{"id":9914,"date":"2025-07-23T09:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=9914"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:19:56","slug":"farm-worker-arrested-for-beheading-colleague-in-nakasongola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2025\/07\/23\/farm-worker-arrested-for-beheading-colleague-in-nakasongola\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Worker Arrested for Beheading Colleague in Nakasongola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Johnson Kanyesige<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Police in Migyera Town Council, Nakasongola District, have arrested a farm worker accused of beheading a colleague and attempting to sell the head.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The suspect, identified as John Isoke, allegedly murdered Herbert Ameir, 26, a fellow worker at Kate Namugga\u2019s farm, located in Kyandigita Bujjumbura Village, Nabiswera Sub- County. The gruesome incident reportedly occurred around midnight on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Savannah Regional Police Spokesperson Sam Twiineamazima, Isoke was arrested after the farm manager, only identified as Kimeze, found him leaving the farm under suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSuspecting Isoke, Kimeze, together with other workers, pursued and found him carrying a brown polythene bag. When they confronted him, Isoke allegedly threw the bag and attempted to flee but was apprehended. The bag was found to contain a human head,\u201d Twiineamazima said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was taken to Migyera Police Station, where he reportedly confessed to beheading Ameir and planning to transport the head to Kisenyi in Kampala for sale.\u00a0Police officers visited the crime scene and recovered the headless body of the deceased, as well as a blood-stained panga believed to have been used in the attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Isoke has since been transferred to Nakasongola Central Police Station, where he is being detained on murder charges.\u00a0The body of the deceased has been taken to Nakasongola Health Centre IV mortuary for a post-mortem examination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Kanyesige Police in Migyera Town Council, Nakasongola District, have arrested a farm worker accused of beheading a colleague and attempting to sell the head. The suspect, identified as John Isoke, allegedly murdered Herbert Ameir, 26, a fellow worker at Kate Namugga\u2019s farm, located in Kyandigita Bujjumbura Village, Nabiswera Sub- County. The gruesome incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9918,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions\/9918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}