Ritual murder cases hit snag, Police lose morale

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Several high profile ritual murder cases have either been shelved by the courts or dragged on long enough to offer suspects a window of opportunity to escape justice, The Observer has learnt.
Moses Binoga, commander of the anti-human sacrifice and trafficking task force, said in an interview on Monday that Police have successfully investigated many of the murders and files forwarded to the courts, but many of those cases have been shelved.
Once prosecution is too slow, Binoga says, a lot of things can happen. “In some of these cases witnesses die before the case is concluded, some of them change their minds and become hostile, others migrate,” he explained.
“So by the time you look for them, they are not there and cases end up failing. We are not happy about it and we have requested the Judiciary to take some of these cases as priority so that they are heard first.”
The Police have now compiled a list of “extreme cases of child abuse” that have been shelved or stalled.

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