The first time she hit the headlines in a notorious manner was when news filtered one morning five years ago that an assistantminister had beaten up her husband. To the rest of the country, this was just the salacious gossip of the powerful and mighty going through the shame of domestic violence.
But to Elizabeth Ongoro and her husband Ferdinand Masha, it was an unwelcome intrusion into their privacy; a lie concocted by outsiders and spread by a willing media keen to serve a great story to a ready public.