 In response, Musinga asked the German colonisers for help defeating Muhumusa's movement.The Germans arrested her in 1908 for 'witchcraft' and imprisoned her in Bukoba until her escape in 1911.Once again, she fled north where she began rallying her supporters, but this time in defiance of the German and British colonisers who were laying claim to the region, in collaboration with an umutwa leader named Basebya.