Murder suspect Musa Musasizi, who was arrested in connection with the murders of four of his girlfriends and a baby in the Nakulabye area of Kampala’s Rubaga Division, has been sentenced to 105 years in prison.
During the trial, the Kampala High Court was told that the 25-year-old suspect would burn the bodies of his victims after the crime.
His arrest in March of 2021 followed the deaths of five women and a three-month-old baby in Nakulabye.
His first victim was Noreen Nabirye, who was murdered on March 14, 2021 in Kampala’s akulabye outskirts.
According to Ugandan newspapers, he murdered three other women between March 12 and March 15 of the same year: Violet Kansiime, Abigail Nakitende, and Elizabeth Mutesi.
The suspect, an unemployed resident of Mujomba zone 6–a Ugandan slum–faces another case in which he was charged with the murder of Mackline Ahereza on February 22, 2021, alongside 23-year-old boda boda rider, Abdul Kasaija.
The boda boda rider was accused of assisting the suspect in dumping and burning Mackline’s body shortly after his murder.
The suspect, who pleaded guilty to the murders, told police officers that he had sex with the victims before hitting them over the head with a blunt object or strangling them.
He would later dump their bodies in Nakulabye, close to each other, and set them on fire.
He told the cops that he murdered Ahereza because he suspected her of having another boyfriend.
He also revealed that he strangled Kansiime to death, then dumped her body and strangled her three-month-old baby when he returned home.
He also told police that he strangled Mutesi, a Makerere resident, because they got into a fight after sex when she refused the Shs50,000 he offered her as transportation because it was less than she expected.
During the investigations detectives say they recovered some of the victim’s clothes stashed in a pit latrine.
