After Joel Isabirye’s marriage with singer and radio presenter, Rebecca Jingo crumbled in April 2014; they became a forgotten couple.
Many concluded that hooking up and splitting with women had since become part of Isabirye’s DNA, their marital woes were shelved.
Last week, Rebecca Jingo in a kiss-and-tell interview with a local tabloid, Kampala Sun, equated her marriage with Joel to peeling onions. She said so much about her ex-husband and summed it by terming him as a mean man.
“We lived and shared a lot together but when we finally got married, Joel changed into a mean person. He stopped giving me money. He literally stopped caring about me. She furthermore claimed that Joel refused her to take care of her father who later passed on. Rebecca claimed that Joel was a man who couldn’t coil his tail but rather go sleeping here and there” Rebecca said.
In the same local tabloid, Joel was contacted for a comment and he said,
“I never stopped her from taking care of her father nor did I stop her from visiting her father. I regularly supported the dad morally and financially and even when they were doing upgrades to his modest home I made contributions towards the furniture. I was not required to do so and I was not asked either. If I did not think he was part of our lives I would not have done so.
Every week, for all the years I was in a relationship and then marriage with Rebecca I gave her money to buy things to take to the dad on every Saturday afternoon after her show Amaka Magungyufu (on Beat FM). She even mentioned this in front of her relatives and my relatives at a birthday party I held for her at a hotel in Kampala in 2014. I also have phone records of the money transferred for that purpose.
I did this because, besides the need for us children to look after our parents, I knew that he was elderly and fragile and of course you cannot alienate family from your spouse. It is bad to expose how you help people. It is only necessary when a lie is told about you.
Every Saturday she would go to visit the dad and I would even talk with him. I would talk and he would tell me how he studied at Buddo and still remembered the names of his teachers. He spoke exceptional English in a very clear baritone voice.
So I wonder how she can make such claims.
I also never stopped Rebecca from visiting other members her family. Realistically, I do not think you can ever stop an adult from going anywhere they want to go. All they do is say I have a meeting at work and go to see their people. So to say that I stopped her from seeing her father or relatives cannot be plausible unless she says I locked her in the house for all her life” Joel said.
