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Village Court gives man 50-strokes’ punishment for Attempting Suicide

Sophie Mutesi | UNN Times ReporterbySophie Mutesi | UNN Times Reporter
January 12, 2023
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Village Court gives man 50-strokes’ punishment for Attempting Suicide

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MBALE – Bryan Wangwe, a 24-year old resident of Bumusomi village in Namabya sub-County, Namisindwa district survived death through suicide but not the communal corporal punishment.

Wangwe whose attempt to take his own life had flopped, was sentenced to 50 thrashes – after elders termed the action as a taboo.

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Apparently Wangwe was irritated after word spread around that he had stolen a cow.

Yusuf Blenda, one of the residents, said that the area LCI court sentenced Wangwe to 50 lashes as a way of deterring others with similar motives.

According to Blenda, trouble for Wangwe started after he allegedly stole a cow from one Maresi in the neighbouring Magale sub-county – with the owners traced it to his home.

He explained that the Local Council leaders convened a meeting with the aim of counselling Wangwe – but he reportedly disliked the idea. Blenda narrated that after the meeting; Wangwe stormed his father’s house – picking up a mosquito net, which he used as a string in trying to end his life before locals came to his rescue after his father had sounded an alarm.

As a result, the LCs convened another court session – handing him to a further inhuman punishment.

The area LCI chairman, James Khaukha confirmed Wangwe’s punishment, warning youth to desist from involving themselves acts of theft, which are life threatening.

However, it should be noted that in Uganda’s penal system, corporal punishment as a sentence for crime was ruled unconstitutional in a 1999 Supreme Court ruling – Kyamanywa v Uganda, Criminal appeal No. 16 – and is prohibited in article 94 of the Children Act. It is prohibited as a disciplinary measure in penal institutions in the Prisons Act (2003).

 

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