“Daily we were taught the Koran, and on some occasions we lacked food to eat,” Musitafa said. “After two years, the man who was caring for us told us that he was planning to take us outside Uganda, and this made us fearful, such that after lunch while being all alone we managed to escape from that house without knowing where we were heading to.”
Children Kidnapped by Islamists in Uganda in 2015 Are FoundFather suspects they were to be forced into foreign terrorist group.
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NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Three children kidnapped in 2015 in eastern Uganda were found in May, malnourished and showing signs of having been indoctrinated in Islam, relatives said.
Photo: Rural mosque in Uganda. (Wikipedia, Rod Waddington)
Had the children not escaped, they might have been forced into a foreign terrorist group, their father, Badiru Madengho, told Morning Star News.
“It seems the person who took my children had an intention of Islamizing them as well as wanting them to join a terrorist group,” said Madengho, a convert from Islam. “Thank God for saving my children in a miraculous way. Though the children looked miserable, sickly and confused, now with counseling they will be restored back. The God who saved them is able to restore them back to good, sound mind.”
Two boys – Musitafa Waguti, now 12, and Amuza Gessa, now 10 – along with their now 7-year-old sister, Shakira Nabukwasi, were kidnapped near their home in Kabuna 2 village in Budaka District on Dec. 9, 2015. Their father suspected Islamists kidnapped them after they came for him but found only the children, who were 10, 7 and 5 years old respectively at the time.
The children escaped on May 5.
The children did not know the identity of the kidnappers. Musitafa told Morning Star News that they were taken to a place unknown to them. The children said an elderly woman named Sawuya looked after them most of the time.
“Daily we were taught the Koran, and on some occasions we lacked food to eat,” Musitafa said. “After two years, the man who was caring for us told us that he was planning to take us outside Uganda, and this made us fearful, such that after lunch while being all alone we managed to escape from that house without knowing where we were heading to.”
An uncle, Kabala Marijaan, who lives 80 kilometers (nearly 50 miles) away from Madengho in Kadoto village, Bulangira Sub-County in Kibuku District, found them wandering in the streets of his village the same day.
Initially Marijaan did not recognize them because of their malnourished condition, the scant contact he’d had with them and their growth since then, he said. After questioning them about their birthplace and family, he realized he was their uncle. He immediately began trying to make contact their parents, which took about two weeks, as he did not have the most recent phone number of their father.
Madengho recovered the children at Marijaan’s home on May 22. He and his wife were overcome with joy to see them.
“It has been quite a long period of time looking for my children – I had given up,” Madengho told Morning Star News. “My faith in God had diminished, but thank God for sustaining my children. I am very grateful to all the Christians who have continually prayed for us and the children.”
At the time of the kidnapping, an area source said a 14-year-old boy, Karami Hassan Kabuna, who was with Madengho’s three children when they were abducted, reported that a group of Muslims from Palissa came looking for Madengho because he was a recent convert from Islam. Unable to find him, he said, they took his children instead.
Madengho said that besides counseling the children need medicines, clothes and school fees.
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another.
Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with many concentrated in the eastern part of the country.
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Photo: Rural mosque in Uganda. (Wikipedia, Rod Waddington)
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Really despicable people, one does not need much imagination to know the fate of the girl if they had not escaped
Stephen Honig
5 years ago
The true author of the Koran is Satan. Muhammad just did the dictation.
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Islam is the worst thing to have ever happened to Africa. At least Christianity’s coming helped bring modernization and industrialization…the Arab invasions, not so much.
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
“Islamist” the mendacious neologism designed to create a false dichotomy in islum — as if there is some magical, tolerant, non-violent version of the “religion of peace”.
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