First watch:
Nodding disease: Cure unknown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOuDEYd1aZs&feature=relmfu
Disabling Nodding disease high in Northern districts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-DbeA1ISns
First read:
Testing biological weapons on Ugandan Guinea pigs: Deadly Ebola virus breaks out in Luweero(Uganda)
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2011/05/testing-biological-weapons-on-ugandan.html
LUWEERO EBOLA VICTIM FREQUENTED FOREST: OH! REALLY
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2011/05/luweero-ebola-victim-frequented-forest.html
THE DRUG EPIDEMIC, VIRUSES,
EBOLA, AND AIDS
[IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK!]
http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000081.htm
Witccraft and the Paranormal
http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000310.htm
My analysis
This disease is not caused by God. It has nothing to do with demon possession. It has to do with testing either drugs or biological weapons. A place like northern Uganda which has experienced war for over 20 years is a fertile ground for testing drugs by pharmaceutical companies and biological weapons, simply because the rule of law virtually breaks down. Unfortunately the people we call on for help are part of the deal. According to the daily monitor.
‘’The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says the cause, mode of spread and cure for the disease still remains a mystery. According to current CDC findings, test results show no association with food, environment, occupational and water exposures as some reports have indicated. This observation rules out reports that children in the affected areas were drinking dirty river water, relied on relief food during the war and reports that fall-out from munitions used during the LRA war could have caused it. For now, the already affected children are sentenced to death by the disease. “The children definitely die with it – it’s not rapidly progressive, but it seems to take hold of them. The nodding is in fact a type of seizure which causes damage on the brain,” said Dr Scott Dowell, CDC lead investigator, in an interview with the Center for Global Health policy, United States’’. (http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1329170/-/b0pd91z/-/index.html)
Nodding disease: Top US scientist jets in
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/629080-nodding-disease-top-us-scientist-jets-in.html
Publish Date: Feb 17,
A US-based lead investigator of the nodding disease has arrived in Uganda hoping to find more clues to the puzzling epileptic epidemic that has so far affected 3000 children.
Dr. Scott Dowell told journalists on Thursday that the numerous tests done at the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, USA have not revealed much about the disease.
He said, however, that two strong leads being followed are the connection to the river blindness (onchocerciasis) and low serum concentration.
Serum is the component of blood which does not contain the white and red blood cells or the clotting factor.
Medical information describes serum as the blood component which includes all the proteins not used in blood clotting (coagulation) and all electrolytes, anti-bodies, antigens and hormones. The substance is used in many diagnostic tests as well as blood typing.
The affected children get stunted, malnourished, dehydrated and mental retardation in addition to nodding which, the doctors say is actually “a series of seizures.”
Several of the victims have died, according to Dr. Anthony Mbonye, the Commissioner for Health Services in the Ministry of Health, but that the number of deaths has not been ascertained yet.
Dr. Dowel who is the CDC's director of the Division of Global Disease Detection said that tests have ruled out close to three dozen causes for the severe seizure disorder including a big number of viruses. But he observed that there was low Vitamin B6 detected.
He dismissed speculation that the disease could be connected to the chemicals in the gun powder that could have been used during the insurgency in the north. He also said that there is no evidence that the disease is communicable.
The studies on the disease started in 2009 when the Government of Uganda asked the CDC to help test the disease, according to Dr. Dowell.
The initial results showed no connection with the hypothesized environmental, food occupational and water exposures. There was also no connection to exposure to munitions and crushed roots, he said
The medic said that though the tests have not yielded clear leads to the disease, he and his team are here [Uganda] to help the Ministry of Health treat the affected people and also carry out more research. The affected people, over 95% of whom are children aged 5 to 15, will also be treated with epileptic drugs.
In addition to the anti-convalescents, the doctors will treat the other symptoms as more research on the disease goes on.
He noted that some other studies have indicated that epilepsy is on the raise in northern Uganda.
According to Dr. Mbonye, other scientists engaged in different environmental and health research are to be commissioned to carry out further studies in their different fields in the affected areas in a bid to unravel the disease's mystery.
Could mysterious nodding disease in Africa have global implications?
Debra Black Staff Reporter
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1121730--could-mysterious-nodding-disease-in-africa-have-global-implications
Nodding syndrome — a disease with epileptic-type symptoms prevalent in parts of northern Uganda — is a medical mystery that is confounding medical researchers and scientists alike.
The disease causes young children and adolescents to nod violently in an apparent seizure. It happens frequently throughout the day, including when they eat.
Over the past year there has been a growing outbreak in northern Uganda, specifically in Kitgum, Pader and Gulu. It is believed that thousands of cases have developed, but officials from the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have only been able to confirm a couple hundred.
A team from the Atlanta-based health organization is returning to Uganda in February to consult with local officials about a treatment trial.
Some researchers have suggested the disease may be linked to river blindness, which also affects all three communities.
River blindness, carried in bacteria inside a nematode worm known as onchocerca volvulus, is transmitted to humans by a bite from a black fly infected with the worm. The disease affects 18 million people, mostly in Africa.
The worms burrow into the skin, reproduce and release millions of offspring that spread throughout the body. After they die, they trigger a severe immune inflammatory response in the body which causes vision loss and severe itching.
It isn’t clear how it is related to nodding syndrome, researchers admit. At the moment all they know is there is an association between the two diseases.
History of Syndrome
The first cases of nodding syndrome — or descriptions of what could have been the disease — date back to the early 1960s in Tanzania, said Scott Dowell, director of Global Disease Detection and Emergency Response for the CDC, in a phone interview with the Star.
Over the past decade, clusters of the disease have popped up in South Sudan and Uganda. The onset in Uganda seems to have begun in 2003 with several thousand cases in Kitgum, Dowell said.
The disease appears to strike most children and adolescents between ages 5 and 15. Children appear healthy until about age 5 and then they begin having strange head-bobbing episodes.
Dowell describes it as a kind of perpetual motion, with the head constantly nodding up and down as if to say yes.
The nodding outbreaks differ in individuals, according to Dowell. In some patients it happens every few minutes. In other cases, it happens only three or four times a week. In many cases it makes eating and drinking difficult.
Those who experience it often appear disoriented and not aware of their surroundings when it’s happening, he explained. “It’s very unusual. There is nothing like this anywhere else in the world.”
It is 40 to 100 times more common than epilepsy, he added.
Causes and treatments?
Researchers had hypothesized it might be caused by a new viral encephalitis, but that didn’t bear any fruit. They also thought perhaps it was a prion disease — such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease — but they have ruled that out, as well.
Now scientists are betting on the possibility that nodding syndrome is associated with river blindness. In all three CDC investigations so far, said Dowell, researchers have found an association.
Children and adolescents with the disease are more likely to have antibodies against river blindness and were more likely to be exposed to it. But scientists don’t know how river blindness transforms itself into nodding syndrome.
None of the children or adolescents who suffer from nodding syndrome recover. “Once they have it, it is forever,” said Dowell. It is very debilitating — they can’t eat, they are malnourished and they have cognitive problems, so they drop out of school and become totally dependent on their parents and the community, Dowell said.
Currently, sufferers are being treated with anti-epileptic medications and family members report the children are experiencing some relief.
The CDC has also recommended that they be treated for river blindness and malnutrition.
Global Significance
“Because we don’t know what causes it or its transmission routes, we don’t know what implications it may have for the rest of the world,” said Dowell.
Some diseases in Africa are local and others turn out to be globally important. He cites as an example “slim disease” — a wasting disease in West Africa. “It turned out to have been caused by HIV before HIV was discovered.”
In the case of nodding syndrome “we don’t know the implications of this for the rest of the world,” Dowell said. “It’s quite clear it has huge implications for those living in Kitgum district in Uganda, but it could turn out to have just as huge implications for the rest of the world.”
Govt Offers Condolences Over Nodding Disease
By Sheila Naturinda, The Monitor, 8 February 2012
The government yesterday fell short of apologising to the people of northern Uganda over the nodding disease, only offering condolences and promised to present a comprehensive report before Parliament today.
The deputy leader of government business, Gen. Moses Ali, acknowledged that the situation was 'mysterious' but said he had asked Health Minister Christine Ondoa to explain and answer all demands made by the political leaders of the Acholi sub-region districts where children are affected.
"We accept that the disease has been mysterious. We offer our condolences to the victims and promise to address this House tomorrow (today) on the disease; other matters we shall discuss then," Gen. Ali said.
For the second time in less than two months, the MPs from northern Uganda had demanded that their area be declared a disaster area or else they ferry all children affected by the disease to Kampala.
"We can see that northern Uganda has been ignored. We need action now," said Ms Beatrice Anywar, the Kitgum Woman MP.
"Our children are tied to trees like goats to avoid them falling into fires and hurting themselves," Ms Ms Anywar said.
The mysterious disease was first reported in the Acholi-sub region in 1997.
There are currently more than 3,000 children affected and more than 200 deaths registered at the local health facilities.
Demands
Among the demands of Acholi MPs tabled before Parliament yesterday are: declaring Acholi sub-region a disaster area, having a comprehensive report, creating of mobile clinics, a full budget channeled to the areas, and intensifying research to discover the name and cause of the disease.
In January, Ministry of Health set its third deadline to roll out a comprehensive action plan on nodding disease. This could be the report Dr Ondoa will present to the Parliament today.
Kamya: Government Shs7b nodding disease plan a sham
By AGATHA AYEBAZIBWE & JAMES ERIKU
Posted Tuesday, February 14 2012 at 00:00
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1327144/-/b0qqxwz/-/index.html
Opposition politician Beti Kamya has questioned government’s claim that it has completed a Shs7b plan to manage the nodding disease that has caused misery in several Acholi districts.
Writing to the Speaker of Parliament yesterday, the Uganda Federal Alliance president said the statement by junior health minister Richard Nduhura to MPs that government had completed a Shs7 billion plan to manage the disease contained glaring contradictions.
She wondered, for example, how the minister could claim the plan had been shared with the Acholi Parliamentary Group, yet Kitgum Woman MP Beatrice Anywar, whose constituency is worst-hit, was clueless about the plan.
Ms Kamya also wondered how the ministry could have come up with a plan yet medical officials in the affected districts of Kitgum, Pader and Lamwo were ignorant of these arrangements.
“Madam Speaker, is it possible that the Ministry of Health put together a Shs7 billion plan without the participation and knowledge of the Director of Medical Services & DMO? If not, then the plan started after January 25 and by February 9, it had been long completed and even shared with development partners! Is that feasible?” writes Ms Kamya.
She adds: “Madam Speaker, I do not find the minister’s statement credible or convincing and the country already smells a Global Fund / GAVI-like scandal in the making, which we must not allow,” wrote Ms Kamaya. “I therefore petition Parliament, in the spirit of transparency, to order the Ministry of Health to immediately table before parliament, and get published in the media, the very plan that Hon. Nduhura claims.” More than 3,000 children are affected by the disease which has so far killed about 200 victims.
Low school turn up
And as the politicians jostle, our survey in the affected districts reveals that most primary schools in the affected districts have registered low turn up for the new term as many parents opt to keep away their children from social gatherings including church services.
In Pader, where 2,500 children are said to have contracted the disease, official statistics from the education department put the number of pupils not going to school since the term began at 700.
Mr Obol Okidi, the district education officer, said many children suffer general body weakness while others are mentally retarded, affecting their ability to attend school.
His counterpart in Kitgum, Mr Okwee Okaka said at least 221 children have dropped out of school in his district especially in Amida, Akwang and Lagoro sub-counties.
Logistical limitations are also crippling response services. The Pader health boss, Dr Janet Oola, whose district has more than 2,000 confirmed cases of nodding disease, said only two of the four ambulances are functional.In Lamwo District, most of the 800 cases reported are in border sub-counties-most about 40 kilometres away from Padibe Town Council where the district hospital is located.
The district health officer, Dr Charles Oyoo, said he had informed the public not to rely the district’s ambulance because it is strained serving all the sub-counties. Efforts to get more ambulances, he said, had bore no fruit. MP Anywar has accused government of negligence and playing hide-and-seek as the nodding disease continues to spread across the Acholi sub-region.
editorial@ug.nationmedia.com
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Monday, 30 January 2012
Wasting the Last Golden Chance to Accept the Lord Jesus Christ: Randy Pausch, 'Last Lecture' Professor
Wasting the Last Golden Chance to Accept the Lord Jesus Christ: Randy Pausch, 'Last Lecture' Professor
Pausch had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2006, and found out it was incurable in August 2007 after it had spread to other organs. He was given 6 months to live. Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer-science professor with terminal cancer whose "Last Lecture" became a YouTube sensation in late 2007, died early Friday morning. If you had been in his position, would you also deny Christ to the point of death. Would you also waste the Golden chance to preach about the love of Jesus and the fact that Jesus is the only way to heaven.
Randy Pausch Last Lecture on Oprah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVl8tj3Wf58&feature=related
Randy Pausch's; A Final Farewell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIysXLiA5s0&feature=related
Randy Pausch, 'Last Lecture' Professor Dies
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/randy-pausch-lecture-professor-dies/story?id=4614281#.Tyex8XoX5wE
By GEOFF MARTZ, SAMANTHA WENDER and CHRIS FRANCESCANI
July 25, 2008
Randy Pausch, the charismatic young college professor who chronicled his battle with pancreatic cancer in a remarkable speech widely-known as the "Last Lecture," has died at the age of 47. He was at home, surrounded by his wife, Jai, and his three children.
A dear friend to Diane Sawyer and "Good Morning America," Pausch's lecture and subsequent interview was one of the most powerful accounts of hope, grace and optimistism ABC News has ever featured, and drew a worldwide response.
"I'd like to thank the millions of people who have offered their love, prayers and support," Jai Pausch said in a statement. "Randy was so happy and proud that the lecture and book inspired parents to revisit their priorities, particularly their relationships with their children. The outpouring of cards and emails really sustained him."
It all began with one, age-old question: What would you say if you knew you were going to die and had a chance to sum up everything that was most important to you?
That question had been posed to the annual speaker of a lecture series at Carnegie Mellon University, where Pausch was a computer sciences professor. For Pausch, though, the question wasn't hypothetical.
Pausch, a father of three small children with his wife Jai, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer -- and given six months to live.
Friends and colleagues flew in from all around the country to attend his last lecture. And -- almost as an afterthought -- the lecture was videotaped and put on the Internet for the few people who couldn't get there that day.
That was all it took.
Somehow amid the vast clamor of the Web and the bling-bling of million-dollar budgets, savvy marketing campaigns and millions of strange and bizarre videos, the voice of one earnest professor standing at a podium and talking about his childhood dreams cut through the noise.
The lecture was so uplifting, so funny, so inspirational that it went viral. So far, 10 million people have downloaded it.
And thousands have written in to say that his lecture changed their lives.
If you had only six months to live, what would you do? How would you live your life? And how can all of us take heart from Pausch's inspiring message to live each day to its fullest?
Pausch's answers to these questions, both in the lecture and in three separate interviews over a series of months with Diane Sawyer, are moving, funny, thought-provoking and extraordinary.
According to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, an advocacy organization for the pancreatic cancer community, approximately 37,170 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2008 and 33,370 will die from it. The Pausch family has asked that donations on Randy's behalf be sent to the organization or to Carnegie Mellon's Randy Pausch Memorial Fund.
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and unlike other cancers, during the last 30 years the medical community has seen very little advancement in prolonging the lives of pancreatic cancer patients.
Pausch had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2006, and found out it was incurable in August 2007 after it had spread to other organs. He was given 6 months to live. Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer-science professor with terminal cancer whose "Last Lecture" became a YouTube sensation in late 2007, died early Friday morning. If you had been in his position, would you also deny Christ to the point of death. Would you also waste the Golden chance to preach about the love of Jesus and the fact that Jesus is the only way to heaven.
Randy Pausch Last Lecture on Oprah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVl8tj3Wf58&feature=related
Randy Pausch's; A Final Farewell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIysXLiA5s0&feature=related
Randy Pausch, 'Last Lecture' Professor Dies
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/randy-pausch-lecture-professor-dies/story?id=4614281#.Tyex8XoX5wE
By GEOFF MARTZ, SAMANTHA WENDER and CHRIS FRANCESCANI
July 25, 2008
Randy Pausch, the charismatic young college professor who chronicled his battle with pancreatic cancer in a remarkable speech widely-known as the "Last Lecture," has died at the age of 47. He was at home, surrounded by his wife, Jai, and his three children.
A dear friend to Diane Sawyer and "Good Morning America," Pausch's lecture and subsequent interview was one of the most powerful accounts of hope, grace and optimistism ABC News has ever featured, and drew a worldwide response.
"I'd like to thank the millions of people who have offered their love, prayers and support," Jai Pausch said in a statement. "Randy was so happy and proud that the lecture and book inspired parents to revisit their priorities, particularly their relationships with their children. The outpouring of cards and emails really sustained him."
It all began with one, age-old question: What would you say if you knew you were going to die and had a chance to sum up everything that was most important to you?
