The Police in Kitagwenda District have arrested an upcoming musician who is also male councillor representing persons with disabilities, for allegedly murdering a 4-year-old child from Nyaruhanda Village in a suspected ritual sacrifice.
According to a police statement issued by the UPF Spokesperson, ACP Kituuma Rusoke today, Wednesday, 19th March, 2025, Amarakutunga Levi is suspected to have committed the heinous act on Sunday, 16th March, 2025.
Rusoke says the child went missing on March 16, 2025, after being sent to a neighbour’s house, and the body was discovered the next morning in a bush.
The police investigation involved the K-9 unit, which tracked a scent leading to Levi’s home, approximately 300 meters from the crime scene.
A suspected panga with bloodstains was also recovered about 200 meters from the body.
Further search at the suspect’s home yielded incriminating evidence, including a bucket filled with water containing clothes and blood and blood stains on the wall of one of the rooms.
