KAMPALA, Uganda — A woman angry with an expectant Christian couple poisoned the two and inadvertently poisoned her own daughter as well.
Hanifa Hamiyat of Uganda’s Nabiganda town used the common practice of sharing an evening meal during the Muslim observance of Ramadan to poison Doreen Nairuba and Nairuba’s husband, Jackson Wampula. Morning Star News reports that Nairuba was six months pregnant.
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On March 16, Hamiyat sent her 18-year-old daughter, Marriam Kapisa, to deliver the meal to the couple. Kapisa ate with the couple, not knowing that the food had been poisoned, a source told Morning Star.
Kapisa and Wampula died at a hospital. Nairuba succumbed before reaching a hospital, a neighbor said.
On the day of the poisoning, a neighbor saw Kapisa leaving a church service with Wampula and Nairuba, who had been telling Kapisa about Jesus Christ. The neighbor informed Kapisa’s Muslim mother, who prepared the meal.
Confession
A source told Morning Star that Hamiyat was detained and confessed.
“I never intended to kill my daughter, but my plan was to kill the neighbors because of taking my daughter to church during this holy month of Ramadan,” the source quoted Hamiyat as saying.
Approximately 12% of Uganda’s population is Muslim. Uganda’s constitution and laws allow for freedom of religion, including converting from one faith to another. However, Christian churches increasingly have received threats of violence, and some Christian converts have been attacked, killed or excommunicated by Muslim family members, the World Atlas reports.
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