify allegations that his family was accused of cannibalism. He denied.
“I have lived here since 1972. These people saying I eat their dead relatives just don’t like me! I have a big land and cows …,”
We asked him about how he feels as an innocent victim of mob justice with no civil authority ready to protect or assist him but before he could finish his statement, a boy who looked about 10 years showed up with an urgent argument question for her aunt: “Aunt!” He inquired loudly, “is it true that human flesh is best with sweet potatoes?”
He was chased away by one of the women who were seated with Arinaitwe.
Africano kept quiet for a while before resuming his denial of being the cannibal. When we asked what the boy’s question meant, he asked us to leave and if we had any more questions, take them to police.
Eriya Elepot, the office in charge of Rwimi police station, said they get two cases of cannibalism every month but they have learnt not to follow them up because it wastes time.
“It is hard to get evidence for such cases because the law is silence about witchcraft and cannibals,” he said.
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Businge Rusoke Victoria, MP, Kabarole District
I condemn cannibalism but I also equally condemn mob justice. The last allegation of cannibalism in my constituency was four months ago.
Unfortunately, I was at parliament. But I was told some people accused others of cannibalism and without a trial, the suspects were evicted, property destroyed, houses erased and animals killed. There is a group of people who call themselves Abasabi, they pray for people complaining of strange illnesses.
They sometimes point out to ‘cannibals’ and the community, without investigation, acts on the suspects without proof. What hurts me is that the entire family suffers whether true or false. I want to thank the Isaazi Ly’abakuru elders who acted early and saved the suspects this last time.
The problem of cannibalism needs the collective efforts of leaders like religious leaders, the media, and masses because it is not only happening in Kabarole alone. It exists even in other parts of the country.
Abel Ngomayondi, the LC III Rwimi town council chairman
Cannibals use salt, water, food and visit people in their dreams recruiting them into the practice. They pound human fresh and mix it with salt, water and food and give it to their unsuspecting neighbours.
They then follow them with herbs to make them start dreaming and getting appetite for human fresh. I am told they do this mostly at parties or funerals. The more they are, the safer their group will be. So to get large numbers into the practice, they target parties or funerals.
Kibaale, the hub of cannibalism
Publish Date: Sep 29, 2013
Self-declared god, Dosteo Bisaka started his own religion in 1980. PHOTO/Hope Mafaranga
By Hope Mafaranga & Ismael KasoohaLast week, we ran a story about cannibalism in Uganda, focusing on Kabarole district. In a continuation of our series, this week, we focus on Kibaale district.
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Cannibalism in Kibaale is not a new word to the locals. No one expresses shock over it. “Oh, you are looking for cannibals?” A security officer at my hotel asked.
“Be careful. Some people who came before you on the same mission have disappeared!”
The elderly man said the vice has somehow, thanks to Bisaka’s religion of Obumu (The Faith of Unity). Bisaka is the self-declared god whose spiritual powers have attracted many into his Obumu.
“Bisaka’s power does not tolerate witchcraft, cannibalism, and wrong doers. In fact when he had just started preaching in early 1980s, he used to identify cannibals by just looking at them. He would then warn them to stop,” he said.
“Those who refused would face it rough. My daughter, I witnessed people die! Cannibals really saw what Bisaka was made of. That’s how cannibalism reduced in this area.”
Bisaka’s effect
Dosteo Bisaaka was a Catholic catechist till 1980 and left to start his own religion. He is now the leader of more than two million people in Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo and South Sudan. Owobusobozi Bisaka is revered and worshiped as god and generally feared by all. Even those who criticise him for calling himself god acknowledge his success in identifying and healing witches and cannibals and generally reducing their numbers in the area.
At Bisaka’s Itambiro (palace), I was received by the leaders, Omukwenda Tuhumwire and Omukwenda Turyamureba. Turyamureba said, about 50% who joined Bisaka were witchdoctors and 5%, cannibals.
