The cheers and frowns of intimacy in 2009

Jan 04, 2010

WBS TV show host, Straka Mwezi and her fiance, Kayemba, a.k.a Sizza earned this one in early December.

Wedding flop of the year
WBS TV show host, Straka Mwezi and her fiance, Kayemba, a.k.a Sizza earned this one in early December.

Flouting the known procedure of wedding ceremonies, the two advertised their wedding on radio and TV, chose the biggest national stadium as a venue, charged entrance of 10,000 to 20,000 from guests and never indicated the church venue.

On the wedding day, only a handful of people turned up, the groom went into hiding and switched off his phone, service providers and musicians demanded for their pay and Straka, the bride, collapsed and had to be rushed to Senta Medicare in Namasuba.

Guests and service providers insisted she was feigning sickness and invaded her in hospital demanding their pay.

Longest arm of love
It is not only the law that has the long arm. Apparently, kandongo Kamu singer Matthias Walukagga was once in love with one Aisha Nabukeera, who later became tycoon Kasawuli Mukasa’s wife.

It ended while Walukagga was on kyeyo abroad. Nabukeera married Kasawuli, the proprietor of Samona Products Ltd, a cosmetics firm. But when Walukagga returned, Samona became irritable whenever the ex boyfriend was around.

In June, Walukagga seized the moment to compose a song about a vendor of jelly who is scared of his wife’s ex, Omutembiyi W’ebizigo. Samona took him by the horns and blocked Walukagga from being hosted by radios, promoters and advertisers, whom Samona was already giving business.

Walukagga retaliated with another song, Bwino W’omutmbeyi (secrets of a peddler).

Samona sought a court injunction against the song and Walukagga was jailed briefly. After civil intervention, the two agreed to cease hostilities and the world is still watching.

All this time, love, the main factor of the conflict, remained in the background.

Love gesture
On June 20, Kamuli District CID boss David Opure allegedly shot and injured
his wife Malizze Matendo, 44, after she
found him with another woman.

He was charged with attempted murder but his wife forgave him, saying she intended to stay with her husband till death because she swore to do so on their wedding day.

Long awaited wedding
Long standing bachelor Prince Kassim Nakibinge Kakunguli married Hasifa Mulusa in a low key ceremony at Kibuli Mosque on December 9.

Prince Nakibinge, in mid forties and the manager of the Libyan Tropical Bank, is the most influential figure in the country’s Muslim community and an heir of Prince Badru Kakungulu.

He is cousin to Kabaka Ronald Mutebi and the head of one of the Buganda’s wealthiest royal families, with an expanse of land in the city and other parts of Buganda.

His delaying to marry has been a source of concern in the Muslim community.

Biggest public marital brawl
In October, National Forestry Authority boss Damien Akankwasa lost sh900m
which he kept in his bedroom. He accusedhis wife Juliet Katusime, of stealing it. He had her arrested and detained at the Rapid Response Unit in Kireka to be‘interrogated’. She told the press she was tortured. The case gathered dust until the President ordered Akankwasa to go on leave as the saga is being investigated.

Most ugly cat out of the bag
One Enid Kyomugisha who was working with the World Bank, had a secret affair with Ronnie Ssesanga, 33, a resident of Wakaliga in Rubaga Division. Ssessanga turned out to be a conman, who took sh500m from her. When Kyomugisha took her to court, he retaliated by sending the nude pictures they took together to her husband and the press. Married with five children, Kyomugisha’ marriage and job were destroyed.

Defilers
These happen to be from Tororo district. According to the Resident District Commissioner, Mpimbaza Hashaka, 150 girls were defiled in the district in October. He revealed this during the graduation ceremony of 120 pastors at True Vine Theological
Institute. Unfortunately some of the suspects were pastors, he said.

Most embarrassing tragedy
Former army commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini was killed at his
girlfriend’s home in Namuwongo on November 10. His girlfriend, Lydia Draru, confessed to the murder but investigations took many other turns. Kazini was hit with a blunt metallic object on his head. He died instantly in an incident that shocked the country. He had fought against the ADF rebels, the LRA rebels, the Sudan and Rwandan troops at different stages of his command.

Most Suprising wedding
Arua municipality MP Hussein Akbar Godi walked out of prison on bail to wed Shamin Habiba Atiku, 24. He had been accused of killing his first wife, Rehema Caesar Nasser, who was shot dead and dumped at Lugojja in Mukono district. The wedding took place in Arua town on August 20. In second place is the recent wedding of Australian-based
cardiologist, Dr. Aggrey Kiyingi on December 19. He remarried Miriam Nakiyira, a Ugandan singer and a graduate of psychology in Kenya. He was accused of killing his wife, Robinah Kiyingi in 2005 but was acquitted. The Director of Public Prosecution appealed and the case is still pending.

Scandal of the year
In April, the venerated Pastor Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre was the subject of homosexual allegations that span most of 2009. Pastors Martin Sempa of Makerere Community Church, Michael Kyazze of Omega Healing Centre and Solomon Male fronted Samson Mukisa, Robson Mukisa and six other boys as victims. The Police investigated the matter and cleared Kayanja. They then opened a case of trespass and conspiracy to commit a misdemeanour against Kayanja’s accusers.

Planned Revenge
Early on January 12, Mustafa Niwamanya, a UDPF officer who suspected his wife Sakiran Nakku, a student of Makerere University, of having an affair, tied her with an electricity cable and used a flat iron to burn her on the back, arms, feet and breast. He
then confined her to the house for three weeks.

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