Court in Kasese presided over by Magistrate Betty Ajok has remanded Hajji Abdul Kasita, a renowned traditional herbalist to Mubuku government prison for alleged murder.
The Magistrate didn’t read the charges against him because of the absence of a Luganda language translator.
The prosecution alleges that on August 8, 2024, while at Kogere in Rukooki Ward of Nyamwamba Division in Kasese Municipality with malice aforethought, Kasita caused the death of Catherine Kabugho, aged 10 and Caroline Mbambu, aged 8.Â
The two were Kasita’s stepdaughters. It was reported that Kasita offered the two children a chapatti which they ate and developed complications. They were rushed to Mt. St. Mary’s Hospital for treatment from where they died.
A postmortem report indicated that the children died as a result of eating chapattis laced with poison.
The suspect was remanded until September 4 as court search for an interpreter for mention of his case.
