An Israeli citizen has been arrested in Uganda after confessing to police that he killed his wife because he discovered her alleged infidelity when a DNA test showed he is not the father of their 6-month-old daughter.
Police in Mpigi District
arrested Raed Wated,58, on Sunday, July 16, 2023, on suspicion of murdering his
wife, Monica Nabukenya, 26.
He reportedly led investigators
to a septic pit where his wife’s decomposing body was found after relatives alerted
police about her disappearance.
Police had to break open metal
bars that had been wielded over the opening of the pit.
Ugandan media cited police and
officials in the Kalagala Village where Wated lived as saying the couple had a
falling out over his suspicions that Nabukenya had been unfaithful.
This prompted him to take their
daughter for a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test.
"Wated decided to take the
child for a DNA test and it so happened that the results turned negative,” a
police statement reads in part.
The DNA test revealed that
Wated was not the biological father of the child. The couple also have a 5 year
old child.
When he returned home and after
some confrontations, he decided to kill his wife and dump her body in a septic
tank in their compound and partially covered the corpse with soil.
In the process of
interrogation, detectives at Kayabwe Police Station asked the suspect to take
them to his home. On their arrival, they were hit by a stench of a decomposed
body. They searched and found it in a septic tank. After questioning, He
admitted killing his wife because of the negative DNA test results," the
police statement read.
Confirming the incident on
Wednesday, July 19, Dauda Hirigi Were, the Katonga Regional Police commander,
said the suspect reconstructed the murder for investigators.
"He confessed that he
killed the wife because what she did — to sire a child with another man — is an
abomination in their culture,” he said.
Nabukenya, who operated a
village supermarket, had moved out of their shared home because of their
quarrel but returned for a visit last Thursday with the girl, reportedly at the
request of Wated, who had told her he wanted to reconcile with her.
Her family became concerned
when they did not hear from Nabukenya for three days. Though Wated reportedly
told them that she had left for Kampala to buy supplies, they contacted police,
who arrived at the compound where he lives.
Nabukenya’s sister Royce Nayiga
was with police when they entered the compound and “a foul smell welcomed us,”
she told the outlet.
“It is at this point that the
man revealed to detectives that he had actually killed my sister after a DNA
test proved that he is not the biological father of the baby girl,” Nayiga
said.
"We thought they would
resolve their issues as a wife and husband but we were shocked to receive
information that he had killed her,” she said.
Richard Ddumba, the chairperson
of Kalagala Village, Kayabwe Town Council, said Wated had spoken to him four
months ago about wanting a divorce.
"What I know is, the
couple had only one baby. When the man received rumours that the baby belonged
to another man, he took the child for a DNA test, which proved that he is not
the real father,” he said, according to the Monitor report.
Stephen Mwogezi, the village
defense secretary, said Wated became a resident of Uganda a decade ago after
buying a plot of land where he built a house.
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