That question had been posed to the annual speaker of a lecture series at Carnegie Mellon University, where Pausch was a computer sciences professor. For Pausch, though, the question wasn't hypothetical.
Pausch, a father of three small children with his wife Jai, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer -- and given six months to live.
Friends and colleagues flew in from all around the country to attend his last lecture. And -- almost as an afterthought -- the lecture was videotaped and put on the Internet for the few people who couldn't get there that day.
That was all it took.
Somehow amid the vast clamor of the Web and the bling-bling of million-dollar budgets, savvy marketing campaigns and millions of strange and bizarre videos, the voice of one earnest professor standing at a podium and talking about his childhood dreams cut through the noise.
The lecture was so uplifting, so funny, so inspirational that it went viral. So far, 10 million people have downloaded it.
And thousands have written in to say that his lecture changed their lives.
If you had only six months to live, what would you do? How would you live your life? And how can all of us take heart from Pausch's inspiring message to live each day to its fullest?
Pausch's answers to these questions, both in the lecture and in three separate interviews over a series of months with Diane Sawyer, are moving, funny, thought-provoking and extraordinary.
According to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, an advocacy organization for the pancreatic cancer community, approximately 37,170 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2008 and 33,370 will die from it. The Pausch family has asked that donations on Randy's behalf be sent to the organization or to Carnegie Mellon's Randy Pausch Memorial Fund.
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and unlike other cancers, during the last 30 years the medical community has seen very little advancement in prolonging the lives of pancreatic cancer patients.
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Clerics told not to wed homosexual couples
Clerics told not to wed homosexual couples
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1313570/-/b1fywjz/-/index.html
By John Tugume
Posted Wednesday, January 25 2012 at 00:00
Church leaders under their association of Born Again Faith Federation insist fellow clerics should not wed any gay couples should government give in to donor pressure to drop the proposed Anti-homosexuality Bill.
Dr Joseph Serwadda, the leader of the federation, said recently that there are signs that the government will be “forced to soften on the demands by the gay movement” in order to throw away the already-shelved Bill which was brought forward by Ndorwa West MP David Bahati.
“The church needs to be assured that government will stand its ground, and this evil be kept where it belongs – in the secret closets of those who practice it,” Dr Serwadda told this newspaper.
The Marriage Act of 1904 does not provide for same-sex marriage.
The comments come at the same time former South African president Thabo Mbeki said the anti-gay proposed law does not make any sense.
Recently, US President Barack Obama and the UK warned they would use foreign aid and asylum conditionalities to push for homosexuality to be decriminalised in Uganda and other “conservative countries”.
Uganda relies heavily on the US, receiving military help to fight the Lord’s Resistance Army and has sent troops to Somalia to fight the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group.
When contacted, the Bill’s architect, Mr Bahati, said late last year: “Our position as a country is clear. Our Constitution prohibits homosexuality and we are not in a trade of values.”
Mr Bahati also advised Mr Mbeki to first read and understand his Bill.
“The Bill was brought to curb a several issues including inducement, recruitment and funding homosexuality. His excellency (Mr Mbeki) needs to read the Bill and understand the spirit in which it was brought and the context in which we are talking about,” Mr Bahati said.
jtugume@ug.nationmedia.com
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1313570/-/b1fywjz/-/index.html
By John Tugume
Posted Wednesday, January 25 2012 at 00:00
Church leaders under their association of Born Again Faith Federation insist fellow clerics should not wed any gay couples should government give in to donor pressure to drop the proposed Anti-homosexuality Bill.
Dr Joseph Serwadda, the leader of the federation, said recently that there are signs that the government will be “forced to soften on the demands by the gay movement” in order to throw away the already-shelved Bill which was brought forward by Ndorwa West MP David Bahati.
“The church needs to be assured that government will stand its ground, and this evil be kept where it belongs – in the secret closets of those who practice it,” Dr Serwadda told this newspaper.
The Marriage Act of 1904 does not provide for same-sex marriage.
The comments come at the same time former South African president Thabo Mbeki said the anti-gay proposed law does not make any sense.
Recently, US President Barack Obama and the UK warned they would use foreign aid and asylum conditionalities to push for homosexuality to be decriminalised in Uganda and other “conservative countries”.
Uganda relies heavily on the US, receiving military help to fight the Lord’s Resistance Army and has sent troops to Somalia to fight the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group.
When contacted, the Bill’s architect, Mr Bahati, said late last year: “Our position as a country is clear. Our Constitution prohibits homosexuality and we are not in a trade of values.”
Mr Bahati also advised Mr Mbeki to first read and understand his Bill.
“The Bill was brought to curb a several issues including inducement, recruitment and funding homosexuality. His excellency (Mr Mbeki) needs to read the Bill and understand the spirit in which it was brought and the context in which we are talking about,” Mr Bahati said.
jtugume@ug.nationmedia.com
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Uganda Pentecostal pastors threaten to go to the streets to protest police allegation over Pastor Mulinde’s acid attack
First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
In their meeting that took place in Kawempe, Pastor David Kiganda, the senior pastor of Christianity Focus centre gave the Uganda Police an Ultimatum of two weeks to produce a recording that implicates Pentecostal pastors in Pastor Mulinde’s acid attack or else they take to the streets. The Uganda Police has recently intimated that it has a recoding of a 2010 pastor’s meeting, in which some pastors threatened to cause harm to Pastor Mulinde . The police alleges that the pastors were hungry with Mulinde’s monopoly of the Israel pilgrimage business. It must be noted that Mulinde takes pilgrims to Israel every year and charges little fares as compared to other pastors. This according to the police hungered some pastors so much that they decided to pour acid on Mulinde.
My analysis
The allegations of the Ugandan Police that Pastors are behind Mulinde’s acid attack are indeed bogus. The Uganda government is hiding the truth in this case in order to avert a conflict between Muslims and Pentecostals in Uganda. The government is only afraid that this incident might fuel more division and conflict between Muslims and Pentecostals. The conduct of the Ugandan Police is quite similar to the one where American forces burned bibles in Afghanistan to avoid offending Muslims.
Military burns unsolicited Bibles sent to Afghanistan
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-05-20/world/us.military.bibles.burned_1_bibles-al-jazeera-english-military-personnel?_s=PM:WORLD
Military burns Bibles sent to troops in Afghanistan
http://www.examiner.com/christian-in-louisville/military-burns-bibles-sent-to-troops-afghanistan#ixzz1f4yklBBN
Abasumba balumbye poliisi ku bya Mulinde
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/news/61158-Abasumba-balumbye-poliisi-ku-bya-Mulinde.html
Jan 11, 2012
Bya Moses Lemisa
ABASUMBA b’Abalokole batabukidde poliisi ne bagiwa wiiki emu eveeyo ebalage akatambi akalaga nti mubo mwe muli abaayiira Mulinde asidi singa tekikolebwa bagenda kukunga Abalokole beeyiwe ku nguudo z’omu Kampala beekalakaase.
Abasumba bano abaakulembeddwa omusumba David Kiganda ow’Ekkanisa ya Focus Centre mu Kisenyi, bino babyogeredde mu lukiiko olwatudde ku Kkanisa ya Trinity e Kawempe ku Lwokubiri ne basaba Kayihura asitukiremu mu bwangu ku nsonga ya Mulinde.
Kiganda yagambye nti Poliisi yavaayo ku mikutu gy’amawulire n’etegeeza nti abaayiira Mulinde asidi baali basumba kyokka n’okutuusa kati terina n’omu gwe yali ekutte.
Yawagiddwa abasumba abawerako okwabadde Godfrey Luwaga owa City of Lord ku Kaleerwe n’abalala abasoba 50 abeetabye mu lukiiko luno.
Kiganda yategeezezza nga Mulinde bwe yaggyiddwa e Buyindi n’atwalibwa mu Yisirayiri mu ddwaaliro lya Teller Vvi e Sheba ku Lwokutaano lwa wiiki wedde kyokka eddwaaliro ly’e Buyindi lyasigadde libanja omutwalo gwa doola.
Wabula omwogezi wa Poliisi mu Kampala, Ibin Ssenkumbi yategeezezza nti ensonga z’omusumba Mulinde zaakwasibwa ekitongole eky’enjawulo ekinoonyereza ku buzzi bw’emisango ekikulirwa Binoga.
‘Eby’okuyiira Mulinde asidi birimu abasumba’
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/news/60875--Eby-okuyiira-Mulinde-asidi-birimu-abasumba-.html
Dec 29, 2011
Bya Robert Mutebi
POLIISI ezudde obujulizi ku kuyiira Paasita Umar Mulinde asidi nga ke katambi okuli amaloboozi n’ebyateesebwa abasumba mu lukiiko olw’ekyama.
Akatambi kano akaasomoddwa bambega ba poliisi kyokka nga kaliko n’abasumba abaakafunyeeko kkopi kaliko byonna ebyateesebwa abasumba 10 abaasisinkana n’abo abaalina okukola ‘misoni’ y’okutuusa obulabe ku Paasita Mulinde ow’ekkanisa ya Gospel Life Church International e Namasuba mu kafo akamu mu 2010.
Mulinde abamu ku basumba banne bamulanga kubayingirira mu ddiiru y’okutwala bantu okulamaga e Yisirayiri gye yayingiramu gye buvuddeko n’ayitimuka nnyo ssaako okuwaliriza abaamusookamu bamu okugyabulira nga tekyabakolera.
Omu ku basumba b’abalokole bano ataayagadde kumwatuuukiriza mmanya yakkirizza nga Mulinde bw’abadde yabawambako ekintu ng’abalokole abasinga abaagala okugenda okulamaga mu bifo ebitukuvu e Yisirayiri bagenda wuwe gye bayitira.
“Ekisooka yalaba obunafu bw’abasumba banaffe abaasooka mu kintu nga balina omulugube gw’ensimbi n’okunyaga abantu ye n’avaayo n’amazima naddala mu by’ensimbi. Emiwendo gye gibadde wansi ddala era y’emu ku nsonga lwaki abadde yeeyunirwa nnyo,” bwe yategeezezza.
Mu nteekateeka y’Omusumba Mulinde, abagenda e Yisirayiri yabasabye ddoola 2000 (ze za Uganda 5,000,000/-) nga buli kimu kiwedde era nga baakukolera ku byetaago byonna omuli viza, entambula, ebyokulya, okusula n’ebirala. Abalala babadde basaba abantu ssente eziri wakti wa ddoola 2,500 ne 3,000 ate nga babakolera ku ntambula, viza ne yinsuwa ebirala ne beerabirira.
Mu mbeera eno, ensonda ziraga ng’abamu ku basumba bwe kitaabayisa bulungi kwe kusalawo okumutuusaako obulabe nga mu lukiiko lw’abasumba 10 omwali n’abalina okutuukiriza ddiiru basooka kusalawo kumutomeza mmotoka.
Wabula kigambibwa nti olukwe luno lwagwa butaka oluvannyuma lw’omu ku bannaabwe okugaana okukkaanya nabo. Kigambibwa nti ekirowoozo kya asidi kyajja luvannyuma lwa kulemesebwa kwa ddiiru yaakumutomeza mmotoka eyali esoose okukolebwa.
Mulinde ku ntandikwa y’omwaka guno yakuba olukung’aana olunene mu kisaawe e Nakivubo n’akunga abantu okweyunira kampeyini ye ey’okugenda okulamaga e Yisirayiri era ng’omwezi gwa October, November ne December omwaka guno abadde akuba enkung’aana ez’amaanyi mu bifo eby’enjawulo gy’abadde abuulirira enjiri n’okukunga abantu ku ky’okugenda e Yisirayiri.
Ku miryango egiyingira mu kkanisa ya Mulinde wajjuziddwa ebipande ebiraga ebifo ebitukuvu mu ggwanga lya Yisirayiri era nga kuliko n’ekifaananyi kya Mulinde wamu n’ebigambo ebikunga abantu okumwegattako.
Omutume Mulinde ayogedde
Mulinde ng’asinziira ku kitanda gy’ajjanjabirwa mu ddwaaliro lya Kampala International Hospital e Namuwongo yakkirizza nga bw’abadde ategese okutwala abantu abasukka mu mutwalo e Yisirayiri okulamaga omwaka guno n’agamba nti abamu yasoose na kubabuulira njiri ne balokoka.
“Kituufu ntambudde mu bifo bingi nga mbuulira enjiri era abantu bangi balokose naye era mu kino mbadde ntegeeza abantu ku ky’okulamaga e Yisirayiri era nga bangi bakkirizza okugenda nange,” Mulinde bwe yategeezezza.
Ensonda mu basumba b’abalokole zaategeezezza nga ddiiru y’okutwala abantu e Yisirayiri bw’efuna emirundu ebiri anti n’Abayisirayiri babaako engeri gye basiimamu oyo yenna atutteyo abantu abangi.
Akulira abasumba ky’agamba
Omusumba David Kiganda akulira abalokole mu kitundu kya Kampala mu kibiina ekibagatta ekya National Fellowship Of Born Again Pentecostal Churches of Uganda yagambye nti bataddewo ekirabo kya bukadde 20 eri asobola okubawa amawulire agabatuusa ku yakoze ettemu lino.
“Bannaffe bwe baba bavuddeyo ne bawa obujulizi nga buno kirungi nnyo era tubasaba babututuseeko naye nga bamanyi ssi bwakutujja ku mulamwa.Mulina amawulire amalungi naye tusabe gabeere nga tegatujja ku mulamwa”Kiganda bwe yategeezezza.
Yagasseeko nti: Mulinde kituufu abadde n’abalabe abamuyigganya okumla ekiseera naye abamu bamanyiddwa kubanga babadde bamulabula okumala ekiseera. Bwe wabaayo abalala ababeegattako ekyo kirala kubanga abasumba bangi abatwala abantu mu Yisirayiri.
Omusumba John Mulinde owa Prayer Mountain ku luguudo lw’ e Ntebe atwala abalamazi ebweru, Omusumba Oyet abatwala, nange ntegeka kubatwala mwaka gujja ate n’abalala bangi ababatwala n’olwekyo kino kiraga nti ssi muntu omu oba babiri abakirimu, basumba bangi abali mu ky’okutwala abantu e Yisirayiri.
Basumba ki abanoonyerezebwako?
Ensonda mu bambega zaagambye nti Abasumba abaali mu lukwe luno bataano ku bbo balina amakanisa ku luguudo lw’ e Ntebe, omu ali ku luguudo lw’e Gayaza, babiri bali mu Ggombolola y’e Lubaga, omu mu Makindye ate omulala yategeezezza nga bwe yeerimbika mu busumba kyokka nga mupanzi wa ddiiru atalina kkanisa ntongole okuggyako okubuna amakanisa gonna nga bw’abeera asanze.
Kigambibwa nti mu lukiiko abasumba bano lwe batuuza ku Pope Paul e Lubaga mu October 2010 okulonda obukulembeze mu kitundu kino abamu mwe baalagira obukyayi eri Paasita Mulinde mu lujjudde.
POLIISI BY’EGAMBA
Omwogezi wa poliisi mu Kampala n’emiriraano Ibn Senkumbi yategeezezza Bukedde nga bwe bali ku kaweefube w’okufuna obujulizi bwonna obwetaagisa okuva mu buli muntu era nga buno bwakubayamba okuzuula omutuufu eyayokya Mulinde asidi.
“Tetulina muntu yenna gwe tujja kutaliza, buli alina amawulire agayinza okutuyambako tumwaniriza era n’abo abasumba abavuddeyo okulokooma bannaabwe tulina kukolagana nabo bulungi kubanga batuyamba ku kunoonyereza kwaffe,” Senkumbi bwe yategeezezza.
Yagambye nti obujulizi poliisi bwe yaakafuna ssaako bwe yeeyongera okufuna mu kiseera kino bubawadde essuubi ly’okutuuka ku bantu abatuufu abaayokya omusumba.
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
In their meeting that took place in Kawempe, Pastor David Kiganda, the senior pastor of Christianity Focus centre gave the Uganda Police an Ultimatum of two weeks to produce a recording that implicates Pentecostal pastors in Pastor Mulinde’s acid attack or else they take to the streets. The Uganda Police has recently intimated that it has a recoding of a 2010 pastor’s meeting, in which some pastors threatened to cause harm to Pastor Mulinde . The police alleges that the pastors were hungry with Mulinde’s monopoly of the Israel pilgrimage business. It must be noted that Mulinde takes pilgrims to Israel every year and charges little fares as compared to other pastors. This according to the police hungered some pastors so much that they decided to pour acid on Mulinde.
My analysis
The allegations of the Ugandan Police that Pastors are behind Mulinde’s acid attack are indeed bogus. The Uganda government is hiding the truth in this case in order to avert a conflict between Muslims and Pentecostals in Uganda. The government is only afraid that this incident might fuel more division and conflict between Muslims and Pentecostals. The conduct of the Ugandan Police is quite similar to the one where American forces burned bibles in Afghanistan to avoid offending Muslims.
