KAMPALA: A Ugandan man has been filmed in what is suspected to be a Kampala City surburb brutalizing his wife in broad day light.
The video which seems to have been filmed secretly by a concerned person is currently making rounds of the social media application WhatsApp.
MediaScapeNews has not been able to establish when, where the incident took place. Nor has it been able to know who filmed it.
However, our sources say it could have reached sections of the Ugandan Police at the time of filing this story.
We would like to warn that the video is very disturbing but we are compelled to publish it in order for authorities to take action.
The unidentifird filmer is seen being warned by the brutal man against filming the incident.
At first, there appears to be two men before the brutal beating starts. The first man seemed to have wanted to interfere and stop the violoncello but he is warned by the man to stay away from their issues.
Despite the woman’s pleas, the man refuses to stop. By standarders who cannot be seen in the video are heard pleading with the man who doesn’t take heed and continues beating the woman like he was hitting a cobra.
He reminds in her in the local language Luganda that he warned her to stay away from him home and she refused.
The woman please to the second man to not leave or else she will be killed but the man walks away helplessly, probably not wanting to interfere in what appears to be a domestics matter.
The short clip ends at a point where the man is seen warning the secret filmer against recording the incident.
“You! Don’t film me,” the man warns in Luganda, a local language commonly spoken in the central region of the country.
Uganda has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the region despite making huge strides in women emancipation.
Aid agencies report that 58.4% of married women in 2019 reported ever having experienced emotional, physical or sexual violence from a spouse, and 39.6% had experienced it within the past year.
According to the aid agencies in Kampala, causes of domestic violence in Uganda include lack of mutual trust, dispute over property, poor communication, lack of sexual satisfaction, alcohol or drugs abuse, food insecurity, cultural, norms and beliefs, character or personality, marital infidelity, relatives and friends among others.