Kamuli Man Loses Hand After Catching Wife with Neighbour

(Kamuli) – Kamuli, the land of rice fields and sugarcane is a place where neighbors know every detail of each other’s lives, Siraji Nsadha’s Tuesday morning was nothing short of a bad episode from a local drama. The 40 year old man from Bumbya-Bulungu zone, Namasagali, thought he was returning home from the rice garden for a quick rest. Instead, he walked straight into a scandal worthy of a Bukedde TV special—one involving his wife, his neighbour, a chapati, and a missing hand.
Nsadha stormed into his house at 10:30 a.m. only to find his wife absent and their child munching on a chapatti that, it turns out, was not even bought for him. With the innocent honesty of a child, she pointed straight to the neighbour’s house. And as any husband might in a village full of gossip and suspicion, Nsadha grabbed his trusted panga (machete) and charged towards his neighbor, Moses Magumba’s home. What he found was worse than any soap opera—his wife and Magumba, were in mid romance, singing tunes she had apparently never sung for him.
In a moment of sheer rage, Nsadha swung the panga at Magumba, but fate, or perhaps the durability of Ugandan mosquito nets, intervened. His panga got stuck in the net, missing Magumba’s back. What followed next could only be described as a chaotic village wrestling match. Unfortunately for Nsadha, he wasn’t the victor. Magumba, possibly fueled by adrenaline or sheer panic, wrestled the panga from Nsadha and— in a move straight out of an action film—chopped off his hand. Instead of inflicting harm on the man snatching his wife, Nsadha left the scene of the crime with one less limb.
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As Nsadha lay on his hospital bed at Kamuli Mission Hospital, the pain from his severed hand was probably second only to the heartache of betrayal. “For a year now, my wife denied me sex,” Nsadha lamented, explaining how their marriage had been on a downward spiral since his wife began feigning abdominal pain—a condition that everyone in Uganda refers to as enseke (an ailment as mysterious as the location of missing change after shopping). Little did he know, the real pain in the abdomen might have been Magumba’s newfound romance.
Nsadha’s dramatic alarm cry, sounding like a call for help straight from a Nollywood movie, quickly gathered the neighbors. With the kind of efficiency you only see in village rescues, they rushed Nsadha to the hospital while others hunted down the now infamous Magumba. Magumba, probably realizing the gravity of his act (and possibly contemplating his future as a hand chopper), fled to a nearby sugarcane plantation. But it was not long before the village amateur detectives tracked him down and handed him over to the Namasagali Police.
Busoga North Police spokesperson Michael Kasadha confirmed the incident, expressing his concern over the escalating cases of domestic violence in the region. “It is like everyone’s watching too many telenovelas these days,” he might have said if he wasn’t being so formal. Kasadha explained that infidelity, spouse injuries, and wives battering husbands have all become far too common. “I mean, what happened to just talking things out over a pot of Malwa?”
Kasadha’s lament about domestic violence is far from isolated. As more and more stories like Nsadha’s emerge—whether it’s a wife who won’t cook because of a quarrel or a husband caught sneaking into the neighbor’s house—Ugandans are reminded that the bonds of marriage, much like the panga, can sometimes be wielded with dangerous force.
Nsadha, in his hospital bed, didn’t hold back on his revelations. His marriage, he said, had been on the rocks for a while, especially since his wife started dodging her conjugal duties with various excuses, including the ever popular enseke. As far as Nsadha is concerned, the evidence of infidelity was overwhelming, and the hand chopping incident marks the definite end of their marriage.
As for Nsadha’s wife, she has disappeared without a trace—likely to avoid the inevitable village shaming that comes when news of this magnitude hits the gossip circuit. And if there’s one thing Ugandans love more than their local market days, it is a juicy story about scandal, betrayal, and, of course, the occasional panga fight.
This latest domestic drama is a reminder that while love may be blind, it is always wise to leave the panga at home—unless you want to end up at the hospital with one less hand.