Local police say Raed Wated, 58, confessed to killing Monica Nabukenya, 25, because DNA tests showed he was not the father of their six-month-old baby.
An Israeli citizen has been arrested in Uganda after confessing to police that he killed his wife. He discovered her apparent infidelity when a DNA test showed he was not the father of their daughter, local media reported Tuesday.
Police in Mpigi District arrested Raed Wated, 58, on Sunday on suspicion of murdering his wife, Monica Nabukenya, 25.
He reportedly led investigators to a septic pit, where his wife’s decomposing body was found. This was after relatives alerted police to her disappearance. Police had to break open metal bars that had been placed over the pit opening, reports said.
The Foreign Ministry said it knew the situation, according to the Walla news site. Wated reportedly worked for a subsidiary of Israel’s Solel Boneh construction and civil engineering firm.
Ugandan media cited police and officials in Kalagala Village, where Wated lived, as saying the couple fell out. This was over his suspicions that Nabukenya had been unfaithful.
A DNA test revealed that Wated was not the biological father of their six-month-old daughter. According to Hebrew media reports, the couple also has a boy, aged five, though Ugandan reports only mention the baby girl.
“Wated decided to take the child for a DNA test, and the results turned negative,” police said in a statement reported by Monitor, a Ugandan news outlet.
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 father a child with another man—was an abomination in their culture,” he said.
Nabukenya, who operated a village supermarket, moved out of their shared home because of their quarrel. However, she returned last Thursday with the girl. This was reportedly at Wated's request; who 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 the police. They arrived at his compound.
The deceased Monica Nabukenya
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. A DNA test proved that he was 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 a divorce.
“What I know for sure is that the couple had only one baby. When the man received rumors that the baby belonged to another man, he took the child for a DNA test, which proved that he was 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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