Man beaten for calling wife Luweero claimant
Aug 15, 2003
A man who joked about his wife, saying that she behaved like a Luweero war claimant, got the shock of his life after she beat him up
By Vision Reporter
A man who joked about his wife, saying that she behaved like a Luweero war claimant, got the shock of his life after she beat him up.
Maraka, a diminutive office messenger at Makerere University and resident of Makerere Kikoni, was out sipping malwa with a group of friends recently when the drama occurred.
The group, comprising seven men, converged as early as 10:00am and started drinking to celebrate the Kabaka’s 10th coronation anniversary. By 4:00 pm, most of them were at different levels of drunkenness.
The real drama, however, started when Maraka’s wife Asio, joined the group. It turned out that she had come to ask for money to buy the day’s supper. After whispering to her husband, she also found space on a bench and began to partake of the ajon, perhaps humbly waiting for him to produce the money.
“Women think we pick money from trees. Imagine my wife is here claiming she wants money to buy meat, because it is Kabaka’s 10th Coronation anniversary.
“Asio, when will you stop acting like the Luweero war claimants camped in Wankulukuku stadium? Even when government gives them money, they keep on asking for more,†Maraka said, driving everyone into laughter.
Only Asio was not amused and she continued to plead with her husband to give her the money. Maraka refused to relent and instead offered to buy her as much muchomo (roast meat) as she wanted, provided she was willing to keep around and drink with them.
This produced more laughter and this is when Asio lost her cool. She dragged her husband by the collar, pinned him on the ground and started raining heavy blows on him. Maraka was too drunk to resist.
Friends intervened, but Maraka was already bleeding from the nose. Asio, who was determined to teach her husband a lesson for embarrassing her, ransacked the husbands pockets but only found a sh200 coin. She gave him one more punch and later left him on the ground and headed back to their home which is just a few metres away.
Maraka was finally carried home by sympathisers. But it is not clear what else befell him, having drunk all the money for the day.
A man who joked about his wife, saying that she behaved like a Luweero war claimant, got the shock of his life after she beat him up.
Maraka, a diminutive office messenger at Makerere University and resident of Makerere Kikoni, was out sipping malwa with a group of friends recently when the drama occurred.
The group, comprising seven men, converged as early as 10:00am and started drinking to celebrate the Kabaka’s 10th coronation anniversary. By 4:00 pm, most of them were at different levels of drunkenness.
The real drama, however, started when Maraka’s wife Asio, joined the group. It turned out that she had come to ask for money to buy the day’s supper. After whispering to her husband, she also found space on a bench and began to partake of the ajon, perhaps humbly waiting for him to produce the money.
“Women think we pick money from trees. Imagine my wife is here claiming she wants money to buy meat, because it is Kabaka’s 10th Coronation anniversary.
“Asio, when will you stop acting like the Luweero war claimants camped in Wankulukuku stadium? Even when government gives them money, they keep on asking for more,†Maraka said, driving everyone into laughter.
Only Asio was not amused and she continued to plead with her husband to give her the money. Maraka refused to relent and instead offered to buy her as much muchomo (roast meat) as she wanted, provided she was willing to keep around and drink with them.
This produced more laughter and this is when Asio lost her cool. She dragged her husband by the collar, pinned him on the ground and started raining heavy blows on him. Maraka was too drunk to resist.
Friends intervened, but Maraka was already bleeding from the nose. Asio, who was determined to teach her husband a lesson for embarrassing her, ransacked the husbands pockets but only found a sh200 coin. She gave him one more punch and later left him on the ground and headed back to their home which is just a few metres away.
Maraka was finally carried home by sympathisers. But it is not clear what else befell him, having drunk all the money for the day.