Speaker Anita Among, Moses Magogo Customary Marriage is valid – URSB
Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) has said that the customary (polygamous) marriage between Speaker of Parliament Anita Among and FUFA president Moses Magogo is legal and cannot be invalidated. A Thursday, 22nd September 2022 statement signed by Mr Ronald Jackson Lutunda on behalf of the Registrar of Marriages, URSB says a town clerk cannot invalidate a marriage as has been circulating in the media. “The public is put on notice to ignore the misleading circulating stories about the validity of the said marriage,” the statement reads in part. “The role of the Town Clerk in customary marriage registration is to register and transmit a return to the Registrar of Marriages at Uganda Registration Services Bureau. Neither, the Town clerk nor Registrar of Marriages have the authority to invalidate a marriage,” the statement adds. URSB was responding to a letter by the Town Clerk of Makindye Division Urban Council, Mr. Geoffrey Rwakabale, dated 16th August, 2022, which has been ...