“This area was really bad but Bisaka kept on teaching people to stop witchcraft and cannibalism and those that came to the Itambiro (Healing place) were saved. They are now good and developmental people in the society,” he said.
“I identify and heal cannibals and witches. I order them to repent and change them to good people. Those who refuse, I curse and they die. I will not allow any cannibal to remain in this area,” said the soft-spoken ecclesiastic whose following spreads across Toro, Bunyoro and Kigezi.
One of the reformed cannibals at Bisaka’s itambiro, who asked not to be identified, narrates: “I was bewitched into eating human flesh. Satanic medicines entered me without knowledge of what I was suffering from. Owobusobozi sent the charms out of me. I was healed instantly.”
Bisaka, the self-declared god (R), with ethics minister Fr. Simon Lokodo (L). PHOTO/Hope Mafaranga
Bisaka was the first to do mass scale healing of cannibals thereby introducing an alternative to exclusion and lynching. The healed were allowed back to their villages or stayed at Bisaka’s matambiro where he established a new moral order and transformed sinners into good people.
“Cannibals are not really responsible for their actions because they are forced into it by satan. If repented and confessed, they change.
The healing begins with a confession. I exorcize the demon and lay hands on their heads and the confessor vomits out all satanic stuff,” he explains.
Crime and withcraft
A councillor in the area, who asked to remain anonymous, said cannibalism is thick in the areas of Kenga, Buraro, Bwikara, Kyaterekera and Kamusegu.
“They exhume bodies to eat them and use the skull for witchcraft. I have witnessed this number of time,” He said.
The O/C Kagadi police station, Joseph Ayesiga, said they get more than four cases weekly. That very week, a teacher of Nyankoma primary school, identified as Irumba, was evicted by locals over allegations that he ate a neighbour’s child. His house was demolished. We arrested 15 people in connection with the case.
But the classic was about Kule Kiiza.
“On 12th May 2013, we arrested Kule Kiiza aged 39 and a Mukonjo from Kyaterekera after one Enid Korukiiko complained that he was trying to eat her.”
According to a statement I saw at the police, case number KD/SRB/501/2013, Korukiiko said rowdy gods awoke her at around 11:00pm in the night and she decided to chase them. But one dog remained to fight her. She made an alarm which attracted the neighbours. When they arrived, the dog turned into a naked man they identified as Kiiza! They grabbed him and beat him. He confessed that he had left his clothes in the bush where they found his yellow shirt and black trousers. They took Kiiza to Kyaterekera police post.
Ayesiga said Kiiza escaped the next day using witchcraft. “The policeman on duty at that post wrote in a statement that he saw a dog entering the cells and he chased it off, only realize that Kiiza was not in the cells,” Ayesiga said.
“We submitted his file to the state attorney who said there was no way a human can turn into a dog,” he explained.
Tereza lives in Kabarole district. Her banana plantantion was cut by residents who suspected her of cannibalism
The Chairman of Bwikara sub-county, Godadi Tumwebaze said about four cases are reported every week.
“In Rwentahi village, on 2nd of this month, Steven Matsiko’s wife was chased from Kibingo after she was suspected of bewitching a neighbour’s daughter into madness. I advised her to go away because people turned against her and she ignored me,” Tumwebaze said.
Tumwebaze also talked of one Joseph Kyaligonza.
“He is my neighbour in Kamusegu trading centre. I even attacked him one time and he denied. I have a petition from the residents of Kisungu who put him on last warning. They say they are also monitoring one Eriya and another Kisembo of Nyakarongo,” he said. “I have tried my best including buying one kilogram of meat monthly to the suspected families so that they can stop eating people,” he said.
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I've heard about those stories - TinkasimireBy Gloria MusiimeBuyaga County MP Barnabas Tinkasimire says: I thank Owobushobozi Bisaka who has uprooted and healed cannibals. In the mid 1980s, cannibals were feared.
Sometimes the community would arrest the suspects and take them to Police, but they would be released for lack of evidence.
