Sheikh Mohammed Mutumba, the Imam of Kyampisi Masjid Noor mosque in Kayunga who recently wedded a fellow man thinking it was a woman has been suspended from his clerical work of preaching, according to Muslim leaders in the district.
Sheikh Isa Busuulwa, the head Imam of Masjid Noor of Kyampisi said Mutumba was under investigation over the unfortunate incident and that he had been suspended from work.
Sheikh Busuulwa further explained that although he attended Mutumba’s wedding reception, as the mosque leadership, they did not take part in the preparations of his function.
However, according to reports, Mutumba, has not been seen at his rented home for about five days now amid concerns that he may commit suicide.
Mutumba’s neighbours claim that they have not seen him again since the story broke that he had wedded a fellow man named Richard Tumushabe.
His neighbours urged the sheikh’s family to counsel him or else he would take his own life.
“He is too devastated by the incident and needs counseling. I had never seen him (Mutumba) with any lover. I believe this was the first lover in his life,” a resident who preferred anonymity said.
Henry Mukwaya, another neighbor, said before the ‘bride’s’ true identity was discovered, he often behaved like a woman and did all the house chores like cooking, washing clothes and others.
“It was not easy to know he was just masquerading as a woman. He always wore gomesi or hijab and spoke like a woman but she kept indoors most of the time,” he said.
Mutumba last week got a shock of his life after finding out that the woman he had married was a man.
After exchanging Islamic marriage vows (nikkah), the couple spent two weeks of their marriage, without enjoying conjugal rights as the “bride” [Swabullah Nabukeera] claimed she was in her menstruation periods.
