Recently it was reported by the Ugandan media that the Editor-in-Chief of the New Vision Els Temmerman, a Belgian national, had resigned from the company.

Radio Katwe reported that she had been 'sacked' by President Yoweri Museveni. The part of being sacked is correct but little did we know that we were wrong about who had caused her to be sacked. The prime mover was not Museveni as we reported.

According to solid and accurate information we have now got, the person who ordered the sacking of Temmerman was none other than the powerful First Lady of Uganda, Janet Keinembabazi Kataha Museveni.

The details, according to sources close to the dealings in State House, are that there was friction originally between Museveni and his wife over Els' appointment. From close sources, Janet started suspecting (correctly or wrongly we don't know) that Museveni's relationship with Temmerman was straying into unusually 'intimate' territory.

Whether her fears were justified or she was just being paranoid we do not yet know, but it was enough for her to pull strings and get the editor 'resigning'.

Janet has her reasons for suspecting M7 over that type of thing, it is well known that only a mad person can accuse her husband of practising zero grazing. Now we hear that Temmerman talked to Museveni and Museveni put her back on the job. So any time from now, you might hear Els is back at work at the New Vision.

It won't be the first time skirts of western women connected to the New Vision have been ruffled. Some of you in the know will recall that some time before the Rwandese refugees invaded Rwanda in 1990, Catherine Watson, the wife of the then New Vision Editor in Chief, William Pike, was on extremely good terms with Major General Fred Rwigyema (RIP).

Incidentally after the RPF captured power, the man who had taken over from the fallen Rwigyema, then Vice President Paul Kagame had according to close aides, more quality face time than could be officially explained with one Susan Rice, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affiars under President Bill Clinton.

So wives of powerful men can be forgiven for being suspicious for no good reason.