I was also told such people would change into cats if they wanted to eat you. There was a man who one time turned into a cat and wanted to eat his brother.
When his brother picked a panga to chase away a cat, it turned into a human being, pleading ‘my brother, don’t kill me’.
The way forward is to issue threats against them because the Police do not help. Bisaka has helped, but those who have persisted should be forced to relocate.
Saturday Vision
Bazudde amagumba g’abaliibwa e Rakai
Abaserikale nga basimayo amagumba. Mu katono bwe gafaanana.
Baagenze okumaliriza okukung’aanya amagumba nga Mpoza ne mutabaniwe Aloyzius Kasujja 15 babatadde ku mpingu kyokka bino byonna okubeerawo ng’ate Erias Musujja abadde agambibwa okukulira ekikoosi kino ekibuzaawo abantu yeetugidde mu kaduukulu ka poliisi e Masaka okusinziira ku Nuuwa Sserunjogi, omwogezi wa poliisi mu kitundu.
Ekitongole kya Poliisi ekya Flying Squad kyenyigidde mu muyiggo ne boogeza Asafu Tumuhimbise ne Bosco Ssegirinya abaasoose okutegeeza nti balina gye baziika amagumba ate ebitundu ebimu babisuula mu kaabuyonjo era ebifo byonna Poliisi yabisimye kyokka teyazuddeyo kantu.
Okutuuka wano kyavudde ku mukazi Peace Kyomukama okubeera nga baamusala n’omwana we ow’emyezi 9 n’abulako effiire ng’ate bba Gabudyeri Bandihihi alumiriza nti abasajja bano baamusala ng’abalaba ennyama ne bagitikka ku pikipiki ne bagitwala.
Byabaddewo wiiki ewedde e Kyakilugu-Lubiimba ggombolola y’e Kyalulangira e Kibaale-Kooki mu Rakai.
OMWANA ALUMIRIZZA KITAAWE
Olwatandise okwaza ewa Mpoza ye ne yeegaana nti talina ky’amanyi ku by’okubuzaawo abantu kyokka mutabaniwe Kasujja n’agitegeeza nti kitaawe yasooka kuleeta nnyama ne bagirya n’ebayisa bubi. Omulundi ogwaddako n’abasirira emmumbwa gye baanywa ne batandika okugirya.
Omwana yategeezezza nti mu kiseera abantu bano we baabulidde era kitaawe yaleese ennyama ng’ewerako n’ayawuzaamu ne basigazaawo kyokka endala yamulagidde agisibe ku ggaali agitwalire Sengawe mwannyina wa Mpoza abeera e Kakuuto kyokka Mpoza yabyegaanyi n’ategeeza nti kirabika mutabani we yabadde atabuse omutwe.
EYEETUZE Y’ABADDE ALINA OKULUMIRIZA ABALALA
Musujja eyeetugidde mu kaduukulu ka poliisi abadde mutabani wa Segiriinya gwe balumiriza nti y’abadde anoonyeza ennyama yaabwe akatale era ne ku Kyomukama gwe baawa ennyama esinga obungi.
Ng’omulambo gwa Musujja gukyalemedde mu ggwanika e Masaka ye Tumuhimbise yannyonnyodde nti Musujja, mutabani wa Segiriinya, y’abadde atambuza ennyama era nga y’amanyi abantu b’agiguza nga ne ku mulundi guno ye yagitunze.
Ku Lwomukaaga ekiro poliisi yakyusizza Musujja okuva e Rakai okumuzza e Masaka kyokka ku makya baasanze yeetuze.
Omwogezi wa poliisi mu Greater Masaka, Nuuwa Sserunjogi yategeezezza nti omulambo gwa Musujja baagututte mu ggwanika e Masaka kyokka abooluganda tebaagala kugunonayo.
Musujja gwebabadde basuubira okubuulira poliisi abantu baabadde aguza era ng’alina okugitegeeza beyaguza ku mulundi guno ogwabakwasizza.