Wife beats husband into coma
SSALONGO Nsubuga Mukasa, 60, has been admitted to Naggalama Hospital for over a week, after his wife Esther Nambi, 45 battered him.
By Henry Nsubuga
and john semakula
SSALONGO Nsubuga Mukasa, 60, has been admitted to Naggalama Hospital for over a week, after his wife Esther Nambi, 45 battered him.
Hospital authorities say he complained of severe abdominal pain last week. His wife had kicked him in the stomach and private parts. The two live in Wantoni in Mukono Municipality.
Ironically, the wife who beat him into a coma, is the one looking after him. When the matter was reported to the Police, Nambi tried to run away, but Mukasa’s relatives stopped her.
Mukasa’s sister, Gladys Namirembe from Namawojjolo, Mukono, who was at the hospital, said Nambi has turned husband battering into a habit. “The whole of their neighbourhood knows it. But my brother never pursues the matter,†she said.
“You almost killed me!†Mukasa moans. “Now where are we going to get money for that operation at Mulago Hospital?â€
Doctors at Naggalama operated upon Mukasa to treat intestinal torsion, but thereafter, referred him to Mulago for another operation, saying there was a complication that could not be handled at the hospital.
Apparently, the kick twisted Mukasa’s intestines. He says the mother of his 11- year-old twins has beaten him on many occasions, but it was not something he wanted to discuss in public. “She beats me whenever she takes alcohol. She comes home very late and when I open the door for her, she starts with the blows.
Of course, I try to fight back, but she overpowers me and I cannot do anything to her. She always accused me of being old and poor,†he narrates.
He adds that when she is sober, she is different. “I asked her to leave, but she said she could not, because she loved me and that only death could seperate us.†And it will if she keeps the beatings.
According to Namirembe, one day, Mukasa’s mother, Josephine Ssekkonde, decided to intervene. She stormed her son’s home and threw out Nambi’s property.
But one month later, when the mother had returned home, Nambi came back, pleading and promising that she had repented and was now Born-again.
Mukasa accepted her back, but two weeks later, she returned to drinking and beating him.
Nambi says she is not as bad as portrayed. “I may have beaten him a few times, but I always nurse and massage him and no one would know. But this time, things went wrong. I am sorry. I will stop drinking and I will never do it again.â€
Dr. John Mukiibi, who carried out the operation, says the couple needs counselling and the hospital was organising a session for them.
Mukiibi says the two have been in that situation for a long time and that the hospital wants to help them sort it out before discharging them.
CASES OF HOMICIDE
Nalugo vs Kajubi
Yurita Nalugo, 46, a resident of Nantabuulirirwa in Mukono Municipality, is alleged to have strangled her husband, Steven Kajubi, 53.
Kajubi suspected Nalugo of infidelity. When they quarreled about it, he forbade her from talking to the man he suspected was her lover.
On the fateful afternoon, August 23, 2009, Kajubi found Nalugo talking to the man, who ran away, leaving Kajubi seething with anger. He beat her up severely and she was admitted to a nearby clinic for treatment.
After she was discharged, Nalugo decided to revenge. That very day, he came home drunk and she waited for him to sleep. She then tied a rope around his neck and strangled him.
She allegedly hanged Kajubi’s body on the roof rafter in the sitting room and, early in the morning, made an alarm, which attracted her neighbours.
According to CID officers, she made up a story that she had woken up to find her beloved husband missing from their marital bed and as she walked out of the bedroom, she found him hanging from the rope.
But CID officers were not convinced. The rope around Kajubi’s neck couldn’t have strangled him. They said his neck was intact and his feet were touching the ground. She was arrested and remanded in Luzira Prison, where she awaiting High Court session to hear her case.
Halayi vs Kemo
On March 5, 2009, Henry Kemo, 24, a bodaboda cyclist at Gwaffu Stage in Seeta town, Mukono municipality, was also reportedly murdered by his wife Jetita Halayi, 22, on suspicion that he was having an affair with another woman.
One of Halayi’s friends saw Kemo with another woman at a pub and dashed to report the matter to her.
A furious Halayi picked a knife and ran to the bar, only to find her husband with other men.
When someone told her that the woman had just left, she pounced on her husband and dragged him from his seat.
Humiliated before fellow men, Kemo slapped her. She pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the neck.
