Mubende headteacher threatens ex-wife with blood

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | A mother of four has camped at Mubende Police Station and vowed not to leave until a dispute with the man who sired her children is resolved.

Ms Sharon Asiimwe, a resident of Kuminamukaaga Village in Kigando Subcounty, accuses Mr Didas Twine, the headteacher of Kacungwa Primary School, of threatening her life after deprived her and the children of sustenance.

Part of her evidence of the threatening messages is contained in a WhatsApp screen grab she presented to police in which Twine allegedly warns that "next time you will see blood on your body".

Ms Asiimwe told Police that Twine had five acres of land and bequeathed to her 1.5 acres on which she planted coffee and bananas to look after her children.

However, after marrying another wife, Twine has ordered her off that piece of land too.

"My last born was sick and I decided to pick coffee to get money for the treatment but when the husband found me, he brutalised me and threatened to kill me saying that I stop using the land he gave me," she said.

Ms Asiimwe opened up a case at Mubende Central Police Station under Children and Family and Protection Unit.

However, when Police summoned Twine for mediation, he promised to bear all the responsibilities as a father.

"My husband was so humble at police and he even promised to construct a house for the children, but when he got out, he told me that he would do nothing for me," she said.

The complainant shared with the Nile Post her April 17 communication with Twine via social messaging site, WhatsApp in which Twine responds to a greeting and thank you message with a rude threat.

"Stop that familiarity on my property," the text message reads. "Is it a punishment to produce with you? I want to deal with you openly. Thank God you had a kid on your back, next time you will see blood from your body."

Ms Asiimwe ran back to the police where she has been camping for the last two days.

"I have decided to come here to the police to seek help because my husband wants to kill me. I have nowhere to go with the four children because the land I have been using to earn a living has become a burden to me," she said.

Twine said he divorced with Asiimwe in 2018 and gave her a piece of land to till and feed the children.

"When I gave her the land, she misused it and when I planted coffee on that land during COVID-19 lockdown, she was against it and now she want to reap what she didn't sow," Twine says.

He insisted that he did not fail in his responsibility of looking after his family but that the ex-wife "wants to complicate everything aiming at material gains".

"She has decided to run to police after seeing the coffee plantation yielding," he said.

"when we were at Police, we resolved the matter on April 22 and it's only two weeks weeks she is complaining. Let her give me my children because I am ready to take care of them."

Wamala Region Police spokesperson Rachael Kawala says Police are following up on the matter and that a file has been sent to the state attorney for guidance.

"Police is working tirelessly to resolve the matter we had a dialogue on April 22 and Twine vowed to take his responsibilities as a man but we received a concern from Asiimwe accusing him of chasing her from the land he had given her," Kawala said.