Military burns unsolicited Bibles sent to Afghanistan
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-05-20/world/us.military.bibles.burned_1_bibles-al-jazeera-english-military-personnel?_s=PM:WORLD
Military burns Bibles sent to troops in Afghanistan
http://www.examiner.com/christian-in-louisville/military-burns-bibles-sent-to-troops-afghanistan#ixzz1f4yklBBN
Abasumba balumbye poliisi ku bya Mulinde
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/news/61158-Abasumba-balumbye-poliisi-ku-bya-Mulinde.html
Jan 11, 2012
Bya Moses Lemisa
ABASUMBA b’Abalokole batabukidde poliisi ne bagiwa wiiki emu eveeyo ebalage akatambi akalaga nti mubo mwe muli abaayiira Mulinde asidi singa tekikolebwa bagenda kukunga Abalokole beeyiwe ku nguudo z’omu Kampala beekalakaase.
Abasumba bano abaakulembeddwa omusumba David Kiganda ow’Ekkanisa ya Focus Centre mu Kisenyi, bino babyogeredde mu lukiiko olwatudde ku Kkanisa ya Trinity e Kawempe ku Lwokubiri ne basaba Kayihura asitukiremu mu bwangu ku nsonga ya Mulinde.
Kiganda yagambye nti Poliisi yavaayo ku mikutu gy’amawulire n’etegeeza nti abaayiira Mulinde asidi baali basumba kyokka n’okutuusa kati terina n’omu gwe yali ekutte.
Yawagiddwa abasumba abawerako okwabadde Godfrey Luwaga owa City of Lord ku Kaleerwe n’abalala abasoba 50 abeetabye mu lukiiko luno.
Kiganda yategeezezza nga Mulinde bwe yaggyiddwa e Buyindi n’atwalibwa mu Yisirayiri mu ddwaaliro lya Teller Vvi e Sheba ku Lwokutaano lwa wiiki wedde kyokka eddwaaliro ly’e Buyindi lyasigadde libanja omutwalo gwa doola.
Wabula omwogezi wa Poliisi mu Kampala, Ibin Ssenkumbi yategeezezza nti ensonga z’omusumba Mulinde zaakwasibwa ekitongole eky’enjawulo ekinoonyereza ku buzzi bw’emisango ekikulirwa Binoga.
‘Eby’okuyiira Mulinde asidi birimu abasumba’
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/news/60875--Eby-okuyiira-Mulinde-asidi-birimu-abasumba-.html
Dec 29, 2011
Bya Robert Mutebi
POLIISI ezudde obujulizi ku kuyiira Paasita Umar Mulinde asidi nga ke katambi okuli amaloboozi n’ebyateesebwa abasumba mu lukiiko olw’ekyama.
Akatambi kano akaasomoddwa bambega ba poliisi kyokka nga kaliko n’abasumba abaakafunyeeko kkopi kaliko byonna ebyateesebwa abasumba 10 abaasisinkana n’abo abaalina okukola ‘misoni’ y’okutuusa obulabe ku Paasita Mulinde ow’ekkanisa ya Gospel Life Church International e Namasuba mu kafo akamu mu 2010.
Mulinde abamu ku basumba banne bamulanga kubayingirira mu ddiiru y’okutwala bantu okulamaga e Yisirayiri gye yayingiramu gye buvuddeko n’ayitimuka nnyo ssaako okuwaliriza abaamusookamu bamu okugyabulira nga tekyabakolera.
Omu ku basumba b’abalokole bano ataayagadde kumwatuuukiriza mmanya yakkirizza nga Mulinde bw’abadde yabawambako ekintu ng’abalokole abasinga abaagala okugenda okulamaga mu bifo ebitukuvu e Yisirayiri bagenda wuwe gye bayitira.
“Ekisooka yalaba obunafu bw’abasumba banaffe abaasooka mu kintu nga balina omulugube gw’ensimbi n’okunyaga abantu ye n’avaayo n’amazima naddala mu by’ensimbi. Emiwendo gye gibadde wansi ddala era y’emu ku nsonga lwaki abadde yeeyunirwa nnyo,” bwe yategeezezza.
Mu nteekateeka y’Omusumba Mulinde, abagenda e Yisirayiri yabasabye ddoola 2000 (ze za Uganda 5,000,000/-) nga buli kimu kiwedde era nga baakukolera ku byetaago byonna omuli viza, entambula, ebyokulya, okusula n’ebirala. Abalala babadde basaba abantu ssente eziri wakti wa ddoola 2,500 ne 3,000 ate nga babakolera ku ntambula, viza ne yinsuwa ebirala ne beerabirira.
Mu mbeera eno, ensonda ziraga ng’abamu ku basumba bwe kitaabayisa bulungi kwe kusalawo okumutuusaako obulabe nga mu lukiiko lw’abasumba 10 omwali n’abalina okutuukiriza ddiiru basooka kusalawo kumutomeza mmotoka.
Wabula kigambibwa nti olukwe luno lwagwa butaka oluvannyuma lw’omu ku bannaabwe okugaana okukkaanya nabo. Kigambibwa nti ekirowoozo kya asidi kyajja luvannyuma lwa kulemesebwa kwa ddiiru yaakumutomeza mmotoka eyali esoose okukolebwa.
Mulinde ku ntandikwa y’omwaka guno yakuba olukung’aana olunene mu kisaawe e Nakivubo n’akunga abantu okweyunira kampeyini ye ey’okugenda okulamaga e Yisirayiri era ng’omwezi gwa October, November ne December omwaka guno abadde akuba enkung’aana ez’amaanyi mu bifo eby’enjawulo gy’abadde abuulirira enjiri n’okukunga abantu ku ky’okugenda e Yisirayiri.
Ku miryango egiyingira mu kkanisa ya Mulinde wajjuziddwa ebipande ebiraga ebifo ebitukuvu mu ggwanga lya Yisirayiri era nga kuliko n’ekifaananyi kya Mulinde wamu n’ebigambo ebikunga abantu okumwegattako.
Omutume Mulinde ayogedde
Mulinde ng’asinziira ku kitanda gy’ajjanjabirwa mu ddwaaliro lya Kampala International Hospital e Namuwongo yakkirizza nga bw’abadde ategese okutwala abantu abasukka mu mutwalo e Yisirayiri okulamaga omwaka guno n’agamba nti abamu yasoose na kubabuulira njiri ne balokoka.
“Kituufu ntambudde mu bifo bingi nga mbuulira enjiri era abantu bangi balokose naye era mu kino mbadde ntegeeza abantu ku ky’okulamaga e Yisirayiri era nga bangi bakkirizza okugenda nange,” Mulinde bwe yategeezezza.
Ensonda mu basumba b’abalokole zaategeezezza nga ddiiru y’okutwala abantu e Yisirayiri bw’efuna emirundu ebiri anti n’Abayisirayiri babaako engeri gye basiimamu oyo yenna atutteyo abantu abangi.
Akulira abasumba ky’agamba
Omusumba David Kiganda akulira abalokole mu kitundu kya Kampala mu kibiina ekibagatta ekya National Fellowship Of Born Again Pentecostal Churches of Uganda yagambye nti bataddewo ekirabo kya bukadde 20 eri asobola okubawa amawulire agabatuusa ku yakoze ettemu lino.
“Bannaffe bwe baba bavuddeyo ne bawa obujulizi nga buno kirungi nnyo era tubasaba babututuseeko naye nga bamanyi ssi bwakutujja ku mulamwa.Mulina amawulire amalungi naye tusabe gabeere nga tegatujja ku mulamwa”Kiganda bwe yategeezezza.
Yagasseeko nti: Mulinde kituufu abadde n’abalabe abamuyigganya okumla ekiseera naye abamu bamanyiddwa kubanga babadde bamulabula okumala ekiseera. Bwe wabaayo abalala ababeegattako ekyo kirala kubanga abasumba bangi abatwala abantu mu Yisirayiri.
Omusumba John Mulinde owa Prayer Mountain ku luguudo lw’ e Ntebe atwala abalamazi ebweru, Omusumba Oyet abatwala, nange ntegeka kubatwala mwaka gujja ate n’abalala bangi ababatwala n’olwekyo kino kiraga nti ssi muntu omu oba babiri abakirimu, basumba bangi abali mu ky’okutwala abantu e Yisirayiri.
Basumba ki abanoonyerezebwako?
Ensonda mu bambega zaagambye nti Abasumba abaali mu lukwe luno bataano ku bbo balina amakanisa ku luguudo lw’ e Ntebe, omu ali ku luguudo lw’e Gayaza, babiri bali mu Ggombolola y’e Lubaga, omu mu Makindye ate omulala yategeezezza nga bwe yeerimbika mu busumba kyokka nga mupanzi wa ddiiru atalina kkanisa ntongole okuggyako okubuna amakanisa gonna nga bw’abeera asanze.
Kigambibwa nti mu lukiiko abasumba bano lwe batuuza ku Pope Paul e Lubaga mu October 2010 okulonda obukulembeze mu kitundu kino abamu mwe baalagira obukyayi eri Paasita Mulinde mu lujjudde.
POLIISI BY’EGAMBA
Omwogezi wa poliisi mu Kampala n’emiriraano Ibn Senkumbi yategeezezza Bukedde nga bwe bali ku kaweefube w’okufuna obujulizi bwonna obwetaagisa okuva mu buli muntu era nga buno bwakubayamba okuzuula omutuufu eyayokya Mulinde asidi.
“Tetulina muntu yenna gwe tujja kutaliza, buli alina amawulire agayinza okutuyambako tumwaniriza era n’abo abasumba abavuddeyo okulokooma bannaabwe tulina kukolagana nabo bulungi kubanga batuyamba ku kunoonyereza kwaffe,” Senkumbi bwe yategeezezza.
Yagambye nti obujulizi poliisi bwe yaakafuna ssaako bwe yeeyongera okufuna mu kiseera kino bubawadde essuubi ly’okutuuka ku bantu abatuufu abaayokya omusumba.
Thursday, 5 January 2012
OH! Uganda the sick man of Africa: Corruption , corruption and More corruption : MPs want LC bike tycoon’s death probed
MPs want LC bike tycoon’s death probed
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/628188-628188-mps-want-lc-bike-tycoon-s-death-probed.html
Publish Date: Jan 06, 2012
By Henry Sekanjako
MPs have asked the Police to urgently institute a probe into the mysterious death of Asian businessman Mohinder Singh Chal, one of the directors of Amman Industrial Tools and Equipment Ltd (Aitel) the company at the center of the botched $1.7m (Sh4.7b) LC Bicycle deal.
Mohinder was on Sunday Morning found dead in his house number 17 situated on block L in the Bukoto Brown flats.
Addressing Journalists at Parliament, the MPs led by Bugweri County MP Abdu Katuntu demanded that government forms a commission of inquiry to investigate the circumstances under which Mohinder died.
“We want government to investigate how this man died. They are saying they found him with drugs which cannot kill someone,” Katuntu said.
The MPs threatened that if government fails to commission an inquiry into Mohinder’s death, they would table a motion in parliament for the formation of a committee to investigate the matter when parliament reconvenes early next month.
“You may find that people are trying to kill evidence. The struggle to fight corruption is worse off than fighting the Al shabaab. We demand that government immediately sets up a committee to investigate his death because he is the only person who had key evidence,” added Katuntu.
Mawokota South MP Kiyingi Bbossa who is also a member of the public service committee that was investigating the botched bicycle deal said it was prudent for the government to carry out investigations into Mohinder’s death and come up with a conclusive report to avoid unwanted suspicion by the public.
“It is not proper if somebody dies when investigations in which he is one of the key suspects are at a very crucial stage. I call upon government to look into the matter because people will get scared if we don’t find out what really killed the man,” added Rukungiri municipality MP also public service committee member Roland Mugume.
Youth Mp western Region Gerald Karuhanga said there was need to investigate the untimely death of Mohinder to enable both the government and the public understand whether they was any underhand cause to his death.
“The ‘mafia’ groups have all the monies in the world, they can use it to kill evidence and investigations into the botched bicycle deal so we should have investigations into his death,” Karuhanga added.
Preliminary investigations into Mohinder’s death have indicated that he died of a blood clot. Upon his death his body was taken to Mulago hospital for a post-mortem examination which police ruled out any foul play in his death.
LCs Bicycle Company Dished Out Sh4.7 Billion in Two Days
Joyce Namutebi and Catherine Bekunda
The New Vision, 22 September 2011
OVER $1.7m (about sh4.7b) that was paid to a company contracted to supply bicycles for LC leaders was withdrawn from Stanbic Bank in two days.
The money was then reportedly wired to accounts in different countries, including India and Hong Kong.
This was disclosed by the Stanbic's legal head, Gertrude Wamala, while appearing before the public service and local government committee of Parliament yesterday.
She represented the managing director, who had been summoned to clarify the bank's role in the transaction. The summons followed accusations by the former head of procurement in the Ministry of Local Government, Robert Mwebaze, that the bank gave a "fake" bill of lading.
Wamala told MPs that the company account was credited with over sh4.7b on March 15, 2011. However, on the same day, various money transfers were made from the account.
A total of $240,000 was paid to a middleman, Patrick Bagarukayo, who also received another $100,000 on March 16. The document she presented also indicated that there was a cash withdrawal of $20,050 to Mohinder Singh Chal (Kenyan).
It further shows that $600,000 went to Infinity Exim Fze in Hong Kong. Other recipients were Wuyi Trade ($400,000), Vinsara Impex ($110,000) and Nishita Maina (Ugandan) who received $150,000.
The account, she explained, was opened on August 26, 2010 and was to be operated by Chal and Maini, but on September 2, 2010 the mandate was amended to introduce a new signatory, Arjunan Rajasekaran.
About the withdrawals, she said: "We have no responsibility with the supplier. If you take on other people's roles you become liable."
The MPs also summoned the directors of Amman industrial tools and Equipment Limited to explain why the bicycles had not been delivered, but only one of them, Mohinder Singh Chal appeared yesterday.
Chal told MPs that he left the firm before the money was paid on March 15.
Whoever embezzled LC bicycle money should pay
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/30006-whoever-embezzled-lc-bicycle-money-should-pay.html
Publish Date: Nov 15, 2011
By Moses Balyeku
LAST month, Parliament received a report of the Committee on Public Service and Local Government in regard to the investigation into failure to procure and deliver bicycles for villages and parish councils by the ministry of Local Government.
During the investigations on June 20 when the line minister Adolf appeared before the committee he informed its members that although the ministry had paid $ 1,719,454.58 representing 40% of the purchase price for the 70,000 bicycles up to then no bicycles had been supplied yet the supplier had a contractual obligation to meet the schedule on March 25.
It is a pity that some technocrats in the Ministry of Local Government who were charged with this responsibility behaved the way they did.
Ironically, for these technocrats, the Government periodically allocates them four wheel drive cars, their fuel cards are credited promptly by the ministry’s accountant together with corresponding hefty travel allowances. One would expect that such a person who is treated that way would have sympathy to ensure that his colleague at the LC level gets a modest means of transport which is a bicycle. But was not the case.
Shockingly, in face of such scandals, the authorities that are charged with reprimanding or prosecution of the culprits become indecisive yet the Constitution is very clear on how to proceed.
Article 164 (2) states that “ Any person holding a political or public office, who directs or concurs in the use of public funds contrary to existing instructions shall be accountable for any loss arising from that use and shall be required to make good the loss even if he or she has ceased to hold that office”.
That would be the dictum for relevant organs like Criminal Investigations Department, Inspector General of Government, Director of Public Prosecutions and the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority. Much as Parliament is also charged with the oversight role but if the above organs would act first, then Parliament would have a lot of concentration in making laws.
With increasing cases of corruption in the Government, the above relevant organs should make a radical change from reactive to proactive line. The best way for them to achieve this is by encouraging whistle blowing strategy. However, this will not give results if the principle of confidentiality is not adhered to.
There are cases where the confidentiality of the whistle blower is violated and he or she ends up being hunted by the corrupt he reported.
Secondly, there are higher chances that such a scandal would have been avoided if the ministry opted to award the tender to a local based company. Otherwise what is the essence of awarding such a lucrative tender to an elusive foreign company yet we have our own which can deliver.
Dealing with a local company would be more prudent considering that before the award; it is cheaper and easier to make pre investigations on the company profile, its ability to deliver and character of its directors. Procuring bicycles is not such a technical issue which would demand sourcing a foreign company which in fact makes it more expensive.
Awarding non complex tenders to foreign companies should always cause suspicion whenever a government department opts for so during procurements. Otherwise the bicycle scandal was avoidable if vigilance was mounted by the relevant organs.
Writer is the Jinja West MP
PATRICK BAGARUKAYO ALIAS BERNARD
http://www.nbs.ug/2011/09/24/wanted-patrick-bagarukayo-alias-bernard/
Finally, the public service and local governments’ committee has identified one of the responsible individuals who caused government a loss of over 1.7m USD meant for the purchase of over 70,000 bicycles for village and parish councilors and chairmen.
