By Mulengera Reporters
Pastor Irene Manjeri of Bethel Healing Center Lweza, who together with PS Imelda Namutebi blessed Judith Babirye and Paul Musoke Sebulime’s union at a public function 28th July last year, now says the Buikwe woman MP duped and led them into making mistakes.
Manjeri, who happily prayed for the couple in the presence of VP Sekandi, says Babirye invited them to pray for and bless her introduction but they were shocked when she turned the thing into a wedding. She says when Babirye changed into what looked like a wedding gown, she thought she was just acting and doing this to perform a certain unique song for Sebulime thanking him for introducing her.
That when she and Namutebi asked Babirye to clarify whether this was a wedding or introduction, she told them “byombi mbimaze leero” meaning “I’m done with both today.” Manjeri says it was too late for them to reverse anything. They just kept quiet but deep inside their hearts they knew this wasn’t morally right because a proper Christian wedding has to be conducted inside a gazzetted church as opposed to being disguised as a wedding. She says as far as she is concerned Babirye is yet to properly wed Sebulime in ways that are acceptable in church traditions and practice.
Manjeri is saying all this after Charles Nsimbi, who is a senior manager with URSB which has the last word on lawfulness of marriages on behalf of government, came out to clearly state the GoU doesn’t recognize the marriage Babirye and Sebulime claim to have solemnized on 28 July last year. He said there was nothing like a marriage between the two adding that it’s only a media story but there is nothing registered in their records showing existence of marriage union between Babirye and Sebulime.
The only Babirye marriage they have on their record is the one with Samuel Niiwo her former husband who she claims to have divorced. Meanwhile, Sebulime has continued with his divorce case in Family Division of High Court where he is insisting, he can’t stay with Babirye anymore because of infidelity and also for depriving him his right to have sex with her. He is also denying being the father of the baby boy Babirye delivered in the US recently.