An imam who threatened a convert from Islam in eastern Uganda has been arrested in connection with the killing of a 28-year-old Christian.
Laurence Maiso’s body was found at his house Jan. 27 around 5 p.m. in Numuseru village, Naboa Sub-County in Budaka District.
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.”
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. The next day Hussein was arrested. Police were still looking for other suspects at press time.
(MS)
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