Muslims and leaders demand proof as link to ADF claims another cleric’s life
Relatives and friends of Sheikh Ibrahim Hassan Kirya pray at his funeral in Kampala. Latest killing brings to 12 number of clerics’ deaths, yet police have no answers. PHOTO | FAISWAL KASIRYE
The killing of yet another top Muslim cleric has heightened a sense of hopelessness about the continued failure by the state to explain a string of murders that have targeted Muslim leaders in Uganda.
Sheikh Ibrahim Hassan Kirya became the 12th Muslim cleric to be murdered since 2012 by killers who brazenly take out their targets and get away on the ubiquitous motorcycle taxis commonly known as boda boda.
