Did Mwerinde Kill Other Kanungu Cult Leaders?
Kampala – New reports have emerged indicating that Sister Cledonia Mwerinde, a co-architect of the Kanungu cult deaths in Uganda in March, may have killed cult leaders Joseph Kibwetere and Dominica Kataribaabo and then fled. Initially, the Uganda government was under the impression that all three had escaped after masterminding the deaths of more than 1,000 cult members on March 17, and had launched an international hunt which is yet to yield any results. However, new evidence gathered by the Britain’s Channel 4 Television, based on testimony of surviving members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments and other Kanungu residents, indicates that Mwerinde escaped alone in a vehicle, in the early hours of March 17 – the day some 500 cult members were incinerated in a church building. The cult’s survivors say Mwerinde sold off cult property without the knowledge of the two other leaders, Kataribaabo and Kibwetere, whom she could have duped to their deaths in the fire.
