The issue of DNA tests in Uganda is getting more complicated, especially because of how results affect families. The latest family to suffer such woes is that of a city tycoon who is yet to recover from shock after results indicated that he is not the biological father of most of the children he thought were his for a number of decades.
The tycoon, who is of advanced age, had written his will, detailing how he wants his property to be shared amongst all his 15 children.
But he was left in shock after DNA results revealed that only four of the 15 he wanted to partake of shares in the fruits of his sweat once he is gone, are not his biological children.
In simple terms 11 of the children he had looked after over the years, paid for school fees and treated as his own, were not his.
Interestingly there was one child, supposed to be the 16th, who this tycoon suspected he was not his. The young man, a promising city lawyer, was not included among the 15 children who were meant to share part the stinking rich man’s wealth.
According to Simon Mundeyi, the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC), the DNA test was conducted after the old tycoon’s lawyer whispered to the youthful lawyer who was left out as the wealthy man divided his property.
The youthful lawyer went to court. Subsequent DNA tests confirmed that the tycoon was the biological further of the lawyer.
“In his will, he shared his property among his 15 children, except for one, whom he believed not to be his son. Coincidentally, this son is a lawyer who went to the same school with the lawyer who was keeping the will. So the lawyer keeping the will whispered to his friend that he had been left out. The son in turn sued his dad, and they were subjected to DNA testing, including all of the other children,” narrated Mundeyi in a recent show.
“It turned out that out of the 15 children, only four were his. Surprisingly, the lawyer who sued him is among the four. Shockingly, eleven, including the child he had willed as his heirs, were not his.”
A few weeks ago, Mundeyi revealed that the number of men seeking DNA tests for their children had shot to an average of 40 per week.
You can see how exiled Ugandan writer Kakwenza reportedly ballooned a Mzungu woman after abandoning his wife HERE.
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