Norbert Mao cited in divorce case

Mr. Martin Kayanja, in response to a divorce petition filed by his wife, Mrs. Beatrice Kayanja, at the Family Court in Makindye, said the two-time presidential candidate, Mr. Mao, used to call his wife at night before she returned to Uganda from the UK, where she was living. 

“I told her to tell him to call at reasonable hours and not those designated for the family, in vain,” Mr. Kayanja said. 

In the throes of love, Mr. Kayanja married Beatrice in 2004 after she separated from the father of her first three children, court documents indicated. 

As a result of Mr. Mao’s reportedly persistent calls at ungodly hours, Mr. Kayanja sent a voice message to the DP stalwart telling him off and asking him to stop calling his wife at such mischievous hours.  

However, Mr. Mao did not seem to get the memo and kept on calling, claims Mr. Kayanja. 

He adds that his wife’s position as Mr. Mao’s research assistant was nothing but a convenient cover for her extramarital relationship with the DP boss. 

Mr. Kayanja claims his wife is inexperienced in politics and so cannot hack it in political research. Thus, implying that Mr. Mao requires her for something outside her official designation. 

Again, Mr. Kayanja claims his wife escorted Mr. Mao to critical DP meetings despite not being a member of any party organ. 

He cited the launch of the DP manifesto ahead of the 2021 presidential elections as one such meeting.

In her court petition, however, Beatrice wanted her marriage to Martin Kayanja dissolved on grounds that it is anything but a marriage. 

“The respondent (Kayanja) has been very quarrelsome and disrespectful to me and has on several occasions belittled me before my children and the public and has uncontrolled anger and enjoys fighting,” Beatrice stated. 

High Court Judge Ketra Katunguka slated the case for hearing on April 4, 2022.