The committee chaired by the vice chairperson, Hon Magyezi Raphael, issued a warrant of arrest for one Patrick Bagarukayo also known as Bernard who withdrew 390,000 USD in just two consecutive days.
Stanbic Bank represented by its head of legal Gertrude Wamala Karugaba revealed this withdrawal made by Bagarukayo who is still a mystery yet he is neither share holder in the company nor responsible for the bicycles deal.
Meanwhile, Stanbic bank cleared its image when it stressed that its only responsibility was to advice its client and ensure that the documents received are authentic.
Members of parliament are stunned by the fact that all that amount of money moved in just a few hands at the expense of Uganda’s tax payers’ money.
They have insisted that Bagarukayo appears before them and reveal the whole lineage of others on wanted list.
The vice chairperson of the committee has instructed Bank of Uganda and Stanbic Bank to freeze all the accounts of AITEL company not to allow any further withdrawals.
Hon Magyezi has also issued a warrant of arrest to search for Bagarukayo wherever he maybe hiding to either return the money they feasted on, bring the bicycles or faces arrest and be charged of embezzlement.
The committee has also bitterly moved ahead to hand over one of Stanbic bank’s staff Allan Atuhirwe, a branch manager of Stanbic garden city to CID to investigate his questionable relationship with the Bagarukayo clique.
Members of this committee probing this mysterious saga have vowed to search for one Raja Kasharan who is said to be currently in India to account for the same.
According to reports, Raja Kasharan withdrew 20,000 USD for his personal upkeep, he paid AMANI IMPEX INDIA a profit share of 85,000 USD and 1,000 USD to other companies in HongKong which were not involved in any way of this deal.
Investigations are also underway to find out more about the allegedly 8,500 bicycles in Mombasa as it was revealed by Mohinder Singh Chai when he appeared before this very committee.
Namirimu Bushrah and Byanjeru Edna
Bagarukayo Arrested Over Bicycle Scandal
Sheila Naturinda
The Monitor, 26 September 2011
The man at the center of undelivered local government bicycles scandal, Patrick Bagarukayo has been arrested this Monday by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) over allegations that he defrauded taxpayers.
Mr Bagarukayo, who was being hunted by Police, is accused of misappropriation of $1.7 million (about Shs5 billion) worth of public funds meant for the procurement of 700,000 bicycles for village chairpersons and local councils.
Mr Bagarukayo had appeared in the Parliament's Public Service and Local Government Committee to explain circumstances under which he picked more than Shs1.4 billion from an account in Stanbic Bank belonging to Amman Industrial Tools and Equipment Ltd, a phantom company contracted to supply the bicycles in question. The alleged Indian supplier took the money but the bicycles were never delivered.
Nigeria Christians Warned Against Retaliation As Deadline Looms To Leave
Nigeria Christians Warned Against Retaliation As Deadline Looms To Leave
http://www.worthynews.com/11149-nigeria-christians-warned-against-retaliation-as-deadline-looms-to-leave
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 (9:02 am)
ABUJA, NIGERIA (Worthy News)– With a deadline looming to leave their homes or be killed, Christians in northern Nigeria were urged Tuesday, January 3, not to retaliate against Islamic violence.
"We have appealed that there be no retaliation and we continue to preach peace…" said Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of the volatile city of Jos where hundreds of Christians have been killed since last year.
Fighters of the Islamist group Boko Haram, or "Western education is a sin" on Sunday, January 1, issued a three-day ultimatum for Christians to leave the African country's northern state and called on Muslims in the south to move north.
However, Kaigama said, he is still "hoping that all of us in Nigeria, Muslims and Christians, will be able to work and live happily" and added "We continue to appeal to reason, for dialogue."
Boko Haram warned it would fight government troops in parts of the country where President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian, declared a state of emergency following a series of bombs killed at least some 50 Christian worshipers on December 25, Christmas Day.
ISLAMIC LAW
The group has pledged to establish Sharia, or Islamic, law in the country, although its 155 million population is roughly equally divided between Christians, who live mainly in the south, and Muslims in the north.
Christians in the north have made clear it is very difficult to leave their homes behind as they no where to go and are in many cases already facing the daily burden of life in the impoverished nation.
Archbishop Ignatius, who is also the Vice President of the Nigerian Bishop's Conference, said he appealed to Nigerians not to allow their country to be overtaken by terror.
“Churches have been destroyed and lives were lost and there is no sign that this might end, until the government intervenes decisively. We continue to ask Christians to be vigilant and aware of the issue of safety when they go to church and even in their own homes," he said in an interview with Vatican Radio, monitored by Worthy News.
Yet, This is our position: no violence, no retaliation. We want to live in peace," he stressed.
PATIENCE RUNNING OUT
There were signs, however, that patience was running out among religious Christians, whonews reports linked to a bomb that detonated in an Islamic school last week.
A spokesman of Open Doors, an advocacy and aid group supporting "persecuted Christians", said colleagues urged local believers not respond with violence to ongoing attacks. "Really, if we want to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, retaliation is not the way to do that. In fact, that would just make it harder for them to
see us as Christians," said spokesman Jerry Dykstra.
He acknowledged that some believers, who reportedly watched their families killed, "are beyond thinking that way" though.
Dykstra quoted an unidentified young man as telling an Open Doors worker, "It's no longer a time for forgiveness; they have pushed us to the wall. So no pastor can stop me from killing and destroying the lives and property of the Muslims."
BEGGING FOR ANSWERS
In published remarks, Dykstra said that Christians are "begging" for answers. He said his workers had received questions that included "Should we fold our arms and watch our killers kill us and take our land because we want to share Christ?"
Other Nigerian Christians reportedly asked: "Should we begin to show love the people who are killing us on a daily basis? Haven't all of our efforts to live at peace with them failed?"
However, "I think the questions are questions that we would ask too in that situation," Dykstra explained.
He said his group has urged believers worldwide to pray for Nigeria. "Pray that our brothers and sisters in Christ would respond exactly as Jesus would want them to. Pray that bitter hearts would be made at peace, and that forgiveness would reign. Pray also for those who need trauma counseling after watching family members killed. Above all, pray that this would build God's kingdom rather than hinder it."
Bishop Ignatius said it remains unclear "who the Boko Haram really are" and, for instance, where they get their weapons from. "What is certain is that there are some forces behind them, either in Nigeria or abroad, who want to profit from instability in our country." Yet, he pledged, "We will not give in to terrorism, we will not allow these fundamentalists to ruin our country.”
http://www.worthynews.com/11149-nigeria-christians-warned-against-retaliation-as-deadline-looms-to-leave
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 (9:02 am)
ABUJA, NIGERIA (Worthy News)– With a deadline looming to leave their homes or be killed, Christians in northern Nigeria were urged Tuesday, January 3, not to retaliate against Islamic violence.
"We have appealed that there be no retaliation and we continue to preach peace…" said Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of the volatile city of Jos where hundreds of Christians have been killed since last year.
Fighters of the Islamist group Boko Haram, or "Western education is a sin" on Sunday, January 1, issued a three-day ultimatum for Christians to leave the African country's northern state and called on Muslims in the south to move north.
However, Kaigama said, he is still "hoping that all of us in Nigeria, Muslims and Christians, will be able to work and live happily" and added "We continue to appeal to reason, for dialogue."
Boko Haram warned it would fight government troops in parts of the country where President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian, declared a state of emergency following a series of bombs killed at least some 50 Christian worshipers on December 25, Christmas Day.
ISLAMIC LAW
The group has pledged to establish Sharia, or Islamic, law in the country, although its 155 million population is roughly equally divided between Christians, who live mainly in the south, and Muslims in the north.
Christians in the north have made clear it is very difficult to leave their homes behind as they no where to go and are in many cases already facing the daily burden of life in the impoverished nation.
Archbishop Ignatius, who is also the Vice President of the Nigerian Bishop's Conference, said he appealed to Nigerians not to allow their country to be overtaken by terror.
“Churches have been destroyed and lives were lost and there is no sign that this might end, until the government intervenes decisively. We continue to ask Christians to be vigilant and aware of the issue of safety when they go to church and even in their own homes," he said in an interview with Vatican Radio, monitored by Worthy News.
Yet, This is our position: no violence, no retaliation. We want to live in peace," he stressed.
PATIENCE RUNNING OUT
There were signs, however, that patience was running out among religious Christians, whonews reports linked to a bomb that detonated in an Islamic school last week.
A spokesman of Open Doors, an advocacy and aid group supporting "persecuted Christians", said colleagues urged local believers not respond with violence to ongoing attacks. "Really, if we want to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, retaliation is not the way to do that. In fact, that would just make it harder for them to
see us as Christians," said spokesman Jerry Dykstra.
He acknowledged that some believers, who reportedly watched their families killed, "are beyond thinking that way" though.
Dykstra quoted an unidentified young man as telling an Open Doors worker, "It's no longer a time for forgiveness; they have pushed us to the wall. So no pastor can stop me from killing and destroying the lives and property of the Muslims."
BEGGING FOR ANSWERS
In published remarks, Dykstra said that Christians are "begging" for answers. He said his workers had received questions that included "Should we fold our arms and watch our killers kill us and take our land because we want to share Christ?"
Other Nigerian Christians reportedly asked: "Should we begin to show love the people who are killing us on a daily basis? Haven't all of our efforts to live at peace with them failed?"
However, "I think the questions are questions that we would ask too in that situation," Dykstra explained.
He said his group has urged believers worldwide to pray for Nigeria. "Pray that our brothers and sisters in Christ would respond exactly as Jesus would want them to. Pray that bitter hearts would be made at peace, and that forgiveness would reign. Pray also for those who need trauma counseling after watching family members killed. Above all, pray that this would build God's kingdom rather than hinder it."
Bishop Ignatius said it remains unclear "who the Boko Haram really are" and, for instance, where they get their weapons from. "What is certain is that there are some forces behind them, either in Nigeria or abroad, who want to profit from instability in our country." Yet, he pledged, "We will not give in to terrorism, we will not allow these fundamentalists to ruin our country.”
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Uganda is sick says Archbishop Orombi
Uganda is sick says Archbishop Orombi
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/628109-uganda-is-sick-says-archbishop-orombi.html
Publish Date: Jan 02, 2012
By Norman Katende
The archbishop Church of Uganda, Rev. Luke Orombi has said Uganda is a sick country that needs spiritual healing in 2012.
In his New Year’s sermon to the Christians at St. Paul’s Cathedral Namirembe, Orombi said that all Ugandans need is spiritual healing and that not even the organizers of the walk-to work-campaign or the government itself are righteous enough to lead the country through this turmoil.
“Corruption and greed is embedded in us right from childhood. That is why a baby who is suckling a breast will make sure he protects the other one [breast] from any intruder even when it is free. Ask yourself why someone should build a house with 12 bedrooms yet it is only him and his wife living in it,” asked Orombi.
The cleric said that there is no use stealing money from people yet you cannot effectively use it to satisfy yourself.
“At the end of the day, the biggest bed we can sleep in is a six by six bed and you cannot even utilize more than a third of it. You, like others, eat one plate of food so the question is, what is that greed for. Why do you steal all that money for?”
Stressing that all the action in Kampala like theft in the house of the Lord, littering the street and corruption make Ugandans sick. He pointed out that “we need hope.”
“It is this hope that will heal us and this hope can start by us blaming ourselves for all the wrong actions that have impacted on our nation.”
“The heart is deceitful. The human heart is a liar, corrupt and greedy and it is beyond cure. Only God can heal it,” remarked the archbishop before adding the words of Timothy chapter 6:7, that runs thus:
“For we brought nothing into the world and we will take nothing when we go out.”
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/628109-uganda-is-sick-says-archbishop-orombi.html
Publish Date: Jan 02, 2012
By Norman Katende
The archbishop Church of Uganda, Rev. Luke Orombi has said Uganda is a sick country that needs spiritual healing in 2012.
In his New Year’s sermon to the Christians at St. Paul’s Cathedral Namirembe, Orombi said that all Ugandans need is spiritual healing and that not even the organizers of the walk-to work-campaign or the government itself are righteous enough to lead the country through this turmoil.
“Corruption and greed is embedded in us right from childhood. That is why a baby who is suckling a breast will make sure he protects the other one [breast] from any intruder even when it is free. Ask yourself why someone should build a house with 12 bedrooms yet it is only him and his wife living in it,” asked Orombi.
The cleric said that there is no use stealing money from people yet you cannot effectively use it to satisfy yourself.
“At the end of the day, the biggest bed we can sleep in is a six by six bed and you cannot even utilize more than a third of it. You, like others, eat one plate of food so the question is, what is that greed for. Why do you steal all that money for?”
Stressing that all the action in Kampala like theft in the house of the Lord, littering the street and corruption make Ugandans sick. He pointed out that “we need hope.”
“It is this hope that will heal us and this hope can start by us blaming ourselves for all the wrong actions that have impacted on our nation.”
“The heart is deceitful. The human heart is a liar, corrupt and greedy and it is beyond cure. Only God can heal it,” remarked the archbishop before adding the words of Timothy chapter 6:7, that runs thus:
“For we brought nothing into the world and we will take nothing when we go out.”
Precedent for African Dictators : Obama Signs Defense Bill Despite 'Serious Reservations'
Obama Signs Defense Bill Despite 'Serious Reservations'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/31/obama-defense-bill_n_1177836.html
WASHINGTON -- Indefinite military detention of Americans became the law of the land Saturday, as President Barack Obama signed a defense bill that codified that authority, even as he said he would not use it.
The National Defense Authorization Act states how the military is to be funded, but also includes a number of controversial provisions on arresting and holding suspected terrorists, which at first drove Obama to threaten a veto.
He retreated from that threat after Congress added provisions that took the ultimate authority to detain suspects from the military's hands and gave it to the president. Congress also clarified that civilian law enforcement agencies -- such as the FBI -- would still have authority to investigate terrorism and added a provision that asserts nothing in the detention measures changes current law regarding U.S.
citizens.
Still, the signing on New Year's Eve as few people were paying attention angered civil liberties advocates, who argue that the law for the first time spells out certain measures that have not actually been tested all the way to the Supreme Court, including the possibility of detaining citizens in military custody without trial for as long as there is a war on terror.
"President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
"The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield," Romero added. "The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress or internationally.”
The administration was especially sensitive about the law and about reaction to the president signing it. In addition to enacting the measure while few people were paying attention -- and many opponents still had hopes the president would veto the bill -- the White House added a signing statement specifying that the Obama administration would not detain Americans without trial. The White House also sent out a notice to its online community highlighting Obama's complaints with the law, in a tacit admission that many of the president's more ardent supporters despise the detention provisions.
"I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists," Obama said in the signing statement.
Presidents issue such statements when they feel a law conflicts with the executive's constitutional powers. Obama criticized them during the Bush administration, but has found the practice useful on a handful of occasions.
In this case, Obama argued that the changes Congress made to the bill affirm only authorities that the Bush and Obama administrations have already claimed in fighting terrorism. But he noted that the codification of those powers in law was unnecessary and perhaps harmful. And he insisted he would not use the powers to detain citizens without trial.
"I want to clarify that my administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens," Obama wrote. "Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a Nation. My administration will interpret section 1021 [of the bill] in a manner that ensures that any detention it authorizes complies with the Constitution, the laws of war, and all other applicable law."
Civil liberties advocates like Romero pointed out that once the provisions are law, however, they will be available to a President Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney or any future president, who could choose to use the powers granted more aggressively.
"We are incredibly disappointed that President Obama signed this new law even though his administration had already claimed overly broad detention authority in court," said Romero. "Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the war on terror was extinguished today."
Because of the provisions specifying that the new legislation does not change current law, the new law leaves the authority it grants open to interpretation and to the possibility -- albeit in very difficult circumstances -- of someone challenging a detention through the courts.
"Thankfully, we have three branches of government, and the final word belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority," Romero said. "But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created, because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA's detention authority."
Obama also said he will not abide by the law's requirement to detain terror suspects using the military.
"I reject any approach that would mandate military custody where law enforcement provides the best method of incapacitating a terrorist threat," Obama said. "While section 1022 is unnecessary and has the potential to create uncertainty, I have signed the bill because I believe that this section can be interpreted and applied in a manner that avoids undue harm to our current operations."
Finally, he rejected a number of other provisions, saying the White House is concerned they interfere with the president's constitutional powers and ability to fight terrorism.
"My Administration will aggressively seek to mitigate those concerns through the design of implementation procedures and other authorities available to me as Chief Executive and Commander in Chief, will oppose any attempt to extend or expand them in the future, and will seek the repeal of any provisions that undermine the policies and values that have guided my Administration throughout my time in office," Obama warned.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/31/obama-defense-bill_n_1177836.html
WASHINGTON -- Indefinite military detention of Americans became the law of the land Saturday, as President Barack Obama signed a defense bill that codified that authority, even as he said he would not use it.
The National Defense Authorization Act states how the military is to be funded, but also includes a number of controversial provisions on arresting and holding suspected terrorists, which at first drove Obama to threaten a veto.
