If various media reports are anything to go by, Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Nobert Mao is said to have finally made his under scrutiny relationship with his recently divorced lover Beatrice Kayanja official in a secret Kukyala function held on Sunday, 26, 2024.
The attendance by invite only function is reported to have been graced by Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo, a close friend of the maverick DP Presidend General Minister and other bigwigs from the government and the Democratic Party.
But who is that lucky woman who will be warming the battle hardened Museveni critic cum ally for the rest of his life?
Beatrice Kayanja is a Research Assistant at the Mao-led Democratic Party (DP). She returned to Uganda in 2020 to contest for Kampala Capital City Authority Lord Mayorship but was locked out of the race by the Electoral Commission for failing to meet the requisite demands.
Reports then came up that she was making out her Democratic Party President General Nobert Mao. This version of events was collaborated by her then-husband, Martin Kayanja, who accused her of getting too close to Mao given his single status.
The events coincided with Mao’s complex marriage situation, having been in a rocket relationship with estranged wife Naomi Adong Achien for over eight years.
Mao’s 16-year marriage to Naomi was ultimately dissolved by the High Court (Family Division) in 2019.
Justice Godfrey Namundi dissolved the marriage in his judgment delivered on May 27, 2019, on a petition filed by Achieng accusing Mao of cruelty and desertion. Mao, who had three children with Achieng following their civil marriage on August 8, 2003, is said to have deserted his wife for eight years.
Initially, Beatrice also known as Bae Kay was enrolled in NRM, when she didn’t get NRM endorsement for mayorship, she tried People Power before it became NUP, still, she was not endorsed and went to DP where she was endorsed right away.
This fast endorsement coupled with her close relationship with Mao lately must have hit Mr. Kayanja so hard.
Two years ago, Beatrice Kayanja, the woman now “in things” at the minister’s house petitioned the High Court Family Division to dissolve her marriage with her longtime UK-based hubby Martin Kayanja and father of her children vide HCT-00-FD-DC-0021-2021 and the case was assigned to Lady Justice Ketra Katunguka Kitarisibwa.
Inside sources reveal that when their relationship developed thorns, their relatives tried several avenues of making them reconcile and settle the matter in vain.
It should be noted that last year, Mr. Kayanja surfaced on social media in a video making various allegations that he had been suspecting that his wife was cheating on him.
In a video clip that was widely circulated on social media, Kayanja accused the top politician of wrecking his marriage. Kayanja, who lives in London UK, pleaded with the politician to look for other women and ‘give his wife space’.
In the video, Kayanja revealed that his wife came to Uganda on a business visit in March 2020 and has since refused to return to London to rejoin the family. In the clip, Kayanja begs his wife to respect her marriage and return home.
Beatrice is an IT engineer who studied at the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, where she lived with her family until early 2020 when she returned to Uganda.
She later announced her candidacy for the Kampala Lord Mayor seat in the 2021 general elections before she was blocked by the Electoral Commission on account of failure to present her citizenship credentials.
