National Unity Platform (NUP) leadership has warned Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) vice chairperson in charge of Buganda and also the Sisimuka Uganda civic organisation Frank Gashumba to stop claiming that he has a close relationship with Barbra Itungo Kyagulanyi the wife to their party president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine)

Speaking to theGrapevine, Alex Mufumbiro the NUP deputy spokesperson cleared the air confirming that Itungo has no relationship with Gashumba.

Mufumbiro advised their supporters locally and internationally to discard the allegation which have been widely spread by Gashumba for his personal benefit.

“I have been receiving several phone calls from our people who want to know if it is true that Gashumba is a relative to our first lady Babie Itungo, the answer is no. I’m giving the last warning to Gashumba through you people, he should stop making such claims because he will pay for it through legal means,” Mufumbiro said.

He explained that Itungo’s background can be widely traced in entire Ankole but Gashumba can only be traced in his home village in Villa Maria in Kalungu district that is why he wants to glue himself on the already established Itungo to secure a name and recognition.

Mufumbiro further revealed that Ali Bukeni alias Nubian Li’s wife is also not a relative to Gashumba as alleged by the man himself.

Mufumbiro made the statements after Gashumba’s warning to Bobi Wine and entire NUP leadership when he stopped them from insulting and attacking the Banyarwanda (Bavandimwe) community in Uganda.

Gashumba warned NUP that they will lose the battle they declared on the Abavandimwe because they have penetrated all the families in Uganda including that of Bobi Wine and all his friends.

“That Barbie is my sister, she is Omuvandimwe and Kyagulanyi is our brother-in-law, the same story as Nubian Li,” Gashumba boasted on Radio 4.

He advised Bobi Wine to carefully handle Bavandimwe because they have the numbers that can help any politician take over the country’s leadership.

Gashumba on several occasions has been fighting for the rights of Abavandimwe arguing that it is illegal for government to deny them some services like giving them National Identity cards, passports and other forms of discrimination.

Gashumba insists that Abavandimwe are also 100% Ugandans.

By Grapevine Reporter

Family Division of the High Court judge Celia Nagawa has dissolved the marriage of Radio One and Akaboozi ku biiri boss and his wife as top UPDF Officer and witchcraft are cited to have caused troubles for the love birds.

The judge agreed with Brian Mochorwa Mariaria, an accountant working with Radio One and also a farmer that his marriage with his wife Fortunate Komugisha could no longer stand and dissolution was the only option to save the petitioner and defendant’s lives.

“Therefore, I will not hesitate to release whoever wants to leave for a justified cause than to keep a shell house. In the instant case, the Petitioner testified that during the subsistence of the marriage, it was marred with domestic violence, cruelty and he lived on the edge,” the judge stated.

She added that in divorce proceedings, court deals with people who are often feel chaotic emotions and powerful passions.

She acknowledged the feelings of damage, failure, guilt and anger that divorce typically creates, noting that if there is to be divorce, the law should not exacerbate the bitterness between the parties.

The judge states that to expect a legal system to enable the parties to separate happily and then have a good post-divorce relationship is pure idealism.

She further stated that while for some divorce is a tragedy, for others, it can be the start of a happy new future.

In his petition through his lawyers led by Denis Akanyijuka,  Mochorwa told court that he lawfully married Komugisha on 28^th December, 2012 at Our Lady of Africa Church in Mbuya, Kampala District.

He added that during the subsistence of their marriage, they cohabited in Naalya and Luzira in Kampala and they produced two children.

He told court that unfortunately one of the child died and they remained with one.

He further told court that since they legally started staying together, their marriage was marred with misunderstandings which at a later stage developed into domestic violence and that the wife deserted their matrimonial home without reasonable excuse to live with other men.

He produced three witnesses who have vast knowledge of their marriage situation to back up his case.

These included; Andrew Mutumba who was his best man at their wedding, Joshua Kisozi and Annet Moraa who all pleaded with the presiding judge to resolve the marriage.

In his testimony, the petitioner also told court about a certain UPDF officer who his wife had introduced to him as her father before their wedding yet in fact he was her sister’s husband.

He added that because he is a Seventh Day Adventist, and goes to church every Saturday to pray, the wife used that opportunity to engage with the UPDF officer at their matrimonial home.

He noted that he got suspicious that the said Afande was having an affair with his wife because he always visited their home on Saturday knowing when he was away.

His suspension was deepened when the said officer started giving his wife large sums of money for no work done.

The petitioner further revealed that because of their misunderstanding, they separated between 2014 and 2017.