He retreated from that threat after Congress added provisions that took the ultimate authority to detain suspects from the military's hands and gave it to the president. Congress also clarified that civilian law enforcement agencies -- such as the FBI -- would still have authority to investigate terrorism and added a provision that asserts nothing in the detention measures changes current law regarding U.S.
citizens.
Still, the signing on New Year's Eve as few people were paying attention angered civil liberties advocates, who argue that the law for the first time spells out certain measures that have not actually been tested all the way to the Supreme Court, including the possibility of detaining citizens in military custody without trial for as long as there is a war on terror.
"President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
"The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield," Romero added. "The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress or internationally.”
The administration was especially sensitive about the law and about reaction to the president signing it. In addition to enacting the measure while few people were paying attention -- and many opponents still had hopes the president would veto the bill -- the White House added a signing statement specifying that the Obama administration would not detain Americans without trial. The White House also sent out a notice to its online community highlighting Obama's complaints with the law, in a tacit admission that many of the president's more ardent supporters despise the detention provisions.
"I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists," Obama said in the signing statement.
Presidents issue such statements when they feel a law conflicts with the executive's constitutional powers. Obama criticized them during the Bush administration, but has found the practice useful on a handful of occasions.
In this case, Obama argued that the changes Congress made to the bill affirm only authorities that the Bush and Obama administrations have already claimed in fighting terrorism. But he noted that the codification of those powers in law was unnecessary and perhaps harmful. And he insisted he would not use the powers to detain citizens without trial.
"I want to clarify that my administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens," Obama wrote. "Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a Nation. My administration will interpret section 1021 [of the bill] in a manner that ensures that any detention it authorizes complies with the Constitution, the laws of war, and all other applicable law."
Civil liberties advocates like Romero pointed out that once the provisions are law, however, they will be available to a President Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney or any future president, who could choose to use the powers granted more aggressively.
"We are incredibly disappointed that President Obama signed this new law even though his administration had already claimed overly broad detention authority in court," said Romero. "Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the war on terror was extinguished today."
Because of the provisions specifying that the new legislation does not change current law, the new law leaves the authority it grants open to interpretation and to the possibility -- albeit in very difficult circumstances -- of someone challenging a detention through the courts.
"Thankfully, we have three branches of government, and the final word belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority," Romero said. "But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created, because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA's detention authority."
Obama also said he will not abide by the law's requirement to detain terror suspects using the military.
"I reject any approach that would mandate military custody where law enforcement provides the best method of incapacitating a terrorist threat," Obama said. "While section 1022 is unnecessary and has the potential to create uncertainty, I have signed the bill because I believe that this section can be interpreted and applied in a manner that avoids undue harm to our current operations."
Finally, he rejected a number of other provisions, saying the White House is concerned they interfere with the president's constitutional powers and ability to fight terrorism.
"My Administration will aggressively seek to mitigate those concerns through the design of implementation procedures and other authorities available to me as Chief Executive and Commander in Chief, will oppose any attempt to extend or expand them in the future, and will seek the repeal of any provisions that undermine the policies and values that have guided my Administration throughout my time in office," Obama warned.
Error of the year!!! Iran test-fires missiles in Strait of Hormuz exercises
One Event to Watch for sure: Iranian Leaders are on a path to Suicide; The West has sought every opportunity to hit them hard, and for sure the foolish Iranian leaders might have their 'prayers' answered; the West will strike and strike hard, and Balkanize that nation into plots of Oil... This BEAST called the West is out to Conquer and "Who can make War against Her?" Kato Mivule
Iran test-fires missiles in Strait of Hormuz exercises
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/02/world/meast/iran-missile-test/?hpt=hp_t1
By the CNN Wire Staff
January 3, 2012 -- Updated 0049 GMT (0849 HKT)
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran test-fired two missiles Monday, the final day of its naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, state-run media reported.
The Qader missile, a long-range sea-to-shore missile, was fired during the "power" stage of the maneuvers, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency. The test was successful, and the missile hit its intended targets, according to the report.
"A large number of the long-range surface-to-sea Qader missiles have already been delivered to the Iranian Armed Forces," IRNA said.
A surface-to-surface Nour missile was also successfully tested Monday, according to Iran's Press TV.
The Nour is an "advanced radar-evading, target-seeking, guided and controlled missile and can easily find its target and destroy it," IRNA reported, quoting 2nd Adm. Seyed Mahmoud Musavi.
"Iran's navy test-fired a number of medium-range and long-range missiles in the final stage of the naval drills," Press TV said.
A short-range Nasr missile would also be test-fired Monday, IRNA said.
Iran began the exercises in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman on December 24, IRNA said. Western diplomats have described the maneuvers as further evidence of Iran's volatile behavior.
Iran also successfully test-fired a medium-range, surface-to-air and radar-evading Mehrab missile on Sunday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. A submarine also successfully fired torpedoes at mock vessels, according to the report.
Fars added that plans for Monday involve "a new tactic which is designed to prevent any movement in the Strait of Hormuz if the Iranian navy so desires."
The French Foreign Ministry said Monday the missile tests send a "very bad signal to the international community."
"We want to underline that the development by Iran of a missile program is a source of great concern to the international community," the ministry said in a written statement. That's why Iran is prohibited from "pursuing any activity on ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear (war)head," per a U.N. Security Council resolution, the statement added.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he believes the Iranian exercises and missile tests reflects "the dire straits of Iran in light of the tightening sanctions around her, including the considerations in the last few days regarding the sanctions of exporting petroleum as well as the possibility of sanctions against the Iranian Central Bank."
Because of their "dire situation," Barak said, Iran is "pulling out the envelope of threats in order to deter the world from continuing the sanctions."
The naval exercises focused attention on the strait -- a shipping channel leading in and out of the Persian Gulf between Iran on one coast and Oman and the United Arab Emirates on the other. It is strategically important because tankers carrying oil travel through it -- some 15 million barrels daily in 2009, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Iran last week threatened to close the strait over planned sanctions targeting its oil industry and companies that do business with Iran's Central Bank. The sanctions are intended to force Iran to curtail its nuclear program.
The Obama administration was quick to say any closure would be unacceptable and vowed to keep the strait open. But Iran's Press TV reported on Saturday the nation has no plans to close the strait.
The French Foreign Ministry statement emphasized the need for the "freedom of navigation" in the strait.
On Sunday, Fars reported that Iran had succeeded in building and testing the country's first domestically produced nuclear fuel rod. The rod was successfully tested and installed in the core of a research reactor in Tehran, the news agency said, citing the nation's atomic energy agency website.
Iran has repeatedly insisted its nuclear program is for peaceful, civilian energy purposes only. But it has rebuffed demands to halt its production of enriched uranium, and a November 8 report by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog found "credible" information that Tehran has carried out work toward nuclear weapons -- including tests of possible bomb components.
In December, the United States as well as several other Western and Asian nations announced increased sanctions against Iran in an international effort to tighten the screws around the suspected nuclear weapons program.
Iran test-fires missiles in Strait of Hormuz exercises
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/02/world/meast/iran-missile-test/?hpt=hp_t1
By the CNN Wire Staff
January 3, 2012 -- Updated 0049 GMT (0849 HKT)
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran test-fired two missiles Monday, the final day of its naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, state-run media reported.
The Qader missile, a long-range sea-to-shore missile, was fired during the "power" stage of the maneuvers, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency. The test was successful, and the missile hit its intended targets, according to the report.
"A large number of the long-range surface-to-sea Qader missiles have already been delivered to the Iranian Armed Forces," IRNA said.
A surface-to-surface Nour missile was also successfully tested Monday, according to Iran's Press TV.
The Nour is an "advanced radar-evading, target-seeking, guided and controlled missile and can easily find its target and destroy it," IRNA reported, quoting 2nd Adm. Seyed Mahmoud Musavi.
"Iran's navy test-fired a number of medium-range and long-range missiles in the final stage of the naval drills," Press TV said.
A short-range Nasr missile would also be test-fired Monday, IRNA said.
Iran began the exercises in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman on December 24, IRNA said. Western diplomats have described the maneuvers as further evidence of Iran's volatile behavior.
Iran also successfully test-fired a medium-range, surface-to-air and radar-evading Mehrab missile on Sunday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. A submarine also successfully fired torpedoes at mock vessels, according to the report.
Fars added that plans for Monday involve "a new tactic which is designed to prevent any movement in the Strait of Hormuz if the Iranian navy so desires."
The French Foreign Ministry said Monday the missile tests send a "very bad signal to the international community."
"We want to underline that the development by Iran of a missile program is a source of great concern to the international community," the ministry said in a written statement. That's why Iran is prohibited from "pursuing any activity on ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear (war)head," per a U.N. Security Council resolution, the statement added.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he believes the Iranian exercises and missile tests reflects "the dire straits of Iran in light of the tightening sanctions around her, including the considerations in the last few days regarding the sanctions of exporting petroleum as well as the possibility of sanctions against the Iranian Central Bank."
Because of their "dire situation," Barak said, Iran is "pulling out the envelope of threats in order to deter the world from continuing the sanctions."
The naval exercises focused attention on the strait -- a shipping channel leading in and out of the Persian Gulf between Iran on one coast and Oman and the United Arab Emirates on the other. It is strategically important because tankers carrying oil travel through it -- some 15 million barrels daily in 2009, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Iran last week threatened to close the strait over planned sanctions targeting its oil industry and companies that do business with Iran's Central Bank. The sanctions are intended to force Iran to curtail its nuclear program.
The Obama administration was quick to say any closure would be unacceptable and vowed to keep the strait open. But Iran's Press TV reported on Saturday the nation has no plans to close the strait.
The French Foreign Ministry statement emphasized the need for the "freedom of navigation" in the strait.
On Sunday, Fars reported that Iran had succeeded in building and testing the country's first domestically produced nuclear fuel rod. The rod was successfully tested and installed in the core of a research reactor in Tehran, the news agency said, citing the nation's atomic energy agency website.
Iran has repeatedly insisted its nuclear program is for peaceful, civilian energy purposes only. But it has rebuffed demands to halt its production of enriched uranium, and a November 8 report by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog found "credible" information that Tehran has carried out work toward nuclear weapons -- including tests of possible bomb components.
In December, the United States as well as several other Western and Asian nations announced increased sanctions against Iran in an international effort to tighten the screws around the suspected nuclear weapons program.
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Nigeria Christians 'to defend churches from Boko Haram' OH! Really
IT IS WRITTEN :
19Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. 20Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 21Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:19-21)
43Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? (Matthew 5:43-46)
14Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. 17Recompense to no man evil for evil….. Romans 12
Nigeria Christians 'to defend churches from Boko Haram'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16350635
28 December 2011 Last updated at 23:57 GMT
Nigerian Christians will have "no other option" but to defend themselves if attacks by Islamist militants continue, church leaders have said.
The Christian Association of Nigeria said the Boko Haram group had declared war with its recent violence.
More than 40 people were killed in attacks on churches in northern and central areas on Christmas Day.
Since then, some 90,000 people have fled their homes amid clashes between Boko Haram and police in Damaturu.
Earlier on Wednesday, six children and an adult were injured when a homemade bomb was thrown into an Islamic school in the southern Delta state.
A police spokesman said the bomb had been thrown from a moving car - it was not clear who was behind the attack, which has raised fears of retaliatory vigilante strikes.
BBC Africa correspondent Karen Allen says Africa's most populous nation and biggest oil producer faces the spectre of sectarian violence between the largely Muslim north and mostly Christian south.
Muslim leaders have, however, moved to downplay the prospect of communal clashes.
'Declaration of war'
"The consensus is that the Christian community nationwide will be left with no other option than to respond appropriately if there are any further attacks on our members, churches and property," said the leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria, an umbrella group of the country's churches.
Boko Haram: Timeline of terror
• 2002: Founded
• 2009: Hundreds killed when Maiduguri police stations stormed
• 2009: Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf captured by army, handed to police, later found dead
• Sep 2010: Freed hundreds of prisoners from Maiduguri jail
• Dec 2010: Bombed Jos, killing 80; blamed for New Year's Eve attack on Abuja barracks
• 2010-2011: Dozens killed in Maiduguri shootings
• Nov 2011: Co-ordinated bomb and gun attacks in Yobe and Borno states
• Dec 2011: Series of bomb attacks on Christmas Day kills dozens
•
Ayo Oritsejafor was speaking at the St Theresa Church outside the capital, Abuja, where 35 people died in the Christmas Day bombings, the AFP news agency reports.
He said the attacks were "considered as a declaration of war on Christians and Nigeria as an entity," and that while he did not want to encourage acts of revenge, "Christians should protect themselves... in any way they can".
Mr Oritsejafor said the lack of response by Muslim leaders was an "abdication of their responsibilities", and that the Christian community was also "fast losing confidence in government's ability to protect our rights".
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who is a Christian, has held urgent meetings with Muslim and Christian leaders in an attempt to restore calm.
On Tuesday, Nigeria's main Muslim cleric, the Sultan of Sokoto, denounced the Christmas Day attacks and called for calm.
"I want to assure all Nigerians that there is no conflict between Muslims and Christians, between Islam and Christianity," said Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar.
Boko Haram, which denies reports it has links to al-Qaeda, has said it carried out the Christmas Day attacks.
Last week, its militants were involved in heavy gun battles with government troops in the north-eastern city of Damaturu.
A state emergency management official said the clashes had displaced 90,000 people and that the entire district of Pompomari had been emptied as residents fled.
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is forbidden", wants the imposition of strict Sharia law in Nigeria.
The group carried out an August 2011 suicide attack on the UN headquarters in Abuja, in which more than 20 people were killed.
It was also responsible for a string of bomb blasts in the central city of Jos on Christmas Eve 2010.
Who are Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13809501
By Farouk Chothia BBC African Service
29 December 2011 Last updated at 09:51 GMT
Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram - which has caused havoc in Africa's most populous country through a wave of bombings - is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.
Its followers are said to be influenced by the Koranic phrase which says: "Anyone who is not governed by what Allah has revealed is among the transgressors".
Boko Haram promotes a version of Islam which makes it "haram", or forbidden, for Muslims to take part in any political or social activity associated with Western society.
This includes voting in elections, wearing shirts and trousers or receiving a secular education.
Boko Haram regards the Nigerian state as being run by non-believers, even when the country had a Muslim president.
Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf was killed after his arrest
The group's official name is Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad, which in Arabic means "People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad".
But residents in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, where the group had its headquarters, dubbed it Boko Haram.
Loosely translated from the local Hausa language, this means "Western education is forbidden".
Boko originally means fake but came to signify Western education, while haram means forbidden.
Since the Sokoto caliphate, which ruled parts of what is now northern Nigeria, Niger and southern Cameroon, fell under British control in 1903, there has been resistance among the area's Muslims to Western education.
Many Muslim families still refuse to send their children to government-run "Western schools", a problem compounded by the ruling elite which does not see education as a priority.
Audacious
Against this background, the charismatic Muslim cleric, Mohammed Yusuf, formed Boko Haram in Maiduguri in 2002. He set up a religious complex, which included a mosque and an Islamic school.
Many poor Muslim families from across Nigeria, as well as neighbouring countries, enrolled their children at the school.
But Boko Haram was not only interested in education. Its political goal was to create an Islamic state, and the school became a recruiting ground for jihadis to fight the state.
In 2009, Boko Haram carried out a spate of attacks on police stations and other government buildings in Maiduguri.
This led to shoot-outs on Maiduguri's streets. Hundreds of Boko Haram supporters were killed and thousands of residents fled the city.
Nigeria's security forces eventually seized the group's headquarters, capturing its fighters and killing Mr Yusuf.
His body was shown on state television and the security forces declared Boko Haram finished.
But its fighters have regrouped under a new leader and in 2010, they attacked a prison in Maiduguri, freeing hundreds of the group's supporters.
Boko Haram's trademark has been the use of gunmen on motorbikes, killing police, politicians and anyone who criticises it, including clerics from other Muslim traditions and a Christian preacher.
The group has also staged several more audacious attacks in different parts of northern Nigeria, showing that it is establishing a presence across the region and fuelling tension between Muslims and Christians.
These reportedly include the 2011 Christmas Day bombings on the outskirts of Abuja and in the north-eastern city of Damaturu, a 2010 New Year's Eve attack on a military barracks in Abuja, several explosions around the time of President Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration in May 2011, followed by the bombing of the police headquarters and the UN headquarters in Abuja.
The attacks have raised global concern, with a US Congressional report - released in November 2011 - warning that Boko Haram was an "emerging threat" to the US and its interests.
The report said Boko Haram may be forging ties with al-Qaeda-linked groups in Africa, but the group denies this.
Analysts say northern Nigeria has a history of spawning groups similar to Boko Haram.
The threat will disappear only if the Nigerian government manages to reduce the region's chronic poverty and builds an education system which gains the support of local Muslims, the analysts say.
19Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. 20Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 21Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:19-21)
43Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? (Matthew 5:43-46)
14Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. 17Recompense to no man evil for evil….. Romans 12
Nigeria Christians 'to defend churches from Boko Haram'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16350635
28 December 2011 Last updated at 23:57 GMT
Nigerian Christians will have "no other option" but to defend themselves if attacks by Islamist militants continue, church leaders have said.
The Christian Association of Nigeria said the Boko Haram group had declared war with its recent violence.
More than 40 people were killed in attacks on churches in northern and central areas on Christmas Day.
Since then, some 90,000 people have fled their homes amid clashes between Boko Haram and police in Damaturu.
Earlier on Wednesday, six children and an adult were injured when a homemade bomb was thrown into an Islamic school in the southern Delta state.
A police spokesman said the bomb had been thrown from a moving car - it was not clear who was behind the attack, which has raised fears of retaliatory vigilante strikes.
BBC Africa correspondent Karen Allen says Africa's most populous nation and biggest oil producer faces the spectre of sectarian violence between the largely Muslim north and mostly Christian south.
Muslim leaders have, however, moved to downplay the prospect of communal clashes.
'Declaration of war'
"The consensus is that the Christian community nationwide will be left with no other option than to respond appropriately if there are any further attacks on our members, churches and property," said the leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria, an umbrella group of the country's churches.
Boko Haram: Timeline of terror
• 2002: Founded
• 2009: Hundreds killed when Maiduguri police stations stormed
• 2009: Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf captured by army, handed to police, later found dead
• Sep 2010: Freed hundreds of prisoners from Maiduguri jail
• Dec 2010: Bombed Jos, killing 80; blamed for New Year's Eve attack on Abuja barracks
• 2010-2011: Dozens killed in Maiduguri shootings
• Nov 2011: Co-ordinated bomb and gun attacks in Yobe and Borno states
• Dec 2011: Series of bomb attacks on Christmas Day kills dozens
•
Ayo Oritsejafor was speaking at the St Theresa Church outside the capital, Abuja, where 35 people died in the Christmas Day bombings, the AFP news agency reports.
He said the attacks were "considered as a declaration of war on Christians and Nigeria as an entity," and that while he did not want to encourage acts of revenge, "Christians should protect themselves... in any way they can".
Mr Oritsejafor said the lack of response by Muslim leaders was an "abdication of their responsibilities", and that the Christian community was also "fast losing confidence in government's ability to protect our rights".
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who is a Christian, has held urgent meetings with Muslim and Christian leaders in an attempt to restore calm.
On Tuesday, Nigeria's main Muslim cleric, the Sultan of Sokoto, denounced the Christmas Day attacks and called for calm.
"I want to assure all Nigerians that there is no conflict between Muslims and Christians, between Islam and Christianity," said Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar.
Boko Haram, which denies reports it has links to al-Qaeda, has said it carried out the Christmas Day attacks.
Last week, its militants were involved in heavy gun battles with government troops in the north-eastern city of Damaturu.
A state emergency management official said the clashes had displaced 90,000 people and that the entire district of Pompomari had been emptied as residents fled.
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is forbidden", wants the imposition of strict Sharia law in Nigeria.
The group carried out an August 2011 suicide attack on the UN headquarters in Abuja, in which more than 20 people were killed.
It was also responsible for a string of bomb blasts in the central city of Jos on Christmas Eve 2010.
Who are Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13809501
By Farouk Chothia BBC African Service
29 December 2011 Last updated at 09:51 GMT
Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram - which has caused havoc in Africa's most populous country through a wave of bombings - is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.
Its followers are said to be influenced by the Koranic phrase which says: "Anyone who is not governed by what Allah has revealed is among the transgressors".
Boko Haram promotes a version of Islam which makes it "haram", or forbidden, for Muslims to take part in any political or social activity associated with Western society.
This includes voting in elections, wearing shirts and trousers or receiving a secular education.
Boko Haram regards the Nigerian state as being run by non-believers, even when the country had a Muslim president.
Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf was killed after his arrest
The group's official name is Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad, which in Arabic means "People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad".
But residents in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, where the group had its headquarters, dubbed it Boko Haram.
Loosely translated from the local Hausa language, this means "Western education is forbidden".
Boko originally means fake but came to signify Western education, while haram means forbidden.
Since the Sokoto caliphate, which ruled parts of what is now northern Nigeria, Niger and southern Cameroon, fell under British control in 1903, there has been resistance among the area's Muslims to Western education.
Many Muslim families still refuse to send their children to government-run "Western schools", a problem compounded by the ruling elite which does not see education as a priority.
Audacious
Against this background, the charismatic Muslim cleric, Mohammed Yusuf, formed Boko Haram in Maiduguri in 2002. He set up a religious complex, which included a mosque and an Islamic school.
Many poor Muslim families from across Nigeria, as well as neighbouring countries, enrolled their children at the school.
But Boko Haram was not only interested in education. Its political goal was to create an Islamic state, and the school became a recruiting ground for jihadis to fight the state.
In 2009, Boko Haram carried out a spate of attacks on police stations and other government buildings in Maiduguri.
This led to shoot-outs on Maiduguri's streets. Hundreds of Boko Haram supporters were killed and thousands of residents fled the city.
Nigeria's security forces eventually seized the group's headquarters, capturing its fighters and killing Mr Yusuf.
His body was shown on state television and the security forces declared Boko Haram finished.
But its fighters have regrouped under a new leader and in 2010, they attacked a prison in Maiduguri, freeing hundreds of the group's supporters.
Boko Haram's trademark has been the use of gunmen on motorbikes, killing police, politicians and anyone who criticises it, including clerics from other Muslim traditions and a Christian preacher.
The group has also staged several more audacious attacks in different parts of northern Nigeria, showing that it is establishing a presence across the region and fuelling tension between Muslims and Christians.
These reportedly include the 2011 Christmas Day bombings on the outskirts of Abuja and in the north-eastern city of Damaturu, a 2010 New Year's Eve attack on a military barracks in Abuja, several explosions around the time of President Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration in May 2011, followed by the bombing of the police headquarters and the UN headquarters in Abuja.
The attacks have raised global concern, with a US Congressional report - released in November 2011 - warning that Boko Haram was an "emerging threat" to the US and its interests.
The report said Boko Haram may be forging ties with al-Qaeda-linked groups in Africa, but the group denies this.
Analysts say northern Nigeria has a history of spawning groups similar to Boko Haram.
The threat will disappear only if the Nigerian government manages to reduce the region's chronic poverty and builds an education system which gains the support of local Muslims, the analysts say.
Anglicans Joining Catholic Church: Not Much Will Change
Anglicans Joining Catholic Church: Not Much Will Change
By Michael Gryboski | Christian Post Reporter
The Christian Post > World|Wed, Dec. 28 2011 01:07 PM EDT
http://www.christianpost.com/news/anglicans-joining-catholic-church-not-much-will-change-65935/
As the Jan. 1, 2012 date given for the creation of a Roman Catholic Ordinariate, or church body, for disaffected Anglicans draws near, some departing churches say they do not expect significant differences in their worship and practice.
An ordinariate is a geographical region similar to a diocese except that it is national in scope. They are headed by an “ordinary,” which can be a bishop or a priest.
Some congregations that have severed their ties with the Episcopal Church have petitioned the pope to become part of the Catholic Church, under the condition that they retain elements of Anglican tradition, also known as “Anglican Patrimony.”
Bishop Louise Campese of the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Orlando, Fla., who also serves as Bishop Ordinary for Pro-Diocese of the Holy Family, said that even though all changes had not been decided for his congregation, he believes there will not be extensive changes.
“There are going to be some changes, but not something foreign to the Anglican Patrimony,” said Campese, who added that he had “no more information than that at this time.”
Even before voting to join the Roman Catholic Church, Campese’s congregation considered itself Anglo-Catholic, which is a part of the Anglican Communion that has Catholic-like rituals and worship practices.
Back in 2007, the Cathedral of the Incarnation was one of many Anglican churches that, as part of a conservative group called the Traditional Anglican Communion, decided to adopt the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
“We at the Cathedral have been using the Catechism for our Adult Forums, each week, for the past three plus years and our folks are very well informed and adhere to the teachings therein,” said Campese.
Father Mark Lewis of St. Luke’s Parish of Bladensburg, Maryland, told a similar story of minor changes for his congregation as they prepare for entering the Ordinariate.
“Not much changed. As an Anglo-Catholic parish we accepted, with few exceptions, all the Catholic Church taught,” said Lewis.
Lewis also said that as his church began the process to become part of the Catholic Church they “ceased using the Anglican Service Book for our worship and began using the Book of Divine Worship.”
“The Book of Divine Worship is the Vatican approved liturgical book used by Anglican Use Parishes in the United States,” said Lewis.
Together Again
The Anglican Church was created back in the 16th century when King Henry VIII of England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church after being denied an annulment from his first marriage. Initially identical in doctrine and practice, gradually the two became different as the Anglican Church adopted the Book of Common Prayer.
Churches within the Anglican Communion would eventually differentiate themselves via the term “high church” and “low church.” A “high church” congregation is one that focuses more on liturgy and ritual whereas a “low church” congregation is more contemporary in its practices.
Nearly five centuries later, traditional churches once belonging to the Anglican Communion have found themselves at odds with their denomination’s ordination of women and growing tolerance for homosexuality.
While many Anglican Churches decided to break away and form their own conservative sects, some have decided to return to the very church tradition their denomination broke away from back in the days of the Tudor Monarchs.
The first ordinariate, Our Lady of Walsingham, was established for Anglicans in England and Wales on Jan. 15 of this year. Other ordinariates are being considered for Australia and Canada.
By Michael Gryboski | Christian Post Reporter
The Christian Post > World|Wed, Dec. 28 2011 01:07 PM EDT
http://www.christianpost.com/news/anglicans-joining-catholic-church-not-much-will-change-65935/
As the Jan. 1, 2012 date given for the creation of a Roman Catholic Ordinariate, or church body, for disaffected Anglicans draws near, some departing churches say they do not expect significant differences in their worship and practice.
An ordinariate is a geographical region similar to a diocese except that it is national in scope. They are headed by an “ordinary,” which can be a bishop or a priest.
Some congregations that have severed their ties with the Episcopal Church have petitioned the pope to become part of the Catholic Church, under the condition that they retain elements of Anglican tradition, also known as “Anglican Patrimony.”
Bishop Louise Campese of the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Orlando, Fla., who also serves as Bishop Ordinary for Pro-Diocese of the Holy Family, said that even though all changes had not been decided for his congregation, he believes there will not be extensive changes.
“There are going to be some changes, but not something foreign to the Anglican Patrimony,” said Campese, who added that he had “no more information than that at this time.”
Even before voting to join the Roman Catholic Church, Campese’s congregation considered itself Anglo-Catholic, which is a part of the Anglican Communion that has Catholic-like rituals and worship practices.
Back in 2007, the Cathedral of the Incarnation was one of many Anglican churches that, as part of a conservative group called the Traditional Anglican Communion, decided to adopt the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
“We at the Cathedral have been using the Catechism for our Adult Forums, each week, for the past three plus years and our folks are very well informed and adhere to the teachings therein,” said Campese.
Father Mark Lewis of St. Luke’s Parish of Bladensburg, Maryland, told a similar story of minor changes for his congregation as they prepare for entering the Ordinariate.
“Not much changed. As an Anglo-Catholic parish we accepted, with few exceptions, all the Catholic Church taught,” said Lewis.
Lewis also said that as his church began the process to become part of the Catholic Church they “ceased using the Anglican Service Book for our worship and began using the Book of Divine Worship.”
“The Book of Divine Worship is the Vatican approved liturgical book used by Anglican Use Parishes in the United States,” said Lewis.
Together Again
The Anglican Church was created back in the 16th century when King Henry VIII of England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church after being denied an annulment from his first marriage. Initially identical in doctrine and practice, gradually the two became different as the Anglican Church adopted the Book of Common Prayer.
Churches within the Anglican Communion would eventually differentiate themselves via the term “high church” and “low church.” A “high church” congregation is one that focuses more on liturgy and ritual whereas a “low church” congregation is more contemporary in its practices.
Nearly five centuries later, traditional churches once belonging to the Anglican Communion have found themselves at odds with their denomination’s ordination of women and growing tolerance for homosexuality.
While many Anglican Churches decided to break away and form their own conservative sects, some have decided to return to the very church tradition their denomination broke away from back in the days of the Tudor Monarchs.
The first ordinariate, Our Lady of Walsingham, was established for Anglicans in England and Wales on Jan. 15 of this year. Other ordinariates are being considered for Australia and Canada.
Western Media passionately narrates Pastor Mulinde’s Acid attach
Muslim Extremists in Uganda Throw Acid on Bishop
Burns threaten eyesight of church leader who opposed Islamic courts.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/muslim-extremists-in-uganda-throw-acid-on-bishop-65903/
The Christian Post > World|Wed, Dec. 28 2011 01:07 PM EDT
By Compass Direct News
KAMPALA, Uganda – Islamic extremists threw acid on a church leader on Christmas Eve shortly after a seven-day revival at his church, leaving him with severe burns that have blinded one eye and threaten sight in the other.
Bishop Umar Mulinde, 37, a sheikh (Islamic teacher) before his conversion to Christianity, was attacked on Saturday night (Dec. 24) outside his Gospel Life Church International building in Namasuba, about 10 kilometers (six miles) outside of Kampala. From his hospital bed in Kampala, he told Compass that he was on his way back to the site for a party with the entire congregation and hundreds of new converts to Christianity when a man who claimed to be a Christian approached him.
“I heard him say in a loud voice, ‘Pastor, pastor,’ and as I made a turn and looked at him, he poured the liquid onto my face as others poured more liquid on my back and then fled away shouting, ‘Allahu akbar [God is greater],’” Mulinde said, still visibly traumatized two days after the assault.
A neighbor and church members rushed him to a hospital in the Mengo area of Kampala, and he was then transferred to International Hospital Kampala.
“I have to continue fighting this pain – it is too much,” Mulinde said. “My entire body is in pain. Most of the night I miss sleep.”
His face, neck and arms bore deep black scars from the acid, and his lips were swollen.
“The burn caused by the acid is so severe that there is an urgent need for specialized treatment,” said area Christian Musa Baluku Symutsangira. “I suggest that he be flown outside the country as soon as possible; otherwise Mulinde might lose both of his eyes, coupled with the spread of the burns. The burns seemed to spread and go very deep. He might need some plastic surgery.”
A doctor told Compass that acid burns cover about 30 percent of his face and has cost him sight in one eye.
“We are doing all we can to save his other remaining eye and to contain the acid from spreading to other parts of the body,” the doctor said.
Mulinde’s shirt, tie and suit were in tatters after the attack.
Mulinde said his father, Id Wasswa, was a local prayer leader or imam.
“I was born into a Muslim family, and although I decided to become a Christian, I have been financially assisting many Muslims, as well as my relatives who are Muslims,” he said. “I have been conducting a peaceful evangelism campaign.”
Mulinde said Muslim extremists opposed to his conversion from Islam and his outspoken opposition of sharia (Islamic law) courts in Uganda, known in East Africa as Kadhi courts, attacked him. On Oct. 15, area Muslim leaders declared a fatwa against him demanding his death.
“I have been receiving several threats for a long time, and this last one is the worst of all,” Mulinde said. “I have bore the marks of Jesus.”
Mulinde is known for debates locally and internationally in which he often challenges Muslims regarding their religion. His extensive knowledge and quotation of the Quran in his preaching has won him enemies and friends. Often criticizing Islam, he has relied on police protection during revival campaigns throughout Uganda.
“Mulinde poses a big threat to those who cannot take the challenge as he engages the Muslims in debate,” said Dr. Joseph Serwadda, an area church leader.
A church guard who was away on the day of the attack said he felt responsible.
“I feel bad,” he said. “I feel I have failed in my duty as a guard.”
Mulinde is married and has six children ages 14, 12, 8, 6 and twins who are 3.
Police have reportedly arrested one suspect, whom they have declined to name. A divisional commander at Katwa police station identified only as Kateebe would say only that an investigation was underway.
The hospital charges 350,000 Uganda shillings (US$140 dollars) per day, a steep amount in Uganda.
“We appeal for our brothers and sisters wherever they are to assist the life of Bishop Umar Mulinde,” said Symutsangira.
Several Attacks
Mulinde, who lives and pastors in Namasuba outside of Kampala, in April led religious leaders in petitioning the Ugandan Parliament to refrain from amending the constitution to introduce Kadhi courts.
He collected 360,000 signatures from former Muslims who have converted to Christianity, he said, and managed to temporarily stop parliament from proposing the constitutional change. When Compass met with Mulinde in November, however, he said there was new momentum to revive the Kadhi courts issue.
In May he was attacked by suspected Muslim extremists after a series of campaigns against Kadhi courts in Namasuba. After presenting his case against the Kadhi courts, he narrowly escaped a kidnap attempt when his vehicle was blocked at eight kilometers (five miles) outside of Kampala at Ndege, two kilometers from his home in Namasuba. Muslim extremists jumped out of the vehicle and shot at the fleeing Mulinde but missed him. He reported the case at the Katwa police station.
