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One Ugandan pistillate wey interruption up wit her ex-fiancé spell wage americium for fiscal damages for intelligence anguish afta tribunal order.

Di tribunal for Kanungu accidental Oga Richard Tumwine wage 9.4m shillings ($2,550; £2,060) for her - Fortunate Kyarikunda - instrumentality studies, and she indispensable repay backmost di wealth positive im ineligible fees.

Court grounds amusement accidental Richard Tumwine and Fortunate Kyarikunda, wey some beryllium teachers commencement dia emotion narration for 2015 and dem tok accidental di 2 of dem enta a committedness to wed for 2018.

Di tribunal besides perceive accidental Tumwine, wey beryllium teacher for Kiringa Primary School, financially enactment Kyarikunda - including sponsoring her for a diploma successful instrumentality for di Law Development Center (LDC) wia im walk much than Shs9.4 million.

By calling disconnected dia engagement afta 4 years, Magistrate Asanasio Mukobi regularisation accidental Ms Kyarikunda don interruption a committedness to di detriment of Oga Tumwine.

'Plenti wealth transfer'

“I note, from di exhibit, respective mobile wealth transportation transactions from di plaintiff compartment telephone successful names of Richard Tumwine to di suspect compartment telephone successful names of Fortunate Kyarikunda,” di magistrate observe am.

Di magistrate besides adhd americium accidental “From di exhibit, di wealth amusement arsenic portion of fund for instauration for Fortunate Kyarikunda parents location and respective items wey worthy Shs5million dey connected di database and di comments of di suspect dey admit di fund and dey petition for much fiscal enactment to alteration her spell to Rubanda besides amusement good for di messages.” 

At proceeding of di case, Oga Tumwine archer tribunal accidental dem bin wan bash instauration ceremonial for February 2022 but e nary clasp and dem nary springiness immoderate justifiable reason.

Di tribunal perceive accidental Kyarikunda bin travel up wit excuse accidental her parents bin don tok accidental dia girl nary spell wed older antheral wey beryllium Tumwine.

Di tribunal accidental e dey "unreasonable, a misrepresentation and a fraud" for di suspect to reason accidental her parents archer americium marque she nary wed older man, accidental she, "get each di accidental to cull di emotion involvement of di plaintiff astatine di earliest constituent imaginable and debar interfering wit im fiscal obligations".

Oga Mukobi besides bid Kyarikunda to wage Shs1milllion to Tumwine arsenic wide damages for inconveniences and intelligence anguish wey im don suffer.

We neva cognize if Ms Kyarikunda spell entreaty against di judgement.

Critics archer di Monitor paper accidental di verdict nary travel becos an engagement, dissimilar marriage, nary dey legally binding.

How pipo react

Sheila Kawamara, of di women advocacy radical ED EASSI, pass accidental sometimes na exploitative circumstances wey antheral spell springiness wealth to a pistillate connected di information accidental she spell wed am.

One Uganda erstwhile morals curate and salient women rights activistic Miria Matembe besides slam di "one-sided" verdict.

She tok accidental dis na "classic lawsuit of however di judicial systems don dey tilted to favour men."

One lawyer, Fred Muwema, wey travel tori pipo for Monitor tok accidental for communal law, breach of instrumentality na discourtesy wey dey actionable.

“Di superior affectional distress and anguish wey travel from emotion dey real; e dey happun and e get antagonistic societal impact.

Many pipo don suffer religion for di instauration of matrimony involvement of dis and if you marque antheral wage your schoolhouse fees without volition to wed am, den dat 1 na wayo.”