Dr Vincent Katongole, Pastor Irene Manjeri’s ex-husband, has spoken out on their divorce after almost three decades of marriage.
Pastor Manjeri of Bethel Healing Centre Church recently accused Katongole of cheating on her with three women and siring children with the same.
Now, Dr Katongole has spoken out confirming that he and Manjeri have indeed separated and that he strayed.
“My friend, to separate with a wife is a personal issue and you do it for the good of a person. It’s true she was my wife, however, our marriage fell out many years back,” Katongole told a local newspaper.
In another interview, Katongole revealed that he left Manjeri years ago because of her bad behaviors.
That the powerful female pastor had turned him into a slave and that she had even locked him out.
“I officially divorced Manjeri in 2002/2003 after she treated me badly many times. I only returned to live with her after being counselled by a number of pastors. She’s a very different person at home from what she is on the pulpit. I had become a slave in the house and was tortured a lot,” revealed Katongole who now lives in Kisaasi.
“She ordered the security guard to lock me out of the house over 14 times just because I had returned home late. But I have businesses that I run and can’t be dancing on a woman’s fingertips.”
Katongole further claimed that Manjeri kept a gun at home, threatened him — and that connections to State House and with ex-IGP Kale Kayihura played a part.
“She doesn’t want to be criticized and even keeps a gun inside the house. Whenever we had arguments she would run to the room to pick it up and even used to threaten me about how she has connections to State House and the former IGP Kayihura.”