Halayi then reportedly attempted to commit suicide, but LC officials and the Police intervened. She has since been remanded in Luzira Prison.
and john semakula
SSALONGO Nsubuga Mukasa, 60, has been admitted to Naggalama Hospital for over a week, after his wife Esther Nambi, 45 battered him.
Hospital authorities say he complained of severe abdominal pain last week. His wife had kicked him in the stomach and private parts. The two live in Wantoni in Mukono Municipality.
Ironically, the wife who beat him into a coma, is the one looking after him. When the matter was reported to the Police, Nambi tried to run away, but Mukasa’s relatives stopped her.
Mukasa’s sister, Gladys Namirembe from Namawojjolo, Mukono, who was at the hospital, said Nambi has turned husband battering into a habit. “The whole of their neighbourhood knows it. But my brother never pursues the matter,†she said.
“You almost killed me!†Mukasa moans. “Now where are we going to get money for that operation at Mulago Hospital?â€
Doctors at Naggalama operated upon Mukasa to treat intestinal torsion, but thereafter, referred him to Mulago for another operation, saying there was a complication that could not be handled at the hospital.
Apparently, the kick twisted Mukasa’s intestines. He says the mother of his 11- year-old twins has beaten him on many occasions, but it was not something he wanted to discuss in public. “She beats me whenever she takes alcohol. She comes home very late and when I open the door for her, she starts with the blows.
Of course, I try to fight back, but she overpowers me and I cannot do anything to her. She always accused me of being old and poor,†he narrates.
He adds that when she is sober, she is different. “I asked her to leave, but she said she could not, because she loved me and that only death could seperate us.†And it will if she keeps the beatings.
According to Namirembe, one day, Mukasa’s mother, Josephine Ssekkonde, decided to intervene. She stormed her son’s home and threw out Nambi’s property.
But one month later, when the mother had returned home, Nambi came back, pleading and promising that she had repented and was now Born-again.
Mukasa accepted her back, but two weeks later, she returned to drinking and beating him.
Nambi says she is not as bad as portrayed. “I may have beaten him a few times, but I always nurse and massage him and no one would know. But this time, things went wrong. I am sorry. I will stop drinking and I will never do it again.â€
Dr. John Mukiibi, who carried out the operation, says the couple needs counselling and the hospital was organising a session for them.
Mukiibi says the two have been in that situation for a long time and that the hospital wants to help them sort it out before discharging them.
CASES OF HOMICIDE
Nalugo vs Kajubi
Yurita Nalugo, 46, a resident of Nantabuulirirwa in Mukono Municipality, is alleged to have strangled her husband, Steven Kajubi, 53.
Kajubi suspected Nalugo of infidelity. When they quarreled about it, he forbade her from talking to the man he suspected was her lover.
On the fateful afternoon, August 23, 2009, Kajubi found Nalugo talking to the man, who ran away, leaving Kajubi seething with anger. He beat her up severely and she was admitted to a nearby clinic for treatment.
After she was discharged, Nalugo decided to revenge. That very day, he came home drunk and she waited for him to sleep. She then tied a rope around his neck and strangled him.
She allegedly hanged Kajubi’s body on the roof rafter in the sitting room and, early in the morning, made an alarm, which attracted her neighbours.
According to CID officers, she made up a story that she had woken up to find her beloved husband missing from their marital bed and as she walked out of the bedroom, she found him hanging from the rope.
But CID officers were not convinced. The rope around Kajubi’s neck couldn’t have strangled him. They said his neck was intact and his feet were touching the ground. She was arrested and remanded in Luzira Prison, where she awaiting High Court session to hear her case.
Halayi vs Kemo
On March 5, 2009, Henry Kemo, 24, a bodaboda cyclist at Gwaffu Stage in Seeta town, Mukono municipality, was also reportedly murdered by his wife Jetita Halayi, 22, on suspicion that he was having an affair with another woman.
One of Halayi’s friends saw Kemo with another woman at a pub and dashed to report the matter to her.
A furious Halayi picked a knife and ran to the bar, only to find her husband with other men.
When someone told her that the woman had just left, she pounced on her husband and dragged him from his seat.
Humiliated before fellow men, Kemo slapped her. She pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the neck.
Halayi then reportedly attempted to commit suicide, but LC officials and the Police intervened. She has since been remanded in Luzira Prison.