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Buhweju, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Emmanuel Sabiiti, former lecturer at Makerere University has been arrested for allegedly hacking his daughters to death and injuring another.
He was picked up from his hideout in Rujenje village, Buhweju district. Sabiiti, a resident of Kabutsye village is wanted for hacking to death his 6-year-old daughter Kendo Kukunda and Lilian Ainembabazi, and seriously injuring 16-year-old Kalisa Sabiti over the weekend.
Kalisa is still in critical condition at Mayanja Memorial hospital in Mbarara city. Martial Tumusiime, the Greater Bushenyi police spokesperson says that they managed to track Sabiiti through his phone and also received a call from a concerned citizen in Buhweju.
According to Tumusiime, preliminary information shows that the former lecturer of languages at Makerere University killed the duo following a misunderstanding with their mother on allegations that one of the children wasn’t his biological daughter.
He says that Sabiti rejected a case in May last year and they advised to subject the children to DNA tests to establish their parentage. Sabiti’s wife, Lydia Bagonza, says that the suspect at one point wanted to kill her but she was saved by the residents.
David Kakuru, the LCI chairperson of Kabutsye village, says Sabiiti had opened a bar in the area called Mombasa and was always ranting about his family issues with the leaders, which they referred to the Probation Officer.
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Too bad. This man taught me Swahili at Makerere University. I couldn’t imagine he was capable of doing that, despite the misunderstanding in the family.
This man taught me kiswahili and even gave me a kiswahili dictionary
There is a deeper problem here:
The community had played their role
The probation office did their part
That is why there is a need for community psychologists
Did anybody find it strange that a gentleman of that status chose to disclose his private life to the public?
We’re there other behaviour changes?
Did society realise that the gentle man needed help?
Why should an educated person refuse a DNA test?
It goes back to the way a male has been raised in our society
He should not be seen “to be weak”
Did the lady say she had opted out(TV story)
So why not dissolve this arrangement?