Is New Miss Uganda A Senegalese?
IS the newly-crowned Miss Uganda 2003, Aysha Salmah Nassanga (left), a Ugandan or Senegalese?
By Geoffrey Kamali
and Davis Weddi
IS the newly-crowned Miss Uganda 2003, Aysha Salmah Nassanga (left), a Ugandan or Senegalese?
Mystery surrounds the nationality and ancestry of the new beauty queen who was crowned on Sunday amid pomp and glamour at the Speke Resort, Munyonyo after beating 21 contestants.
The New Vision has reliably learnt that 19-year-old Aysha, a model with Ziper Boutique, is born of foreign parents. Ziper is owned by Silvia Owori, Miss Uganda Ltd managing director.
Sources said her father, Cisse Abu-Baker, is a Senegalese who has lived in Uganda since the late 1970s while her mother, Zainab, is a Luo from Kenya.
But a spokesperson of Miss Uganda Ltd, the pageant organisers said Cisse is her stepfather. It could not be established whether she had formally applied for citizenship or whether it was granted to her as required by the law.
Section 12 (1) of the 1995 Uganda Constitution says, “Every person born in Uganda at the time of whose birth neither of his/her parents and none of his/her grandparents had diplomatic status in Uganda and who lived continuously in Uganda since the ninth of October, 1962, shall on application, be entitled to be registered as a citizen of Uganda.â€
Records at Kampala Citizens High School where Aysha sat her A-level examinations last year, indicate that the beauty registered as Aisha Cisse on admission.
However, she later changed her name to Aisha Abu-Baker on her examination form, number U1231/603.
She also registered a mobile phone number, 077/411954, as her family contact. When contacted, the man on the phone admitted knowing the family but declined to discuss them and hung up.
There were no records of Aysha’s education at the Muslim Girls Primary School in Old Kampala where she was said to have attended her primary school.
But the school authorities said they had several Senegalese pupils and produced one of them, Fatuma Gakou, who recognised Aysha’s picture in the newspaper “We are neighbours. Her father often comes home,†she said.
She gave the reporters a mobile phone contact. “Who are you? We know you are looking for Cisse but you will not get him,†a female voice said hung up.
and Davis Weddi
IS the newly-crowned Miss Uganda 2003, Aysha Salmah Nassanga (left), a Ugandan or Senegalese?
Mystery surrounds the nationality and ancestry of the new beauty queen who was crowned on Sunday amid pomp and glamour at the Speke Resort, Munyonyo after beating 21 contestants.
The New Vision has reliably learnt that 19-year-old Aysha, a model with Ziper Boutique, is born of foreign parents. Ziper is owned by Silvia Owori, Miss Uganda Ltd managing director.
Sources said her father, Cisse Abu-Baker, is a Senegalese who has lived in Uganda since the late 1970s while her mother, Zainab, is a Luo from Kenya.
But a spokesperson of Miss Uganda Ltd, the pageant organisers said Cisse is her stepfather. It could not be established whether she had formally applied for citizenship or whether it was granted to her as required by the law.
Section 12 (1) of the 1995 Uganda Constitution says, “Every person born in Uganda at the time of whose birth neither of his/her parents and none of his/her grandparents had diplomatic status in Uganda and who lived continuously in Uganda since the ninth of October, 1962, shall on application, be entitled to be registered as a citizen of Uganda.â€
Records at Kampala Citizens High School where Aysha sat her A-level examinations last year, indicate that the beauty registered as Aisha Cisse on admission.
However, she later changed her name to Aisha Abu-Baker on her examination form, number U1231/603.
She also registered a mobile phone number, 077/411954, as her family contact. When contacted, the man on the phone admitted knowing the family but declined to discuss them and hung up.
There were no records of Aysha’s education at the Muslim Girls Primary School in Old Kampala where she was said to have attended her primary school.
But the school authorities said they had several Senegalese pupils and produced one of them, Fatuma Gakou, who recognised Aysha’s picture in the newspaper “We are neighbours. Her father often comes home,†she said.
She gave the reporters a mobile phone contact. “Who are you? We know you are looking for Cisse but you will not get him,†a female voice said hung up.