Police in Apac district are hunting for a 35 year old woman for cutting off her husband’s penis following a bed room misunderstanding.

Moses Okot, aged 46, a peasant farmer in Amun B Village, , who is currently enduring severe pain as he fights for his life at Apac main hospital says his wife, Beatrice Acen returned home drunk on Sunday last week and cut off his penis.

“When I returned home from hunting around 7:00pm, my wife was not home. My daughter served me food and I went to bed thereafter. My wife returned at around 10:00pm and shouted that I open for her the door,” Mr Okot narrates.

“I was already asleep. I felt some little pain, which woke me up only to find my pants wet with blood,” he adds.

Okot admits that he has for long had disagreements with his wife over her alcoholism and thus decided to punish her by denying her conjugal rights.

“The woman comes back home when she is too drunk. As a man, I would no longer tolerate such, so I decided to deny her sex with hope that she would reform. She had always demanded for sex.”

Okot and Acen have been married for more than ten years and are blessed with five children.

However  Anthony Ogwal the LC1 chairman of Amun B Village says the couple has for long been involved in violent fights. Ogwal also confirmed that the woman has on several occasions complained about her husband ignoring her sexual demands.

“It’s not the first time Acen is inflicting injuries on her husband.  Last year, she broke this man’s collar bone during a domestic fight and ran away. The case was settled in my office and they reunited,” he says.

Ogwal blamed the rampant cases of domestic violent in his area on alcoholism.

Armed conflict, poverty, alcohol abuse and cultural attitudes are responsible for the high incidence of domestic violence in Ugandan communities, according to a report by the Uganda Law Reform Commission .

Some 92 percent of 6,000 people surveyed in 2008 reported that some form of domestic violence was taking place in their communities with the highest levels recorded in northern Uganda.

The report cited several types of domestic abuse, including sexual violence, drunkenness, psychological torture, confiscation of property, physical and bodily harm, adultery, use of abusive language, nagging and marital rape.

The commonest form of domestic violence reported was physical abuse and child abuse, including beating, torture, biting and stabbing, which accounted for 36 percent of the respondents.