Uganda's army chief says security forces arrested Mujurizi Moses and accuses him of killing 38 people.

The number 38, and the claim that the dead were eaten, are lines in an army chief's social-media post. The Daily Mail's headline calls that author a police chief. The Ugandan papers call him chief of defence forces, and the Daily Mail's own copy then gives him that title. The Monitor says he named no victims and gave no circumstances of the arrest. ChimpReports says there is no public victim list, no forensic findings, and no public evidence of consumption. An Oct. 16 murder case the papers describe uses a different name, Fred Mujulizi, also called Kulaish Kamugisha.

The Monitor reported that Uganda's Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, wrote on X on Monday evening, Oct. 26, 2026, that security forces had arrested a man he called Mujurizi Moses. The paper quoted him: "I am glad to inform our fellow citizens that the security forces have arrested the evil Mujurizi Moses. The worst serial killer and cannibal in Uganda's history. He killed and ate 38 people between 2010 and 2025 in Masaka, Ibanda and Kazo. We will try him in public and definitely execute him." Pulse Uganda and ChimpReports carried that post and, in their own sentences, called him Moses Mujurizi. The Daily Mail, publishing Tuesday, used Mujurizi Moses and opened by saying an alleged cannibal accused of killing and eating nearly 40 people had been arrested and could be executed. The figure inside the quotation those outlets printed is 38. "Nearly 40" is the Daily Mail's opener.

The Daily Mail's headline calls the author of the post a police chief, and the story calls him Uganda's top police officer. The next sentence identifies him as General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, chief of defence forces. The Monitor, Pulse Uganda and ChimpReports call him the chief of defence forces and do not call him a police chief. Those are not the same office. The line about a public trial and a definite execution is a sentence in the post. It is not a penalty a court has imposed. The Monitor reported that he posted a photograph of a handcuffed man, and that he did not say when, where, or how the arrest happened and did not name victims. Pulse Uganda quoted a further post: "This is the face of a serial killer when he arrives in the basement. I have advise for killers in Uganda. We are coming for you." The spelling "advise" is the post's.

The name under the post is not the only name in the coverage. The Daily Mail, citing Metro and Uganda Radio Network, wrote about the man in Monday's post as the person who faced murder and human trafficking charges after a woman was killed in Greater Masaka on Sept. 28. Pulse Uganda and ChimpReports describe that Oct. 16 court date under another name. They reported that Fred Mujulizi, also called Kulaish Kamugisha, appeared before Masaka Grade One Magistrate Primer Kyomugisha alongside Huzairuh Kyambadde on murder and human trafficking charges arising from that Sept. 28 death, and that the two were remanded to Masaka Central Prison until Nov. 5. ChimpReports reported that earlier accounts identified Kamugisha as a 38-year-old moneylender in the Nyendo-Mukungwe area. The Monitor's story leaves Monday's post and continues with an older profile that also uses Fred Mujurizi, Mujulizi, and Abdul. ChimpReports reported that authorities have not publicly provided a breakdown of the alleged 38 victims, forensic findings, or evidence that the suspect consumed remains, and that the older accounts do not establish criminal responsibility or confirm the figure of 38. This story does not treat those names as one man.

Monday's post accuses Mujurizi Moses. It does not say a court has charged the man in the photograph. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.