Uganda Police has arrested a pastor by the name Prophet Joseph Sserubiri and his wife, Felista Namaganda.
The couple is accused of kidnapping and murdering a 4 year old for ritual sacrifice.
The suspect has been identified as
The 4-year-old victim, Nakisuyi Trinity Nabirye Zabella, whom they kidnapped on the 30.09.2021, was a daughter to their landlord, John Mulodi of Kakira market zone, Kakiira Town Council, in Jinja district. He had rented out a garage to the self-styled prophet, which they turned into a church, called Deliverance and Healing Ministries, Kakira. We have also arrested the senior pastor of Deliverance and Healing Ministry, located at Ganda, Nansana, a one Pastor Buyinza Israel Isma, who allegedly lured him into the act.
The suspect Prophet Sserubiri who had disappeared, after the incident of child kidnap, was tracked down and arrested. Together with his wife, they admitted to having murdered the 4-year-old, Nakisuyi Trinity, in the garage turned church for spiritual prowess. They slit the throat of the victim and chopped of her head, which they went and buried in the lake at Wanyange. And the headless body was buried in Kinyomo sugarcane plantation, in Kakira Town Council.
The Uganda Police has condoled with the family
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Nakisuyi Trinity. The pain and fear she must have endured at the time of the incident, are over whelming, for her age. We have recovered both the remains of the head and the headless body of the 4-year-old victim and subjected samples for DNA, to establish whether they match.
The police’s report said in part
Other exhibits of a blood stained trouser, belonging to the self-styled Prophet and other blood samples from the garage turned church were recovered as well.