Another Pastor netted
Another self styled Pastor in Wakiso District has been nabbed for chaining 12 mentally ill believers with heavy chains under the pretext that they will be healed.
Geoffrey Ssemwogerere, pastor at New Jerusalem Church in Seguku, Wakiso district is currently locked up at Kajjansi Police Station with unlawful confinement.
Concerned locals, reported Ssemwogerere after he chained his victims inside his church for at least six weeks without adequate food and water.The victims include men, women, and children.
Two locals who peeped inside the church after hearing the voices of the victims to alerted the police.
“I don’t know how these people were brought into this church accepted to be chained. Unfortunately, I don’t know any of them. I suspect they were picked from different places,” Lukanda, a local stated
Detectives at Kajjansi asked Ssemwogerere why he was chaining people but he remained mute. They also asked him to reveal where he kept Mukasa’s land title, phones, and cash but he remained adamant.
Another Pastor netted
“If you think you are a hard person wait we will make you speak. We are still politely asking you but wait until we apply the interrogation tactics. I am sure you will speak up. You can’t commit such crimes and you become stubborn,” a detective warned Ssemwogerere.
By the time of filing this story, Kajjansi police requested Kampala Metropolitan Headquarters to find police counselors to provide psycho-social support to the victims who had been chained like dogs.
Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, said Ssemwogerere will be charged with unlawful confinement.
He urged the public to always inform any nearby authorities including local leaders once they notice things that are criminal in nature happening.
Onyango says that if residents of Seguku where the church is located had acted faster from the time they became suspicious, the victim wouldn’t have suffered to that extent.
The Kajjansi incident comes three weeks after police arrested Prophet Denis Kintu from Hoima City for whipping his followers. He was charged with over 10 counts relating to torture.
Another Pastor netted
