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Conviction Nigerian juju (trafficking) Juju and oath systems Masaka, Uganda · 2021

Uganda: businessman's life sentence for a child's ritual killing upheld by the Supreme Court

Record class

Context only

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

a witchdoctor and his wife, engaged to perform the killing, the businessman who commissioned it

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

NOT AN AUTHORITY-ABUSE CASE toward the child, who was a stranger. Recorded as victim-directed ritual — and as the pattern the corpus most wants documented, where a client's belief in a witchdoctor's power converts into a commissioned killing.

  • Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim
  • Violent occult ideology or sacrifice

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2021-11-01 · conviction; final appeal dismissed

    High Court of Uganda; Court of Appeal (2014); Supreme Court of Uganda (2021). Kato Kajubi, a Masaka businessman, was convicted of the murder of twelve-year-old Joseph Kasirye, who was decapitated and mutilated in a ritual said to prosper Kajubi's real-estate business. He was sentenced to life imprisonment; the Court of Appeal upheld the conviction in 2014 and the Supreme Court of Uganda dismissed his final appeal in November 2021. The witchdoctor Umar Kateregga and his wife Mariam Nabukeera were tried separately.

Appellate history

  1. 2021-11 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • a child killed and mutilated in a 'cleansing' ritual said to prosper a business

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting final appellate disposition Daily Monitor: 'Supreme Court upholds businessman Kato Kajubi's life sentence'.

National paper of record's report of the final appellate outcome.

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