Kazibwe Seeks Reconciliation
Feb 25, 2003
TO divorce or not to divorce, that is the big question for Vice-President Dr. Speciosa Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe and Engineer Charles Kazibwe.
By A. Wasike, H. Nsambu and Jude Etyang
TO divorce or not to divorce, that is the big question for Vice-President Dr. Speciosa Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe and Engineer Charles Kazibwe.
Eng. Kazibwe yesterday asked High Court judge Musoke Kibuuka for more time to file a response to his wife’s petition for a divorce.
Speciosa was not in court but was represented by city advocates Paulo Sebalu and James Sebugenyi Mukasa.
Dressed in a short-sleeved brown African-design cotton shirt, black trousers, dust-coated black shoes, with an out-of-fashion 7110 Nokia cell-phone and nervously fingering through The New Vision paper, the tense-looking engineer, through his lawyer Remmy Kasule, said he was holding discussions for a possible mutual resolution of the issue.
“Our clients and my colleagues are holding discussions with a possible mutual resolution of this matter to reunite this family. It is requested that time be given to us by this honourable court. If the discussions result in positive results, we shall inform this court. If the negotiations fail, we shall come back to continue with this matter,†Kasule said.
“There is a lot of mutual obligation on either side to have this matter resolved completely. My lord, for the sake of completing the proceedings, the respondent will file a reply,†Kasule, who blocked the press from speaking to Eng. Kazibwe, said.
He drove him away in a silver-blue Toyota Prado.
The VP’s lawyers concurred with her husband’s advocate. “My lord, we agree with what he has said. If we don’t succeed in our discussions, we shall come back to this court and resume this matter,†Sebalu said.
But the judge noted that Kasule’s application “does not seem to rhyme well.â€
“You seem to be jumping the queue as it were. I am aware that we should allow time for discussions, but the normal process would be that you file your client’s response so that this court can decide whether you have a case or not,†Musoke Kibuuka said.
Kasule said, “Let me have Friday as a deadline within which to file my client’s response.â€
The judge ordered that, “The respondent must file his reply to the petition on 28th February, 2003. This case will be mentioned on 10th March, 2003.â€
On February 3, Speciosa filed for a divorce from her husband, citing adultery and violent assault. She said her husband publicly admitted the attacks, some of which were witnessed by her neighbours. She filed the petition through Sebalu and Lule Advocates in Kampala.
She wants court to grant her custody of their children and that Eng. Kazibwe pays her costs. The couple has five children, including a set of twins. She said her husband committed adultery and had two children with Betty Wanyana.
Speciosa said the children (names withheld) were born after their wedding on November 26, 1983 at the Church of Our lady of Africa, Mbuya, Kampala.
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TO divorce or not to divorce, that is the big question for Vice-President Dr. Speciosa Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe and Engineer Charles Kazibwe.
Eng. Kazibwe yesterday asked High Court judge Musoke Kibuuka for more time to file a response to his wife’s petition for a divorce.
Speciosa was not in court but was represented by city advocates Paulo Sebalu and James Sebugenyi Mukasa.
Dressed in a short-sleeved brown African-design cotton shirt, black trousers, dust-coated black shoes, with an out-of-fashion 7110 Nokia cell-phone and nervously fingering through The New Vision paper, the tense-looking engineer, through his lawyer Remmy Kasule, said he was holding discussions for a possible mutual resolution of the issue.
“Our clients and my colleagues are holding discussions with a possible mutual resolution of this matter to reunite this family. It is requested that time be given to us by this honourable court. If the discussions result in positive results, we shall inform this court. If the negotiations fail, we shall come back to continue with this matter,†Kasule said.
“There is a lot of mutual obligation on either side to have this matter resolved completely. My lord, for the sake of completing the proceedings, the respondent will file a reply,†Kasule, who blocked the press from speaking to Eng. Kazibwe, said.
He drove him away in a silver-blue Toyota Prado.
The VP’s lawyers concurred with her husband’s advocate. “My lord, we agree with what he has said. If we don’t succeed in our discussions, we shall come back to this court and resume this matter,†Sebalu said.
But the judge noted that Kasule’s application “does not seem to rhyme well.â€
“You seem to be jumping the queue as it were. I am aware that we should allow time for discussions, but the normal process would be that you file your client’s response so that this court can decide whether you have a case or not,†Musoke Kibuuka said.
Kasule said, “Let me have Friday as a deadline within which to file my client’s response.â€
The judge ordered that, “The respondent must file his reply to the petition on 28th February, 2003. This case will be mentioned on 10th March, 2003.â€
On February 3, Speciosa filed for a divorce from her husband, citing adultery and violent assault. She said her husband publicly admitted the attacks, some of which were witnessed by her neighbours. She filed the petition through Sebalu and Lule Advocates in Kampala.
She wants court to grant her custody of their children and that Eng. Kazibwe pays her costs. The couple has five children, including a set of twins. She said her husband committed adultery and had two children with Betty Wanyana.
Speciosa said the children (names withheld) were born after their wedding on November 26, 1983 at the Church of Our lady of Africa, Mbuya, Kampala.
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