Joan Namatovu, the former maid to Super FM radio proprietor Peter Ssematimba has pleaded to Court to dismiss with costs the case that the later filed in court concerning the custody of their daughter.

Through her lawyers of C/O M/S Nalukoola and Company Advocates and Newmark Advocates, Namatovu informed Court that before it proceeds with the matter, she is ready to raise a preliminary objection challenging the competence of Ssematimba’s case.

Namatovu started by telling Court that her former boss filed his suit in a wrong Court. She added that both parties are not residents of Makindye where the case was filed.

In her affidavit, Namatovu admittedly told Court that she was hired by Ssematimba to work at his home in Rubaga Division as a maid.

She added that Ssematimba used his status as her boss to trick and lure her into having sexual intercourse with her and they produces a one Kisu Seku.

Namatovu said that when she got pregnant, Ssematimba rented for her a house in Zana not Namasuba as he allegedly told Court in his suit.

She further narrated that she stayed in Zana for three years until the landlord asked them to vacate the house because she wanted to renovate it.

Namatovu disclosed that and she shifted with her new born daughter to Lungujja, a suburb in Rubaga Division Kampala.

She further told Court that by that time, she was still working at Ssematimba’s home and they used to have sex every time he came back home from work.

Namatovu divulged that after satisfying Ssematimba’s sexual appetite, he used to drive her back home with her daughter.

She added that Ssematimba still paid their rent but other basic welfare needs were catered for by herself and her elder sister.

Namatovu pleaded to Court not to allow Ssematimba’s application. She told court that Ssematimba is a short-tempered man and on several occasions, he acted violently towards her daughter including assaulting her which one time forced her to quit the maid job at the peririoner’s home.

She narrated that she later got another job in Muyenga but Ssematimba pleaded with her and persuaded her to go back and work for him.

“I continued working for him as a maid but at the same time cohabiting/ sleeping with him. However, on several occasions, he would bring different women in the house and have sexual intercourse with them in presence of my daughter. He also kept demanding for sex from me and when I denied him, he could force himself on me,” she narrated.

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She added that when the applicant embarked on studying for senior six exams, he kept sleeping with several women including but not limited  to his teachers that came to coach him at home in presence of their daughter which she vehemently disagreed with.

Namatovu told Court that in 2019, Ssematimba become frequently quarrelsome and picky at home, he was very abusive towards her and their daughter which forced her to quit her maid job again and even change location. She rented a house in Mutundwe.

She declined to allegation that she took her daughter out of school and denied the applicant access to her daughter arguing that Ssematimba knows where they stay and on has several occasions visited them in Mutundwe.

She disclosed that in April 2021, Ssematimba took their daughter and cut off all communication with her which tortured her emotionally and mentally.

“I am worried that my daughter will learn immoral behaviours if she is allowed to stay with the applicant, he sleeps around with different women at his resident and a ten-year-old girl cannot be exposed to such conduct,” she pleaded.

Namatovu insisted that she has the capacity to look after her daughter.

“I pray that custody be granted to me and the applicant be allowed to access the child. It is in the best interest of both justice and welfare of the child that the applicant’s motion is dismissed with costs and custody of our daughter is maintained with me,” she pleaded.

Court is set to start hearing the matter in which Ssematimba wants Court to grant him the sole custody of their daughter on 29/06/2021.

By Sengooba Alirabaki