Mulinde has faced several injuries and attacks from Muslims since his conversion to Christianity in 1993, including having stones thrown at him after debates in 1998 and 2002.
After Kenya maintained Kadhi courts in its new constitution last year, the attorney general of Uganda wanted to insert Kadhi courts – which presumably would deal only with marriage and family issues for Muslims – into the Ugandan constitution. But Mulinde argued that there would be two judicial systems governing one country.
“If Muslims who convert to Christianity are facing persecution from the Muslims now, then what will be their fate when the Kadhi courts are entrenched in the constitution?” he said.
When Mulinde converted from Islam to Christianity, his family drove him away with clubs and machetes. Since then, he has suffered numerous life-threatening attacks. In 1995 at Mbiji, he was attacked with clubs but managed to escape. In 1998 he was attacked at Kangulomila near Jinja town. In 2000 in Masaka, Muslims bribed the area district commissioner to declare Mulinde’s meetings illegal; Muslims stormed into one of the meetings and dragged him out, beating him till he lost consciousness. Police saved him.
In 2001 in Busia, while addressing another meeting, a Muslim extremist narrowly missed killing him with a sword. In 1994, he survived a gun attack at Natete, near Kampala, when a bullet narrowly missed him. He said that as he fell into muddy waters, his Muslim attackers, thinking they had killed him, said, “Allah akbar.”
Because of the threats against him – in October Muslim extremists sent him text messages threatening to assassinate him – Mulinde had relocated to another area in Uganda.
He has vowed to continue fighting for the rights of the former Muslims haunted by radical Islamists.
Burns threaten eyesight of church leader who opposed Islamic courts.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/muslim-extremists-in-uganda-throw-acid-on-bishop-65903/
The Christian Post > World|Wed, Dec. 28 2011 01:07 PM EDT
By Compass Direct News
KAMPALA, Uganda – Islamic extremists threw acid on a church leader on Christmas Eve shortly after a seven-day revival at his church, leaving him with severe burns that have blinded one eye and threaten sight in the other.
Bishop Umar Mulinde, 37, a sheikh (Islamic teacher) before his conversion to Christianity, was attacked on Saturday night (Dec. 24) outside his Gospel Life Church International building in Namasuba, about 10 kilometers (six miles) outside of Kampala. From his hospital bed in Kampala, he told Compass that he was on his way back to the site for a party with the entire congregation and hundreds of new converts to Christianity when a man who claimed to be a Christian approached him.
“I heard him say in a loud voice, ‘Pastor, pastor,’ and as I made a turn and looked at him, he poured the liquid onto my face as others poured more liquid on my back and then fled away shouting, ‘Allahu akbar [God is greater],’” Mulinde said, still visibly traumatized two days after the assault.
A neighbor and church members rushed him to a hospital in the Mengo area of Kampala, and he was then transferred to International Hospital Kampala.
“I have to continue fighting this pain – it is too much,” Mulinde said. “My entire body is in pain. Most of the night I miss sleep.”
His face, neck and arms bore deep black scars from the acid, and his lips were swollen.
“The burn caused by the acid is so severe that there is an urgent need for specialized treatment,” said area Christian Musa Baluku Symutsangira. “I suggest that he be flown outside the country as soon as possible; otherwise Mulinde might lose both of his eyes, coupled with the spread of the burns. The burns seemed to spread and go very deep. He might need some plastic surgery.”
A doctor told Compass that acid burns cover about 30 percent of his face and has cost him sight in one eye.
“We are doing all we can to save his other remaining eye and to contain the acid from spreading to other parts of the body,” the doctor said.
Mulinde’s shirt, tie and suit were in tatters after the attack.
Mulinde said his father, Id Wasswa, was a local prayer leader or imam.
“I was born into a Muslim family, and although I decided to become a Christian, I have been financially assisting many Muslims, as well as my relatives who are Muslims,” he said. “I have been conducting a peaceful evangelism campaign.”
Mulinde said Muslim extremists opposed to his conversion from Islam and his outspoken opposition of sharia (Islamic law) courts in Uganda, known in East Africa as Kadhi courts, attacked him. On Oct. 15, area Muslim leaders declared a fatwa against him demanding his death.
“I have been receiving several threats for a long time, and this last one is the worst of all,” Mulinde said. “I have bore the marks of Jesus.”
Mulinde is known for debates locally and internationally in which he often challenges Muslims regarding their religion. His extensive knowledge and quotation of the Quran in his preaching has won him enemies and friends. Often criticizing Islam, he has relied on police protection during revival campaigns throughout Uganda.
“Mulinde poses a big threat to those who cannot take the challenge as he engages the Muslims in debate,” said Dr. Joseph Serwadda, an area church leader.
A church guard who was away on the day of the attack said he felt responsible.
“I feel bad,” he said. “I feel I have failed in my duty as a guard.”
Mulinde is married and has six children ages 14, 12, 8, 6 and twins who are 3.
Police have reportedly arrested one suspect, whom they have declined to name. A divisional commander at Katwa police station identified only as Kateebe would say only that an investigation was underway.
The hospital charges 350,000 Uganda shillings (US$140 dollars) per day, a steep amount in Uganda.
“We appeal for our brothers and sisters wherever they are to assist the life of Bishop Umar Mulinde,” said Symutsangira.
Several Attacks
Mulinde, who lives and pastors in Namasuba outside of Kampala, in April led religious leaders in petitioning the Ugandan Parliament to refrain from amending the constitution to introduce Kadhi courts.
He collected 360,000 signatures from former Muslims who have converted to Christianity, he said, and managed to temporarily stop parliament from proposing the constitutional change. When Compass met with Mulinde in November, however, he said there was new momentum to revive the Kadhi courts issue.
In May he was attacked by suspected Muslim extremists after a series of campaigns against Kadhi courts in Namasuba. After presenting his case against the Kadhi courts, he narrowly escaped a kidnap attempt when his vehicle was blocked at eight kilometers (five miles) outside of Kampala at Ndege, two kilometers from his home in Namasuba. Muslim extremists jumped out of the vehicle and shot at the fleeing Mulinde but missed him. He reported the case at the Katwa police station.
Mulinde has faced several injuries and attacks from Muslims since his conversion to Christianity in 1993, including having stones thrown at him after debates in 1998 and 2002.
After Kenya maintained Kadhi courts in its new constitution last year, the attorney general of Uganda wanted to insert Kadhi courts – which presumably would deal only with marriage and family issues for Muslims – into the Ugandan constitution. But Mulinde argued that there would be two judicial systems governing one country.
“If Muslims who convert to Christianity are facing persecution from the Muslims now, then what will be their fate when the Kadhi courts are entrenched in the constitution?” he said.
When Mulinde converted from Islam to Christianity, his family drove him away with clubs and machetes. Since then, he has suffered numerous life-threatening attacks. In 1995 at Mbiji, he was attacked with clubs but managed to escape. In 1998 he was attacked at Kangulomila near Jinja town. In 2000 in Masaka, Muslims bribed the area district commissioner to declare Mulinde’s meetings illegal; Muslims stormed into one of the meetings and dragged him out, beating him till he lost consciousness. Police saved him.
In 2001 in Busia, while addressing another meeting, a Muslim extremist narrowly missed killing him with a sword. In 1994, he survived a gun attack at Natete, near Kampala, when a bullet narrowly missed him. He said that as he fell into muddy waters, his Muslim attackers, thinking they had killed him, said, “Allah akbar.”
Because of the threats against him – in October Muslim extremists sent him text messages threatening to assassinate him – Mulinde had relocated to another area in Uganda.
He has vowed to continue fighting for the rights of the former Muslims haunted by radical Islamists.
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
Was He attached by a Muslim assailant? Suspect in Pastor Mulinde acid attack arrested
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Man held over acid attack on top city pastor
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1295578/-/bfk0u7z/-/index.html
By STEPHEN OTAGE & ANDREW BAGALA
Posted Tuesday, December 27 2011 at 00:00
The police in Kampala are holding a man in connection wiht a Christmas Eve acid attack on Pastor Umar Mulinde.
Apostle Mulinde, who denounced Islam after he became a born-again Christian, was left with a damaged right eye and a disfigured face on Christmas Eve after an assailant splashed acid on his face at Namasuba, a Kampala suburb.
Police say the suspect is in their custody but they would not reveal his identity because the case is still at a sensitive stage. “One person has been arrested and he is helping us with the investigations,” the police spokesman, Mr Asuman Mugenyi, said.
Gospel Life Church leader Apostle Mulinde, who is currently admitted to International Hospital Kampala, attracted many followers after he converted from Islam and became a strong critic of the teachings of Prophet Muhammad.
He told Daily Monitor yesterday from his hospital bed that he believes that the attack that happened around 9pm at his church had connections to his preaching and interpretation of the Quran.
Targeted
“I have been witch-hunted since I converted to Christianity. I do not know which crime I committed because I have been receiving threats and the authorities kept ignoring them not knowing it would result into this,” Apostle Mulinde said.
He said as he was leaving his church, a person who claimed to be one of his flock called him aside pretending that he was wanted. He obliged. “When I turned around, the assailant poured acid on my face which splashed on the right side of the face, suit and shirt affecting my eye and face,” Apostle Mulinde said.
He added that shortly after the incident, he heard one of the assailants shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is Great).
Mr Mugenyi yesterday said they have not yet reached a conclusion that the attack was religiously motivated. Religious motivated violence have been rare in Uganda in recent history.
The attacks have mainly been common in domestic related violence or over personal and business rivalries.
editorial@ug.nationmedia.com
Suspect in Pastor Mulinde acid attack arrested
Publish Date: Dec 26, 2011
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/315086-Suspect-in-Pastor-Mulinde-acid-attack-arrested.html
By Taddeo Bwambale and Nicholas Kajoba
Three days after a suspected acid attack on Pastor Umar Mulinde of Gospel Life Church, Police has arrested one person in connection with the incident.
Addressing a press briefing on Monday, Police spokesperson, Asuman Mugenyi said one person had been arrested but declined to disclose the details. He confirmed that acid was used in the attack and said the police was carrying out investigations to establish the motive of the attackers.
Unknown people attacked Mulinde on Christmas Eve at about 9:00pm shortly after he returned from a church crusade. The attackers poured acid on him, leaving his face partly disfigured and his right eye is blinded.
His face, neck and arms are covered with deep black scars and his lips are swollen.
Narrating his ordeal to journalists at International Hospital, Kampala (IHK) , Mulinde said he was attacked by unidentified men whose target was to kill him.
“I was attacked by a man who claimed to be a Christian. He called out to me shouting, “pastor, pastor’ and as I turned to see who he was, he poured acid which burnt part of my face,” he said.
“As I turned away from the attacker, another man poured the liquid on my back and ran away shouting ‘Allah Akbar (God is great).”
Pastor Mulinde said he caught a glimpse of the attackers but could not disclose the details as this would jeopardise investigations. He blamed the attack to some people who are opposed to his conversion from the Islamic faith to Christianity.
“I have got threats for a very long time, but didn’t take them serious until now,” he said.
Mulinde was raised in a staunch Muslim family and his father served as the local Imam. He was a sheikh before getting converted to Christianity.
Mulinde said the attack occurred shortly after his church had concluded a seven-day crusade at in which over 300 people gave their lives to the Lord.
“We went back to our church to test the sound equipment and everything was perfect. We had organised a Christmas party for the converts when this happened,” he said. His followers rushed him to Mengo Hospital, where he was referred to IHK.
Efforts to get a comment from doctors about Mulinde’s condition were futile as hospital authorities blocked journalists from talking to them. A source told New Vision that doctors were trying hard to save his sight and contain the acid from spreading to other parts of his body.
Pastor Umar Mulinde blinded by acid attack
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/315067-Pastor-Umar-Mulinde-blinded-by-acid-attack.html
Publish Date: Dec 25, 2011
By Nicholas Kajoba
As many Ugandans celebrate Christmas, Pastor Umar Mulinde of Gospel Life Church, Namasuba was lying in pain following an acid attack by unknown person last night.
The unfortunate incident happened at mid-night, after Pastor Mulinde led his congregation into night prayers that ushered in Christmas.
Witness says that after the attacker poured acid onto the pastor’s face he took off before he could be recognized. Mulinde fall down and started shouting calling for help from his followers who rushed him to Mengo hospital.
“The pastor conducted prayers in joyful mood and even asked Christian to repent for their sins. But all of sudden after the prayers when the pastor was leaving the church somebody came and attacked him with acid,” a witness said.
Umar is a graduate of Islamic propagation and a sheikh who grew up in a staunch Muslim family where his father was the local Imam. He heard the Gospel clearly explained in relation to his religion at an outdoor meeting when he was a university student.
He is an evangelist and church planter with an outstanding ability to debate and challenge the religion from which he came in any public forum. His controversies preaching about his past religion (Muslim) had always caused him to be at logger heads with some Muslims.
Mulinde was later transferred to International Hospital Kampala (IHK) where he was taken to Intensive care unit. Pastor’s wife, Eva Mulinde who is looking after him in the hospital said that the patient was still lying in agony and need prayers.
“We took him to mengo hospital and transferred him here because his condition was not good. But we pray he gets well soon,’ she said.
Accessing him at the hospital is not easy because the room where he is lying was guarded by people who identified themselves as believers from Kibuye prayer palace.
Gospel life Church International is a Bible-Believing, Christ-Centered, Life Group Centered and Mission Sending Ministries that is characterized with The Word, Prayer, Passion for souls, Praise and Worship,
Eby’okwokya Paasita Mulinde bibatabudde
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/news/60811-Eby-okwokya--Paasita-Mulinde--bibatabudde.html
Dec 27, 2011
Bya Robert Mutebi, Nicholas Kajoba ne Joseph Mutebi
EBY’ ENSONGA eyayiirizza asidi Paasita w’Abalokole, Umaru Mulinde byongedde okulanda abamu ku baliraanwa be bwe bategeezezza nti enkaayana z’ettaka z’aludde nazo zandiba nga ze zaavuddeko obulumbaganyi buno.
Mulinde baamuteeze ava mu kkanisa ye okubuulira enjiri ekiro ne bamuyiira asidi bwe yabadde alinnya mmotoka ye okudda awaka.
Omutume Mulinde ow’ekkanisa ya Gospel Life Church International e Namasuba ku lw’e Ntebe ye yagudde ku kibambulira mu kiro ekyakeesezza Ssekukkulu nga kyajje ave ku kituuti mu zimu ku nkung’aana z’abadde nazo mu keetereekerero ka Ssekukkulu.
Asidi eyamuyiiriddwa yayiise ku ludda lwa mmotoka ye ey’ekia kya Toyota Surf olwa ddereeva lwonna n’akulukutira ku ndabirwamu.
“Twabadde tuli wano ne tuwulira enduulu ng’omusajja awanjaga nti bamuyiiridde asidi era twagenze okutuuka nga ye musumba muliraanwa waffe kwe kusooka okumuddusa mu kalwaliro akamu e Namasuba gye baatugobye ne tugenda ku International Hospital e Namuwongo,” Moses Kalyango omu ku baliraanwa be ku kkanisa ye bwe yategeezezza.
Omu ku baliraanwa ba Mulinde ku kkanisa ye yategeezezza nti ku makya baalabye abavubuka basatu abaakedde okutuula ku kifugi ky’omu ku baliraanwa baabwe nti era bwe baababuuzizza kye balinda nga batamattama kwe kubagobawo kyokka omu n’alemerawo kyokka n’ ab- alala obwedda bagira ne badda.
Omu eyabadde ayambadde enkofiira ye yasigaddewo ppaka obudde kuziba era ono gwe bateebereza okuyiira omusumba asidi ku ssaawa 5:30 ez’ekiro kubanga bwe yabadde adduka ng’ayambukira mu mayumba enkofiira ye yamuguddeko n’atadda kuginona era poliisi yagitutte.
MULINDE BY’AGAMBA
Omutume Mulinde yasinzidde ku kitanda mu ddwaaliro gy’ajjanjabirwa erya International Hospital n’agamba nti abamuwalanya olw’okukyusa eddiini n’ava mu Busiraamu n’alokoka be bali emabega w’okumwokya asidi.
Agamba nti: Nnabadde naakava e Masajja mu lukung’aana lw’enjiri omwalokokedde abantu abasoba mu 1000 nga nzize ku kkanisa yange okuttaanya enteekateeka z’akabaga k’abo abaalokose era mba nva mu kkanisa okugenda mu paakingi okuggyayo mmotoka yange omusajja omu kwe kumpita nti musumba, bwe nnakyuse okumulaba n’anjiira asidi mu feesi.
Mba nkyalaajaana omulala n’anva emabega naye n’anjiira asidi mu mugongo era wano nnapadde bupaazi okudda gye nva nga sitegeera kintuseeko.Eyasoose okunjiira asidi nnamulabye era olwamaze n’agamba nti…”Allah Akbar…..(Ekivuunulwa nti Katonda munene).
