Police in Kamuli are hunting for a 40 year old man identified as Bukusuba Alex for allegedly cutting his wife to death, Kasadga Michael, the Regional Spokesperson for Busoga North reveals.
According to Kasadha, deceased has been identified as Mukoda Masitula 24 , born of Mulimira village, Kasolwe Parish in Kagumba Sub-county in Kamuli district.
Kasadha details that the incident occurred at Bakusekamajja zone, Naluwoli Parish, Butansi Subcounty in Kamuli district.
“We have so far established that the deceased married Bukusuba in August last year upon divorce from the previous marriage. The two have been having issues of domestic violence up to the time the murder occured,” he said.
“Prior to the incident, the sister to the deceased advised her to temporarily leave the suspect over violence which she did.
“It was yesterday the 13/3/25 at around 10:00am that she went back to pick some of her belongings. At around 01:00pm while she was still there, the suspect rung the mother in law warning that he was going to do something bad to her.
“The mother pleaded with him to let her go back, but in vain. At around 08:00pm information started circulating that someone had been killed prompting police action.
“A team of police officers led by DPC visted the scene.The body taken to Kamuli general hospital mortuary for postmortem.
“Further investigations are ongoing to establish more facts.”We condemn the gruesome act on the deceased and appeal to the couples to always seek marital advice or legal redress where need be other than resorting to violence.”
