An ongoing murder investigation in Uganda has revealed that Immaculate Mary Blessing Asio, kept a diary on how she was brutally tortured by family members.
Ms Asio, 62, was subjected to physical abuse, according to family and other individuals close to the investigation.
She was forced to shift to a rented property in Buziga, a Kampala suburb adjacent to their marital home in Munyonyo.
Her problems had been building for years, but they became more serious in December 2019, when she began chronicling the torture she had been subjected to at the hands of nameless family members.
She was the CEO of Pentagon Security Services Ltd, which employs up to 5,000 private security officers, according to reports. Asio also ran a business in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, from which she commuted on a daily basis.
Fear
The 62-year-old mother of one, who commuted to her other business in Nairobi on a regular basis, said she was afraid for her life.
“Every day I feel I am not safe yet in my own house. I know they don’t like me after my struggling (sic) as a housewife for all these years? Why do you hate me like this, my dear?” The diary reported.
She once moved away from her marital home to a rented house in Buziga, 7 kilometers south of Kampala, but returned after her husband, Francis Onebe, sought reconciliation with his in-laws and promised to modify his ways.
Though it’s unclear if she wrote the diary, Asio claimed that her Nairobi enterprises were giving her troubles with family members.
Mr Onebe, an auditor and co-owner of the security service, was apprehended by police and held for nearly a week on murder allegations without being arraigned in court beyond the constitutional 48-hour limit.
Mr Onebe, was apprehended amid accusations that he was planning to flee the country.
In all her personal documentation, which is now of interest for investigators, Ms Asio does not name the person(s) she believed to be after her life, but spoke of living without love at home and asking:
“What have I done that does not make you happy all the time? … God will always listen to my prayers. I love you God because you cannot be bribed.”
Rocky Start.
Police investigations revealed that the couple — that have one child from their relationship — have had ups and downs in their relationship since they met in 1982.
They divorced in 1993, and Mr Onebe relocated to Nairobi, Kenya, where he remained for several years.
He moved on and even found a new partner with whom he is said to have fathered four children.
Mr Onebe met a now-richer Immaculate Asio after a decade or so of operation in Kenya, and the two reconciled.
They formalized their relationship in early 2000, with Ms Asio introducing her then-fiancée to her parents in Kaberemaido District, eastern Uganda, and the love-struck couple finally married in the church.
Mr Onebe’s relatives maintained communication with the other woman in his life and their four children, resulting in tension, competition, and fights between the two families, according to police accounts.
