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Mar 17, 2004
AN estranged wife to the Ntenjeru North MP the Rev. Kefa Ssempangi has said she quit her 22-year-long marriage when her ex-husband took on an orphaned “child†for a wife.<br>
By Solomon Muyita
AN estranged wife to the Ntenjeru North MP the Rev. Kefa Ssempangi has said she quit her 22-year-long marriage when her ex-husband took on an orphaned “child†for a wife.
“I couldn’t share a house with them. This is a child we adopted and brought up as foster parents under the African Foundation Programme,†Jane Frances Nakamya, 47, testified before the Uganda Human Rights Commission Tribunal yesterday.
She told commissioner Miriam Wangadya that she was not opposed to the marriage, but wanted some of the property she heavily invested in to get money to cater for the four children she had with the MP.
“We agreed to disagree. I knew Kefa was an adult, free to marry anything in a skirt. I said, it’s alright and I moved out of Mukono for another house we built in Busega. That’s where I am residing with my children,†she said.
Asked whether the girl was underage, Nakamya said “Let Kefa tell you that himself. All I know is that they were moving out long before they wed.â€
Ssempangi was not present, but his lawyer, Kafuko Ntuuyo, represented him.
She said she was baffled by Ssempangi’s closure of Sunny Corner High School she was the majority shareholder on January 12, 2003.
Nakamya, a holder of a master’s degree in education, is seeking legal ownership of the school and a parking yard nearby.
She wants to be compensated for the closure of the school and an order for Ssempangi to provide for his children.
She also sought legal custody of the children.
She said she was now depending on the little collection from the undeveloped parking yard at Kitega in Mukono. She said there are many more properties they bought together but she decided not to pursue them.
“He can look after street children, but not his own children. That is why I decided to offload him of that burden. But I want the school to get an income to look after them effectively,†she said, adding that she turned Ssempangi’s request to be wedded in church because he had married another woman living in the US. Hearing continues on May 3.
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AN estranged wife to the Ntenjeru North MP the Rev. Kefa Ssempangi has said she quit her 22-year-long marriage when her ex-husband took on an orphaned “child†for a wife.
“I couldn’t share a house with them. This is a child we adopted and brought up as foster parents under the African Foundation Programme,†Jane Frances Nakamya, 47, testified before the Uganda Human Rights Commission Tribunal yesterday.
She told commissioner Miriam Wangadya that she was not opposed to the marriage, but wanted some of the property she heavily invested in to get money to cater for the four children she had with the MP.
“We agreed to disagree. I knew Kefa was an adult, free to marry anything in a skirt. I said, it’s alright and I moved out of Mukono for another house we built in Busega. That’s where I am residing with my children,†she said.
Asked whether the girl was underage, Nakamya said “Let Kefa tell you that himself. All I know is that they were moving out long before they wed.â€
Ssempangi was not present, but his lawyer, Kafuko Ntuuyo, represented him.
She said she was baffled by Ssempangi’s closure of Sunny Corner High School she was the majority shareholder on January 12, 2003.
Nakamya, a holder of a master’s degree in education, is seeking legal ownership of the school and a parking yard nearby.
She wants to be compensated for the closure of the school and an order for Ssempangi to provide for his children.
She also sought legal custody of the children.
She said she was now depending on the little collection from the undeveloped parking yard at Kitega in Mukono. She said there are many more properties they bought together but she decided not to pursue them.
“He can look after street children, but not his own children. That is why I decided to offload him of that burden. But I want the school to get an income to look after them effectively,†she said, adding that she turned Ssempangi’s request to be wedded in church because he had married another woman living in the US. Hearing continues on May 3.
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