Twahira Akandinda, the 30-year-old widow of the late legislator Muhammad Ssegirinya, has rejected DNA results that ruled her son out as a biological child of the former MP.
Speaking in an interview on Sanyuka TV, Akandinda admitted that she had a child before meeting Ssegirinya and that he was aware of this. Despite that, she said, the late MP chose to be with her and accepted the child as his own.
Later, the couple welcomed a son together, whom Akandinda is confident is Ssegirinya’s biological child.
“I don’t trust the results. People are trying to fight me, but I believe the truth will come out,” she said, calling on the government to intervene and conduct another DNA test.
“If the second test rules out my son, I will not appeal again,” she added.
Akandinda also claimed that she anticipated the ongoing disputes within the family, saying Ssegirinya’s relatives had started fighting over his property even when he was still alive.
“I am not shocked by what is happening. People just want to steal the Late’s property,” she said.
Former Kawempe South MP, Mubarak Munyagwa, a close associate of Ssegirinya, has vowed to hire lawyers to protect the rights and property of Ssegirinya’s children.
Munyagwa said the late MP never questioned the paternity of any of his children during his lifetime, and that the DNA tests were unnecessary.
Last week, Alex Lusswa Luwemba, Ssegirinya’s longtime assistant, revealed that DNA tests confirmed only four out of nine children brought forward were biologically his. The confirmed children include Nagirinya Aaliyah, Sharifah Nagirinya, Shifrah Nagirinya, and Ivan.
