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NGO Employee Maria Nagirinya’s Self Confessed Murderer Gets 40 Years In Prison

Isaac Ssenabulya, the self-confessed murderer of former social worker Maria Nagirinya and her driver, Ronald Kitayimbwa will spend the next forty years in jail.

High Court Criminal Division Judge Isaac Muwata announced the sentence on Wednesday morning, a day after Ssenabulya pleaded guilty to the duo’s kidnap and murder in…

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