Ugandan police are detaining a Israeli national after it was claimed that he killed his wife and concealed her body parts in a septic tank.
Police claim that on July 16, 2023, Waeed Taheed, a resident of Mpigi District, reported the disappearance of his wife, Monica Nabukenya, 25, for the first time.
Taheed reportedly took their 6-month-old child for a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test because he thought Nabukenya was unfaithful.
“Taheed decided to take the child for a DNA test, and it so happened that the results turned negative,” a police statement reads in part.
When he returned home and after some confrontations, police say he decided to kill his wife and dump her body in a septic tank in their compound and partially covered the corpse with soil.
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“In the process of interrogation, police asked the suspect to take them to his home. On their arrival, they were hit by a stench of a decomposing body which was found it in a septic tank after a search. After questioning, Taheed admitted killing his wife because of the negative DNA test results,” the police statement adds.
The couple had been leading a secluded life, according to Mr. Richard Ddumba, the chairperson of Kalagala Village, Kayabwe Town Council, until he recently learned that they had a dispute over the father of a six-month-old child.
“What I know is the couple had only one baby and 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.
Ddumba said a distressed Taheed approached him four months ago saying he was pushing for a divorce.
It is alleged that Taheed filed a divorce case, but court was yet to pronounce itself on the matter when the murder happened.
“As he was pushing to secure divorce through court, I got shocked to learn that he had allegedly killed the wife already,” he said.
Ddumba claimed that Taheed had the option of killing the wife on either Thursday or Friday of last week.
