{"id":23648,"date":"2023-01-30T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=23648"},"modified":"2023-01-30T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:59:01","slug":"former-mp-marries-two-wives-in-one-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=23648","title":{"rendered":"Two brides, one ceremony as Hon Watenga makes it official"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watenga Godfrey Nabutanyi, a former Lutseshe county Member of Parliament (MP), married his two women over the weekend in one ceremony that has been dubbed\u00a0\u201ctwin marriage\u201d of the year.<\/p>\n

The traditional ceremony was held at Watenga\u2019s paternal home in Bubisikwa lower cell, Kuushu town council where families of both his wives; Beatrice Nanzala and Christine Nekesa, arrived ahead of the event.\u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n

Reports indicate that Watenga has been with his two women for over five years, and they have children together. Hon Pentagon Kamusiime, who was among the hundreds that attended the ceremony commented; \u201cI attended my colleague\u2019s twin marriage. Hon Watenga Godfrey Nabutanyi did a brave act by organizing a successful twin marriage I love his honesty because many men out there are not honest enough to do such.\u201d<\/p>\n

Polygamous marriages are legal in Uganda\u2019s traditional cultures and among Muslims according to Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB).<\/p>\n

My Wedding congratulates the couple.<\/p>\n

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Watenga Godfrey Nabutanyi, a former Lutseshe county Member of Parliament (MP), married his two women over the weekend in one ceremony that has been dubbed\u00a0\u201ctwin marriage\u201d of the year. The traditional ceremony was held at Watenga\u2019s paternal home in Bubisikwa lower cell, Kuushu town council where families of both his wives; Beatrice Nanzala and Christine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1785],"class_list":["post-23648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-stories"],"authors":[{"term_id":1785,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"enantambi","display_name":"Esther Nantambi","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b1fa0f938f32d805446562e1bb7c32da6a6c7e51bd320fd89d4ba0819146b78d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Esther","last_name":"Nantambi","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23655,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23648\/revisions\/23655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23648"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=23648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}