KOMODO, Uganda — On Dec. 8, Islamic extremists in eastern Uganda set a deadly trap for a Christian policeman who had left Islam, and the next day other hard-line Muslims kidnapped three children from another convert in a nearby village, sources said.
More than 20 Muslim extremists in the Komodo area of Kadama subcounty, Kibuku District, killed officer Ismail Kuloba around 4 p.m. after he responded to an urgent call to intervene in a supposed land dispute between warring parties, an area Christian said. Kuloba was 43.
Stationed in Kagunu, Kuloba and three other policemen went to the site of the alleged dispute in nearby Komodo, but when they arrived they found no parties in conflict over land, only a group of Islamists who surrounded them, said the source, whose name is withheld for security reasons. Some in the group knew Kuloba personally and some were angry at him for leading other Muslims to Christ in the area, the source said.
“They saw that Ismail had become an apostate,” he said. “Ismail had been doing patrols in this particular village, as well as attending Dodoi Pentecostal Church, which is about [three miles] from Kagunu police post. Sometimes he made arrests in this particular village where the attack occurred.” (MS)
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