KAMPALA — Trouble is brewing in paradise! Word reaching Red Pepper Online is that the once-sweet love story between Former Uganda’s Deputy Ambassador to Washington DC and Sudan, Dickson Ogwang, and his Parliament staffer wife Ranny Ismael has hit stormy waters. According to well-placed family moles, all is not well in the couple’s marital villa, and whispers around both families suggest the two lovebirds are barely talking these days. Insiders reveal that friends and relatives have now resorted to serious prayer sessions, reciting the Holy Rosary day and night — pleading with Mother Mary to intercede and rescue the ambassador’s troubled marriage. The couple tied the knot in 2020, shortly after Ogwang officially parted ways with his first wife Miriam Pheona Atengo, the mother of his two children. But the honeymoon glow, sources say, has long faded. “These days they don’t even act like a married couple. You wouldn’t believe they share a roof,” whispered one concerned relative. Family elders from both sides are said to be working overtime to mediate and cool tempers, but the pair reportedly still have serious reservations about reconciliation. The cause of the current storm remains unclear — but tongues are wagging that history may be repeating itself, given that Ogwang’s first marriage also ended amid allegations of domestic wrangles. As the rosaries continue to roll and candles burn, Red Pepper joins family and friends in praying that the ambassador’s love ship doesn’t sink again. In January 2018, the international scene was covered by stories of a Ugandan Diplomat who had allegedly battered his wife to a pulp. The incident had happened at the Diplomat’s Residence in Washington DC, United States of America. At the same time, Uganda was battling cases of her Former envoys to the United Nations and Canada who had also battered their women. One thing is clear, for every Diplomatic gender based violence, it had to relate to the issue of a side woman, and for Ambassador Dickson Ogwang, it took no exceptions. In a television interview, Ogwang’s wife Miriam Pheona Otengo shocked the nation when she revealed series of sexual violence that had rocked her marriage with Ogwang, accusing the later of using her as a sex toy.