By Babatunde Solanke
An Israeli citizen named Raed Wated has been detained by Ugandan police authourities after confessing that he killed his wife because he discovered her alleged infidelity when a DNA test allegedly showed he is not the father of their 6-month-old daughter.
Confirming the incident on yesterday, the Katonga Regional Police commander, Dauda Hirigi Were, 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,” Were said.
Police in Mpigi District arrested Wated, 58 last Sunday on suspicion of murdering his wife, Monica Nabukenya, 26.
He then led investigators to a septic pit where his wife’s decomposing corpse 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 has 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 dec0mposed 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.