Ugandan Minister Urges Men To Stop Going For DNA Tests After Death: "Not Important"

• Margaret Muhanga, a Ugandan minister discouraged men from conducting DNA tests on their children
• Muhanga noted that it was not good for the country after a spate of violence and death after negative results
• An Israeli businessman recently killed his Ugandan wife after finding out he was not the father of a six-month-old child she had

A Ugandan minister has dissuaded men from seeking to ascertain their children’s paternity by conducting DNA tests.

Ugandan minister’s warning on DNA tests

The East African country witnessed more men conducting DNA tests on their children, with negative results leading to violence and even death.

The State Minister for Primary Healthcare, Margaret Muhanga, told men to stop DNA tests, saying it was not good for the country.

Daily Monitor reports that the minister made the remarks in Kampala on Tuesday, July 25.

"It is not important. If you have raised your child, that is your child. Biology doesn’t matter. No one is looking for the child, after all. So stay with your child to keep harmony.

If you hear people killing each other because of DNA, why are you even going for it?" she wondered.

Muhanga hinted that not knowing the truth about a child’s paternity was suitable for the dads.

"Anything that you don’t know can’t kill you. If you don’t know that is not your child, it won’t break your heart," she said.

Henry Mwebesa, a health official who spoke at the function, called on laboratories conducting DNA tests to be more responsible.

"You need to know how to communicate results and the right channels to follow. You can’t just throw negative results at the man.”

DNA results lead to death

The sentiments come after an Israeli man took his wife’s life after negative DNA results.

Waeed Taheed suspected his Ugandan wife, Monica Nabukenya, of cheating and secretly took their six-month-old child for DNA tests.

He ascertained that he was not the father and killed his wife before burying her body in a septic tank.

Taheed then reported Nabukenya missing but was arrested after detectives discovered the body.