By Richard M. Kavuma
Aug 3, 2004
KAMPALA � At 84, former President Godfrey Binaisa is a new man with a new thrill. Binaisa declared yesterday that he is deeply in love with a Japanese executive of an American corporation. �I am sharp. I am smart. And I move very fast,� Binaisa told The Monitor at his Muyenga house yesterday. That house will soon become a home: the ex-president last week married Ms Yamamoto in a wedding conducted via a satellite link. �Not only does she like me, she loves me; and I love her too,� he said, with a beaming face like a teenager falling in love for the first time. �I am absolutely thrilled. I have no complaints at all.� Yamamoto, 58, is set to join Binaisa in Uganda next month. He said she lives in Columbus-Ohio, USA. News of Binaisa�s wedding was broken by Health Minister Mike Mukula, while at a press function at Lugogo. When The Monitor asked Binaisa, he confirmed excitedly: �Of course!� They have not met physically, but they talked a lot on phone for the six days he was in Seoul. He could not recall her first name, but that has not dampened Binaisa�s excitement. His first wife, Irene, died a year-and-a-half ago. The new one, Binaisa said, is looking forward to seeing this beautiful country. Said the ex-president: �She will arrive in style.� Asked about the reaction of his family, Binaisa said everyone was very supportive of his new love: �They support me whole-heartedly. They welcome her with both hands.� Binaisa�s late father, Cannon Anania Binaisa, captured national imagination when he married a 56-year-old woman at an advanced age of 98. |
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