{UAH} Imam Arrested in Killing of Christian Convert in Eastern Uganda

Imam Arrested in Killing of Christian Convert in Eastern Uganda

By Michael Ireland, ASSIST News Service On February 11, 2016

Morning Star News

The body of Laurence Maiso

According to the East Africa Correspondent for Morning Star News (www.morningstarnews.org) Laurence Maiso's body was found at his house, his head in a pool of blood, on Jan. 27 at around 5 p.m. in Numuseru village, Naboa Sub-County in Budaka District.

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Four days earlier, Imam Kamulali Hussein had met him and his wife on a local road. According to Maiso's wife, the imam told him, "You have refused to join us. Do you know that Allah does not want us to have a kafir [infidel] neighbor? And you should know that Allah is about to send to you the Angel of Death in your house. Please prepare to meet him at any time."

Four days later, Maiso's wife went to see a friend in nearby Lupada village. She returned to find her husband dead on the floor. Her cries brought several neighbors to the house.

Morning Star News reports that police rushed to the site, and the next day they arrested Hussein, well-known in the area and dubbed "the malaria of Christianity," at Nampangalle village. The case is registered at Naboa police post with a reference number of CRB Ref: 28/2016.

"We found the villagers at the scene of the incident, and immediately we removed the body from the house and took it to the police station, then to the mortuary in Budaka," said a police officer who requested his name be withheld. "The following day we carried out an intensive search, and from a lead from a villager we managed to arrest Hussein at Nampangalle village. We took him to Chief Magistrate Three at Kalaki court, and he was later remanded to Kamuge prison in Palissa District."

Morning Star News reports the officer said police were still looking for other suspects as they interrogated Hussein.

According to Morning Star News, Maiso lived in a predominantly Muslim area. On several occasions Muslims had confronted him, demanding that he recant his Christian faith, but he remained firm and continued as a member of the Naboa Church of Uganda.

A neighbor told Morning Star News that on the day of the murder, Jan. 27, she saw eight men including Hussein, coming out of Maiso's house at 4 p.m., and that some of them were dressed in traditional Islamic attire. Another neighbor said he spotted Hussein's uncle and other Muslims in the area around the same time.

Monring Star News explained the killing is the latest in a series of attacks on Christians in eastern Uganda.

Morning Star News stated that about 85 percent of the people in Uganda are Christian and 11 percent Muslim, with some eastern areas having large Muslim populations. The country's constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one's faith and convert from one faith to another.

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