An Israeli national, Raed Wated, 58, has been arrested by the Ugandan police for murdering his wife, Monica Nabukenya, 26, after a DNA test showed he was not the father of their daughter.
Ugandan media reported on Thursday that the police in Mpigi District arrested Wated on Sunday in the Kalagala Village where he had lived for over a decade.
According to media reports, the DNA test revealed that Wated was not the biological father of their six-month-old daughter after he took the child for the test when he heard rumours that his wife had been cheating on him.
“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,” one report said.
“After he was arrested, he reportedly led investigators to a septic pit where his wife’s decomposing body was found after relatives alerted police to her disappearance. Police had to break open metal bars that had been wielded over the opening of the pit.
“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, 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,” the reports said.
A police statement confirming the incident said:
“Wated decided to take the child for a DNA test and it so happened that the results turned negative.
“The DNA test revealed that Wated was not the biological father of the child. The couple also have a 5-year-old child.
”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.
“He confessed that he killed the wife because what she did — to sire a child with another man — is an abomination in their culture,” the police statement issued by Dauda Hirigi Were, the Katonga Regional Police commander, said.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry, in a statement, said it was aware of the situation that one of its citizens who worked for a subsidiary of Israel’s Solel Boneh construction and civil engineering firm, has been arrested for murder in the African country.