EXCLUSIVE: Gen Sejusa Sister’s Love Affair Sparks Asylum Storm in Australia
Australian authorities are considering the deportation of Cathy Kuteesa, the sister of the once-feared former coordinator of intelligence organs, Gen David Sejusa.
This was after officials rejected Kuteesa’s request for asylum on grounds of political persecution in Uganda.
It all started in 2005, with Solomon Butuyuyu, who was pursuing a Diploma in Law at the Law Development Centre in Kampala, falling in love with Kuteesa.
The relationship quickly turned steamy as the couple painted the campus red. Little did the lovebirds foresee the roughness of the road ahead of them.
At the time, Kuteesa was pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Community Psychology at Makerere University.
Both looked at the future with optimism. Their dream was to start and build a happy and prosperous family immediately after school.
However, a year later, a new man altered the equation, wooing Kuteesa from Butuyuyu.
Raymond Kwesiga Katugugu, who hails from an affluent family, managed to seduce and wed Kuteesa.
Interestingly, it would later appear, Butuyuyu remained intimate with Kuteesa despite the latter getting married to Kwesiga.
“I remained in the picture as a boyfriend,” Butuyuyu, who is currently in a detention centre in Australia, confessed to ChimpReports in an exclusive interview on Tuesday night.
“Because we were both students; Kuteesa got married to Kwesiga because he came from a wealthy family. We stayed in touch. I was her boyfriend even when she was married,” he emphasised.
Kuteesa got married before completing her campus studies. She says she did a “few casual jobs at university” including working at a bookshop and later counsellor at Consult Care clinic” in Kampala.
By 2013, Kuteesa’s marriage had developed cracks. The couple was no longer living together. In November, 2013 Kuteesa applied for a visa to Australia to attend a diabetes conference.
A few months earlier, Kuteesa’s brother, Daniel died. It’s said Daniel committed suicide but Kuteesa, who wanted to secure asylum in Australia, said Ugandan authorities killed him.
Escape
As she struggled to recover from a broken marriage, Kuteesa quietly planned and left Uganda on July, 20, 2014 to live in Australia.
Before her departure, Kuteesa asked her boyfriend, Butuyuyu, to stay with her three children.
“She (Kuteesa) told me never to give the children to anyone. She told Australian authorities that she was a victim of political persecution in Uganda, citing her brother David Sejusa who had fled to exile,” recalls Butuyuyu.
Australia refused to grant her asylum because Sejusa had worked out his differences with Museveni.
“Sejusa is in Uganda with his family,” authorities told Kuteesa, adding, “What makes you so special, that they want to kill you?”
New plan
Realising she was unable to obtain asylum on grounds of political persecution in Uganda, Kuteesa hatched a new plan.
According to a trove of court documents retrieved by ChimpReports, Kuteesa contacted Butuyuyu to bring the kids to Australia, saying the children should start calling him ‘daddy’.
Kuteesa financed the paperwork in Uganda at a cost of Shs 20m to help Butuyuyu travel with her kids to Australia.
“She sent over Shs 20m for air tickets. The children and I went for Yellow fever immunization at KCCA and a one Matovu helped us through the process because he works there. I was registered as the father of the kids,” said Butuyuyu.
Butuyuyu told the Australian embassy in Nairobi that the mother of the kids was pregnant hence unable to travel with them from Uganda.
“If we had told the Australia embassy officials that Kuteesa was in Australia, we would not have obtained the visas. That’s how we later boarded an Emirates flight through Dubai to Australia.”
Australia
On arrival in Australia in 2016, Kuteesa told Butuyuyu that he should thenceforth tell all and sundry that he was a “single father” of the three boys before jointly seeking asylum.
A year later, Kuteesa and Butuyuyu had fights over money. NGOs were supporting Butuyuyu with money, car and upkeep to take kids to school.
According to Kuteesa, Butuyuyu assaulted and raped her. She said she got tired of domestic violence which was traumatizing her children.
But Butuyuyu said Kuteesa became envious “because being a single father, NGOs were helping me to take care of the family. Kuteesa started feeling resentful since her asylum claims were rejected because Sejusa had returned to Uganda. So, Kuteesa found a way of taking kids away from me so that I lose my ‘single father’ status.”
He added: “Kuteesa came and picked the kids, saying I am a rapist who wanted to kill her.”
Australian police, which is tough on domestic violence, quickly intervened, arresting Butuyuyu in early 2019.
“We are waiting for trial on these allegations. I was taken on remand till December 2019 when I was released because prosecution was yet to obtain evidence in this matter,” said Butuyuyu.
He faces charges of sexual assault, rape, recklessly causing injury, unlawful assault, common assault and attempting to avert the course of justice
While the case has been adjourned to May 26, 2020, Butuyuyu is currently held in a detention centre in Australia’s capital, Melbourne.
Authorities have since discovered that Butuyuyu simply grabbed Kuteesa’s kids from the streets contrary to his claims he was their biological father.
This could see him pay dearly for child trafficking.
Kuteesa and Butuyuyu are also in a family court fighting for custody of children.
Kuteesa told police that Butuyuyu raped her close friend who was living with her in Australia.
Butuyuyu said Kuteesa brought the girl from Uganda to accuse him of rape so he could be arrested and deported.
Kuteesa is in a new romantic relationship with an Australian known as Andrew Fleming with whom he wants to live with.
Fleming, according to documents seen by ChimpReports, has since confirmed his relationship with Kuteesa.
He also visited Uganda to attend the wedding of Gen Sejusa’s daughter where he met with Kuteesa’s close family members.
The development underscores the extent which Ugandans are desperate to live in foreign countries.
Prison life
Butuyuyu said he left his two children with their two mothers in Uganda.
“One is an actress and another, a businesswoman. I haven’t been able to send them school fees or even talk to them. I fear that if I am brought to Uganda, I face ten years in jail for child trafficking,” he said.
Why abandon own kids
Asked why he abandoned his own children to follow Kuteesa in Australia, Butuyuyu responded: “I believed Kuteesa’s children were also mine because he was my girlfriend when she was married. I hoped to work hard and secure the future for the two kids in Uganda. If people are dying to go to Saudi Arabia, who can refuse an opportunity to go to Australia?”
In Australia, Butuyuyu was doing a nursing course at a hospital where he was employed as personal assistant carer.
Born in Bukoto, Kampala, Butuyuyu had built a house in Wakiso on Hoima road before leaving Uganda.
“I am not working. I am now in a detention centre,” he wept.
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