| PHOTO: | Streets of Kampala, Uganda Photo:Courtesy |
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By:
Annet Kasiima
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Oct,18-2016 13:27:09
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There is this running joke in Uganda that wives, unlike husbands, by their very nature, have suppressed murderous intents. Reportedly, the richer a man becomes, the more these murderous intents get activated in his wife.
Doubting? When was the last time you heard a man killed his rich wife so that he can inherit her property? But how wives get away with such murders has always left many a baffled lot.
Nothing exemplifies this joke that numerous cases we have witnessed in the recent past. Just the other day for instance, a ruling in a high profile murder case was last week delivered by the high court in Kampala and it really ended on an interesting note.
There was this popular tycoon--popular because he was a music promoter--nicknamed Kasiwukira, which was a name to his music label, who was deviously murdered one morning as he jogged in the upscale suburb of Muyenga by a deliberate hit and run car.
Partly because he was a rich man, police swung into action and in a couple of weeks, key suspects were arrested, led by the wife of the deceased with her sister and a local police officer.
The widow hired herself the best lawyer money could buy in Kampala. Actually, she enlisted the services of a former Director of Public Prosecution. Almost two years to the day after Kasiwukira was killed, she was pronounced innocent and released.
Her sister and the local cop were found guilty of the murder and sentenced to 22 years each in prison. The public was left debating the case, almost everyone sounding like an expert in criminal law. Ugandan know--it-all expressed their shock, with some explaining why the widow was found innocent yet her sister with whom they used to do almost everything, was guilty of the murder. Interesting world, where a woman has a motive to murder her sister's husband.
Sarah Nabikolo suspected to have killed her husband
About a year earlier, another widow was not so lucky. She was found guilty of committing a very creative murder of her husband. The youngish widow to another extremely wealthy Kampala businessman returned home in the small hours of the morning and the husband himself opened for her. She accelerated and knocked him dead, or according to prosecution, ensured that she run him over until he could not survive.
Since those two deaths, Kampala's poor men have been justifying their poverty as a necessary insurance against being killed. They claim that it is dangerous to be rich and married. As in the case of the late Nsenga who was run down in his own compound, your wife, as locals now believe, will murder you.
Or like the late Kasiwukira, your wife's sister will murder you. So if you are approaching advanced age and people start asking why you still haven't made it economically, you now have a perfect excuse--you would rather stay alive. At least in Uganda.
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