After he involved his church leadership, they reconciled.

However, he learnt that in his absence, the wife had gotten other boyfriends, got pregnant and aborted.

He added that when he was away in Tanzania, he was called by their house maid informing him that his wife had chased her away from their home and did not allow her to access her belongings because she feared that she was going to disclose to him the witchcraft ceremonies that she was performing in their house targeting him.

He testified to court that since that day, he stopped going back home and instead instituted a Divorce case against his wife which was dismissed after his former lawyers failed to do enough due diligence.

He decided to file another suit which was allowed by court.

He testified that their marriage has been slippery, narrating how on their wedding day, his wife abused and insulted him in church in the presence of the presiding priest and on their honeymoon, she fumed, abused him and became violent.

He stated that when his wife sent him for something on his way back home from work, she would warn him not to return home if he did not have it.

“One day the Respondent told him to buy a baby carrier and cautioned him not to return home if he failed to get it. The Petitioner failed to get the baby carrier and when he reached home, the Respondent started quarreling and eventually slapped him,” the judge quoted the petitioner in her judgment.

She added that the petitioner narrated to court how his wife went ahead to grab a knife from the kitchen and charged it towards him; they fought for the knife until he managed to take it away from her after breaking several valuable household property.

The petitioner told court that the wife even vowed to steal a gun from the UPDF officer friend to kill him and on several occasions she threatened to poison him that is why he stopped eating any food prepared at home.

She further pined the wife of neglecting their only child stating that between 2019 and 2021, he did not know the whereabouts of her and his son until he came to learn that she had abandoned the child at her cousin brother’s home, a one Otterans Tayebwa.

He testified that Tayebwa called him and informed him that his son was sick and the wife had disappeared.

On getting this information, he immediately left radio offices in Kampala along Duster Street to look for his son who he found at  Tayebwa’s home.

The Petitioner stated that he found his son very sick, in pain and was in a very bad state dressed in tattered clothes.  He stated that he took the child to hospital and also got him clothing.

He told court that the said minor now stays with him.

Even though Komugisha was served with the petition through her WhatApp number which shows that she received the court documents, and was also served through daily monitor newspaper, she didn’t file a defense and the judge based on the petitioner’s evidence to dissolve their marriage.

She allowed the petitioner to stay with their only son who is 11 years old and the wife was only allowed to visit the son once in the month until she turns 18 years old.

Even though the petitioner told court that he owned a home in Kajjansi, farmland in Wobulenzi Luwero district, he informed court in his affidavit that they don’t have any immovable property together so no order was issued on the issue of sharing of the properties.

By Sengooba Alirabaki

Exclusively speaking to the mighty Grapevine, Hajji Faruk Kirunda the deputy presidential press secretary has narrated the genesis of the fight between late Joseph Tamale Mirundi and Lt Gen Proscovia Nalweyiso.

Kirunda revealed that Mirundi and Lt Gen Nalweyiso’s fights started when the deceased was still working in State House as President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s spokesperson.

He explained that at that time, Mirundi had many fights with fellow workmates and he was looking for allies to fight on his side.

Mirundi was very sure that Lt Gen Nalweyiso was going to be on his side.

Kirunda said that unfortunately, because Lt Gen Nalweyiso is accommodative to all kinds of people, she always wants to create peace.

So she declined to take on Mirundi’s suggestions.

He explained that Lt Gen Nalweyiso fought to mediate Mirundi and other people he was fighting with but Mirundi was very radical and only believed in fighting and defeating the enemy.

Since then, Mirundi started using media platforms to verbally attack and humiliate the person of Lt Gen Nalweyiso who decided not to respond to him but kept on reaching out to him for peace.

He said that even when Mirundi was fired from the State House, Nalweyiso kept on wishing good for him.

That’s why whenever he is got into problems which needed the intervention of the president, she made sure that the president gets to know his troubles and immediately helps him solve them.

Kirunda revealed that Museveni used Lt Gen Nalweyiso to deliver financial and any other support needed to Mirundi especially during his last hours before his death and his immediate family is aware of all this.

He explained that it is because of that love that Nalweyiso surprised many by attending Mirundi’s burial and his family members apologised to her because they know how the deceased humiliated her through his media platforms.

Kirunda confirmed that God gifted Mirundi with a sharp brain and compared him to the likes of Kenyan famous professor Patrick Lumumba.

He assured Mirundi’s family that President Museveni will be there for them and prayed that Mirundi rests in Internal Peace.

By Sengooba Alirabaki