The family of a Ugandan man who brutally murdered his wife has been ordered to pay 8 cows as compensation to the wife’s family.
According to Ugandan media reports, the deceased family will be compensated after two months when the situation has calmed. The payment will be made in late November when the 2-month period expires.
43-year-old Christine Akello was brutally murdered by her 53-year-old husband identified as Denis Alal on Monday September 13 in Lira City, Uganda.
Residents of Lira City were left in shock when Alal trailed the mother of his five children, who was travelling on a motorcycle, and severed her head from the body in broad daylight on Monday September 13.
Abal was however by lynched by some members of the community.
The resolution was reached during a reconciliation meeting between the Arak Ongoda clan leaders where Akello was a member and Okii Bura clan, the husband’s clan.
Mr Patrick Abal, the Arak Ongoda clan chief, confirmed the development.
According to tradition, eight cows would be enough for such compensation.
Mr Abal said the two clans also agreed that the couple’s orphaned five children take care of their parent’s property.
Mr Ambrose Omara, the woman’s maternal uncle, told a Ugandan local daily that following their daughter’s murder, he also filed a murder case at Lira Central Police Station.
He said the family resolved that the couple be buried at their respective ancestral homes.
“We cannot accept the body of our daughter to be buried next to the person who gruesomely killed her. So, we shall bury her body at home on Friday,” Mr Omara said.
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