Kenyan women to be reunited with their Ugandan father
Jan 07, 2009
TWO Kenyan women will soon be reunited with their Ugandan father in Kampala after 30 years. Following a story published in The New Vision on Monday, Sarah Naliaka Kayanja, 32, and Linnet Nekesa Kayanja, 31, were able to get in touch with their father Mat
By Reuben Olita
TWO Kenyan women will soon be reunited with their Ugandan father in Kampala after 30 years. Following a story published in The New Vision on Monday, Sarah Naliaka Kayanja, 32, and Linnet Nekesa Kayanja, 31, were able to get in touch with their father Mathias Semalulu Gita Kayanja.
Tears of joy filled Nekesa’s eyes yesterday when she received a phone call from her dad in Kampala.
“You are Linnet? This is your dad. Where is my daughter Sarah?†Kayanja asked her second-born daughter at 11:00am.
Nekesa could not hide her joy as she told The New Vision how happy she was to hear her father’s voice which she described as soft and clear. She added that she now belonged to the Nvuma clan of the Baganda.
Kayanja told her daughters that he was eager to see them.
Nekesa said she would be accompanied to Kampala by her husband, son and house-help, while Naliaka will be accompanied by her cousin.
She hailed The New Vision for helping them get in touch with their father.
“Uganda’s leading newspaper has proved that it commands the regional market, owing to the many messages I received from January 5 when the story was published,†Nekesa said.
She said their uncle, Patrick Kayanja, was the first to call her from South Africa after reading the paper online and promised to liaise with his brother, Mathias.
Nekesa also said it was good news when their aunt from the Bukusu clan in Kenya called them from Kampala to tell them that she was married to someone from the Kayanja family. The aunt spoke in Kibukusu.
Nekesa added that many New Vision readers in Kampala and the Diaspora also called to register their sympathy and prayers.
She recalled a reader from Rwanda who said he had also been looking for his Ugandan father for decades.
Naliaka said they needed their father’s blessings. “We are living a hopeless life without the blessings of our dad. All our efforts to venture into business have always been unsuccessful with a premonition that it could be the curses of our dad,†She told The New Vision.
Kayanja last went to Kenya in 1991, but Nanjala prevented him from meeting his daughters and she threatened to take legal action if he returned to Kenya.
TWO Kenyan women will soon be reunited with their Ugandan father in Kampala after 30 years. Following a story published in The New Vision on Monday, Sarah Naliaka Kayanja, 32, and Linnet Nekesa Kayanja, 31, were able to get in touch with their father Mathias Semalulu Gita Kayanja.
Tears of joy filled Nekesa’s eyes yesterday when she received a phone call from her dad in Kampala.
“You are Linnet? This is your dad. Where is my daughter Sarah?†Kayanja asked her second-born daughter at 11:00am.
Nekesa could not hide her joy as she told The New Vision how happy she was to hear her father’s voice which she described as soft and clear. She added that she now belonged to the Nvuma clan of the Baganda.
Kayanja told her daughters that he was eager to see them.
Nekesa said she would be accompanied to Kampala by her husband, son and house-help, while Naliaka will be accompanied by her cousin.
She hailed The New Vision for helping them get in touch with their father.
“Uganda’s leading newspaper has proved that it commands the regional market, owing to the many messages I received from January 5 when the story was published,†Nekesa said.
She said their uncle, Patrick Kayanja, was the first to call her from South Africa after reading the paper online and promised to liaise with his brother, Mathias.
Nekesa also said it was good news when their aunt from the Bukusu clan in Kenya called them from Kampala to tell them that she was married to someone from the Kayanja family. The aunt spoke in Kibukusu.
Nekesa added that many New Vision readers in Kampala and the Diaspora also called to register their sympathy and prayers.
She recalled a reader from Rwanda who said he had also been looking for his Ugandan father for decades.
Naliaka said they needed their father’s blessings. “We are living a hopeless life without the blessings of our dad. All our efforts to venture into business have always been unsuccessful with a premonition that it could be the curses of our dad,†She told The New Vision.
Kayanja last went to Kenya in 1991, but Nanjala prevented him from meeting his daughters and she threatened to take legal action if he returned to Kenya.