A woman and her son have been remanded separately at Luzira Maximum Prison in a dramatic family dispute. The son, Mr. Bosco Sengimana, was charged with assaulting his father and was remanded till 10th Feb; the mother, on her part, is accused of illegally hiding land properties she co-owns with her husband, Mr. Paul Kamaali.
It allegedly started in April 2024 when the accused, Ms. Verena Bagyeni, filed a divorce case in the High Court Family Division, accusing Mr Kamaali of being violent and threatening her life. Through her lawyers, Ms. Bagyeni listed 12 properties she said they jointly acquired and developed. She asked the court to compel Mr. Kamaali to share the properties equally with her.
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“That petitioner (Bagyeni) complains of the respondent’s cruel, erratic, unstable, and malevolent behavior towards her, which was characterized by constant belittling in front of their children, housemaids, workers, and local leaders. Police officers, tenants, and neighbors,” the plaintiff’s complaint reads in part, the case currently before the Family Court.
It is reported that Mr. Kamaali demanded that his wife (the complainant), with whom he has lived for 41 years, give him all the land titles and vacate their matrimonial home at Kisigula-Mutundwe in Wakiso District.
In response, Ms. Bagyeni and her children have petitioned the commander of Kampala Metropolitan Police, seeking his intervention in the matter. They accuse police officers handling the case of bias in favor of their father.
In a January 20, 2025 letter, Ms. Bagyeni and her daughter, Allen Umimana, stated there case, accusing police officers of being biased in the way they handled her complaint when she accused her husband of beating her.
“To our disappointment, the said Kamaali Paul in turn made false allegations against us and our mother and files were opened and we were arrested by the Flying Squad and others. By those actions, an imbalance has been created by the police at Nateete for which we see no justice delivered to us,” the letter reads in part.
Ms. Umimana added that ever since their mother filed the divorce case, their father had resorted to mistreating them with the help of unscrupulous security personnel, with all offspring wanted by police.
“We have witnessed domestic violence over the years in our family, and we treated it as normal. But it reached a time when our father chased our mother from the business and nearly killed her. When our mother decided to move out of the marriage, we stopped pleading with her to stay,” she said.
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