“Abantu abamu balowooza nti zaabadde mpalana z’abakazi naye ekyo ssi kituufu kubanga mukyala wange Evelyn Mulinde (nga bw’amusongako mu ddwaaliro) mmulinamu abaana mukaaga nga yaakamala n’okunzaalira abalongo n’olwekyo ssisobola kumugattako,” Mulinde bwe yannyonnyodde.
Omwogezi wa Poliisi, Asuman Mugenyi yagambye nti baakakwatayo omuntu omu ku kikolwa kino kyokka yagaaanyi okumwogera amannya kubanga kijja kutabulatabula okubuuliriza kwa Poliisi.
Kyokka baliraanwa ba Mulinde bagamba nti aludde ng’agugulana n’eyamuguza ettaka kwe yazimba ekkanisa ye ku poloti 595 mu Namuli Zooni e Najjanankumbi mu mwaka 2008 oluvannyuma lw’omusumba okusalawo okuzimba ku kifo kyonna n’atwaliramu n’akafo akagambibwa nti baali balagaanye okukalekawo.
Mulinde y’ani?
1 Yazaalwa mu maka Amayisiraamu era kitaawe yali Imaamu wa Muzikiti
2 Yasooka kukuguka mu by’eddiini y’Ekisiraamu by’alinamu Ddiguli eya El-Dawa
3 Yali yeetaba nnyo mu kuwakana okwategekebwanga mu bisaawe ng’Abasiraamu battunka n’Abalokole era yajulizanga ebyawandiikibwa ng’asemba nti eddiini y’Obusiraamu y’entuufu.
4 Mu 1990 yasalawo n’alokoka era n’atandika okuvumirira eddiini y’Obusiraamu.
5 Yatandika ekkanisa ya Gospel Life Church Namasuba.
6 Talina luganda ku musumba omulala bwe bafaananya erinnya John Mulinde.
Omutume Mulinde bamuyiiridde asidi
Dec 26, 2011
Bya Robert Mutebi
OMUSUMBA w’ekkanisa y’Abalokole mu Kampala ab’ettima bamuteeze ng’ava mu kkanisa ye okubuulira enjiri ekiro ne bamuyiira asidi bwe yabadde alinnya mmotoka ye okudda ewaka.
Omutume Umar Mulinde ow’ekkanisa ya Gospel Life Church International e Najjanankumbi yeeyagudde ku kibambulira kino mu kiro ekikeesa OLwomukaaga ku ssaawa 5:30 nga ky'ajje ave ku kituuti mu zimu ku nkung'aana z’abadde nazo mu keetereekerero ka Ssekukkulu.
Asidi eyamuyiiriddwa yayiise ku ludda lwa mmotoka ye olwa ddereeva lwonna n’akulukutira ku ndabirwamu.
“Twabadde tuli wano ne tuwulira enduulu nga z’amusajja ng’awanjaga nti bamuyiiridde asidi era twagenze okutuuka nga ye musumba muliraanwa waffe kwe kusooka okumuddusa mu kalwaaliro akamu e Namasuba gye baatugobye ne tugenda ku International” Moses Kalyango omu ku baliraanwa ba Mulinde ku kkanisa ye bwe yategeezezza.
Ye Omutume asinzidde ku kitanda mu ddwaliro gy'ajjanjabirwa erya International Hospital n’agamba nti abamuwalana olw’okukyusa eddiini n’ava mu Busiraamu n’alokoka be bali emabega w’okumwokya asidi.
“Kyemmanyi eyanjiridde asidi yazze wakati wa ssaawa 3:00 ne 4:00 ez’ekiro era yansig'aanye nnaakava e Masajja mu lukung'aana lw’enjiri omwalokokedde abantu abasoba mu 1000”. Mulinde bwe yategeezezza
Wabula omwogezi wa Poliisi mu ggwanga Asuman Mugyenyi yategeezezza mu lukung’aana lw’abamawulire nti baakakwatayo omuntu omu ku bateeberezebwa okwenyigira mu kikolwa kino kyokka n'agaana okwatuukiriza amannya ge n’ebimukwatako. Mugyenyi yagambye nti poliisi ekyagenda mu maaso n’okukola okunoonyereza okuzuula abeenyigidde muy kikolwa kino.
Acid attack on Afghan schoolgirls
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7724505.stm
Acid-attack-on-boy-who-refused-sex-with-Muslim-cleric
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/1453786/Acid-attack-on-boy-who-refused-sex-with-Muslim-cleric.html
Islamic Acid Attacks
http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/islamic-acid-attacks-more-muslim.html
Man held over acid attack on top city pastor
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1295578/-/bfk0u7z/-/index.html
By STEPHEN OTAGE & ANDREW BAGALA
Posted Tuesday, December 27 2011 at 00:00
The police in Kampala are holding a man in connection wiht a Christmas Eve acid attack on Pastor Umar Mulinde.
Apostle Mulinde, who denounced Islam after he became a born-again Christian, was left with a damaged right eye and a disfigured face on Christmas Eve after an assailant splashed acid on his face at Namasuba, a Kampala suburb.
Police say the suspect is in their custody but they would not reveal his identity because the case is still at a sensitive stage. “One person has been arrested and he is helping us with the investigations,” the police spokesman, Mr Asuman Mugenyi, said.
Gospel Life Church leader Apostle Mulinde, who is currently admitted to International Hospital Kampala, attracted many followers after he converted from Islam and became a strong critic of the teachings of Prophet Muhammad.
He told Daily Monitor yesterday from his hospital bed that he believes that the attack that happened around 9pm at his church had connections to his preaching and interpretation of the Quran.
Targeted
“I have been witch-hunted since I converted to Christianity. I do not know which crime I committed because I have been receiving threats and the authorities kept ignoring them not knowing it would result into this,” Apostle Mulinde said.
He said as he was leaving his church, a person who claimed to be one of his flock called him aside pretending that he was wanted. He obliged. “When I turned around, the assailant poured acid on my face which splashed on the right side of the face, suit and shirt affecting my eye and face,” Apostle Mulinde said.
He added that shortly after the incident, he heard one of the assailants shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is Great).
Mr Mugenyi yesterday said they have not yet reached a conclusion that the attack was religiously motivated. Religious motivated violence have been rare in Uganda in recent history.
The attacks have mainly been common in domestic related violence or over personal and business rivalries.
editorial@ug.nationmedia.com
Suspect in Pastor Mulinde acid attack arrested
Publish Date: Dec 26, 2011
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/315086-Suspect-in-Pastor-Mulinde-acid-attack-arrested.html
By Taddeo Bwambale and Nicholas Kajoba
Three days after a suspected acid attack on Pastor Umar Mulinde of Gospel Life Church, Police has arrested one person in connection with the incident.
Addressing a press briefing on Monday, Police spokesperson, Asuman Mugenyi said one person had been arrested but declined to disclose the details. He confirmed that acid was used in the attack and said the police was carrying out investigations to establish the motive of the attackers.
Unknown people attacked Mulinde on Christmas Eve at about 9:00pm shortly after he returned from a church crusade. The attackers poured acid on him, leaving his face partly disfigured and his right eye is blinded.
His face, neck and arms are covered with deep black scars and his lips are swollen.
Narrating his ordeal to journalists at International Hospital, Kampala (IHK) , Mulinde said he was attacked by unidentified men whose target was to kill him.
“I was attacked by a man who claimed to be a Christian. He called out to me shouting, “pastor, pastor’ and as I turned to see who he was, he poured acid which burnt part of my face,” he said.
“As I turned away from the attacker, another man poured the liquid on my back and ran away shouting ‘Allah Akbar (God is great).”
Pastor Mulinde said he caught a glimpse of the attackers but could not disclose the details as this would jeopardise investigations. He blamed the attack to some people who are opposed to his conversion from the Islamic faith to Christianity.
“I have got threats for a very long time, but didn’t take them serious until now,” he said.
Mulinde was raised in a staunch Muslim family and his father served as the local Imam. He was a sheikh before getting converted to Christianity.
Mulinde said the attack occurred shortly after his church had concluded a seven-day crusade at in which over 300 people gave their lives to the Lord.
“We went back to our church to test the sound equipment and everything was perfect. We had organised a Christmas party for the converts when this happened,” he said. His followers rushed him to Mengo Hospital, where he was referred to IHK.
Efforts to get a comment from doctors about Mulinde’s condition were futile as hospital authorities blocked journalists from talking to them. A source told New Vision that doctors were trying hard to save his sight and contain the acid from spreading to other parts of his body.
Pastor Umar Mulinde blinded by acid attack
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/315067-Pastor-Umar-Mulinde-blinded-by-acid-attack.html
Publish Date: Dec 25, 2011
By Nicholas Kajoba
As many Ugandans celebrate Christmas, Pastor Umar Mulinde of Gospel Life Church, Namasuba was lying in pain following an acid attack by unknown person last night.
The unfortunate incident happened at mid-night, after Pastor Mulinde led his congregation into night prayers that ushered in Christmas.
Witness says that after the attacker poured acid onto the pastor’s face he took off before he could be recognized. Mulinde fall down and started shouting calling for help from his followers who rushed him to Mengo hospital.
“The pastor conducted prayers in joyful mood and even asked Christian to repent for their sins. But all of sudden after the prayers when the pastor was leaving the church somebody came and attacked him with acid,” a witness said.
Umar is a graduate of Islamic propagation and a sheikh who grew up in a staunch Muslim family where his father was the local Imam. He heard the Gospel clearly explained in relation to his religion at an outdoor meeting when he was a university student.
He is an evangelist and church planter with an outstanding ability to debate and challenge the religion from which he came in any public forum. His controversies preaching about his past religion (Muslim) had always caused him to be at logger heads with some Muslims.
Mulinde was later transferred to International Hospital Kampala (IHK) where he was taken to Intensive care unit. Pastor’s wife, Eva Mulinde who is looking after him in the hospital said that the patient was still lying in agony and need prayers.
“We took him to mengo hospital and transferred him here because his condition was not good. But we pray he gets well soon,’ she said.
Accessing him at the hospital is not easy because the room where he is lying was guarded by people who identified themselves as believers from Kibuye prayer palace.
Gospel life Church International is a Bible-Believing, Christ-Centered, Life Group Centered and Mission Sending Ministries that is characterized with The Word, Prayer, Passion for souls, Praise and Worship,
Eby’okwokya Paasita Mulinde bibatabudde
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/news/60811-Eby-okwokya--Paasita-Mulinde--bibatabudde.html
Dec 27, 2011
Bya Robert Mutebi, Nicholas Kajoba ne Joseph Mutebi
EBY’ ENSONGA eyayiirizza asidi Paasita w’Abalokole, Umaru Mulinde byongedde okulanda abamu ku baliraanwa be bwe bategeezezza nti enkaayana z’ettaka z’aludde nazo zandiba nga ze zaavuddeko obulumbaganyi buno.
Mulinde baamuteeze ava mu kkanisa ye okubuulira enjiri ekiro ne bamuyiira asidi bwe yabadde alinnya mmotoka ye okudda awaka.
Omutume Mulinde ow’ekkanisa ya Gospel Life Church International e Namasuba ku lw’e Ntebe ye yagudde ku kibambulira mu kiro ekyakeesezza Ssekukkulu nga kyajje ave ku kituuti mu zimu ku nkung’aana z’abadde nazo mu keetereekerero ka Ssekukkulu.
Asidi eyamuyiiriddwa yayiise ku ludda lwa mmotoka ye ey’ekia kya Toyota Surf olwa ddereeva lwonna n’akulukutira ku ndabirwamu.
“Twabadde tuli wano ne tuwulira enduulu ng’omusajja awanjaga nti bamuyiiridde asidi era twagenze okutuuka nga ye musumba muliraanwa waffe kwe kusooka okumuddusa mu kalwaliro akamu e Namasuba gye baatugobye ne tugenda ku International Hospital e Namuwongo,” Moses Kalyango omu ku baliraanwa be ku kkanisa ye bwe yategeezezza.
Omu ku baliraanwa ba Mulinde ku kkanisa ye yategeezezza nti ku makya baalabye abavubuka basatu abaakedde okutuula ku kifugi ky’omu ku baliraanwa baabwe nti era bwe baababuuzizza kye balinda nga batamattama kwe kubagobawo kyokka omu n’alemerawo kyokka n’ ab- alala obwedda bagira ne badda.
Omu eyabadde ayambadde enkofiira ye yasigaddewo ppaka obudde kuziba era ono gwe bateebereza okuyiira omusumba asidi ku ssaawa 5:30 ez’ekiro kubanga bwe yabadde adduka ng’ayambukira mu mayumba enkofiira ye yamuguddeko n’atadda kuginona era poliisi yagitutte.
MULINDE BY’AGAMBA
Omutume Mulinde yasinzidde ku kitanda mu ddwaaliro gy’ajjanjabirwa erya International Hospital n’agamba nti abamuwalanya olw’okukyusa eddiini n’ava mu Busiraamu n’alokoka be bali emabega w’okumwokya asidi.
Agamba nti: Nnabadde naakava e Masajja mu lukung’aana lw’enjiri omwalokokedde abantu abasoba mu 1000 nga nzize ku kkanisa yange okuttaanya enteekateeka z’akabaga k’abo abaalokose era mba nva mu kkanisa okugenda mu paakingi okuggyayo mmotoka yange omusajja omu kwe kumpita nti musumba, bwe nnakyuse okumulaba n’anjiira asidi mu feesi.
Mba nkyalaajaana omulala n’anva emabega naye n’anjiira asidi mu mugongo era wano nnapadde bupaazi okudda gye nva nga sitegeera kintuseeko.Eyasoose okunjiira asidi nnamulabye era olwamaze n’agamba nti…”Allah Akbar…..(Ekivuunulwa nti Katonda munene).
“Abantu abamu balowooza nti zaabadde mpalana z’abakazi naye ekyo ssi kituufu kubanga mukyala wange Evelyn Mulinde (nga bw’amusongako mu ddwaaliro) mmulinamu abaana mukaaga nga yaakamala n’okunzaalira abalongo n’olwekyo ssisobola kumugattako,” Mulinde bwe yannyonnyodde.
Omwogezi wa Poliisi, Asuman Mugenyi yagambye nti baakakwatayo omuntu omu ku kikolwa kino kyokka yagaaanyi okumwogera amannya kubanga kijja kutabulatabula okubuuliriza kwa Poliisi.
Kyokka baliraanwa ba Mulinde bagamba nti aludde ng’agugulana n’eyamuguza ettaka kwe yazimba ekkanisa ye ku poloti 595 mu Namuli Zooni e Najjanankumbi mu mwaka 2008 oluvannyuma lw’omusumba okusalawo okuzimba ku kifo kyonna n’atwaliramu n’akafo akagambibwa nti baali balagaanye okukalekawo.
Mulinde y’ani?
1 Yazaalwa mu maka Amayisiraamu era kitaawe yali Imaamu wa Muzikiti
2 Yasooka kukuguka mu by’eddiini y’Ekisiraamu by’alinamu Ddiguli eya El-Dawa
3 Yali yeetaba nnyo mu kuwakana okwategekebwanga mu bisaawe ng’Abasiraamu battunka n’Abalokole era yajulizanga ebyawandiikibwa ng’asemba nti eddiini y’Obusiraamu y’entuufu.
4 Mu 1990 yasalawo n’alokoka era n’atandika okuvumirira eddiini y’Obusiraamu.
5 Yatandika ekkanisa ya Gospel Life Church Namasuba.
6 Talina luganda ku musumba omulala bwe bafaananya erinnya John Mulinde.
Omutume Mulinde bamuyiiridde asidi
Dec 26, 2011
Bya Robert Mutebi
OMUSUMBA w’ekkanisa y’Abalokole mu Kampala ab’ettima bamuteeze ng’ava mu kkanisa ye okubuulira enjiri ekiro ne bamuyiira asidi bwe yabadde alinnya mmotoka ye okudda ewaka.
Omutume Umar Mulinde ow’ekkanisa ya Gospel Life Church International e Najjanankumbi yeeyagudde ku kibambulira kino mu kiro ekikeesa OLwomukaaga ku ssaawa 5:30 nga ky'ajje ave ku kituuti mu zimu ku nkung'aana z’abadde nazo mu keetereekerero ka Ssekukkulu.
Asidi eyamuyiiriddwa yayiise ku ludda lwa mmotoka ye olwa ddereeva lwonna n’akulukutira ku ndabirwamu.
“Twabadde tuli wano ne tuwulira enduulu nga z’amusajja ng’awanjaga nti bamuyiiridde asidi era twagenze okutuuka nga ye musumba muliraanwa waffe kwe kusooka okumuddusa mu kalwaaliro akamu e Namasuba gye baatugobye ne tugenda ku International” Moses Kalyango omu ku baliraanwa ba Mulinde ku kkanisa ye bwe yategeezezza.
Ye Omutume asinzidde ku kitanda mu ddwaliro gy'ajjanjabirwa erya International Hospital n’agamba nti abamuwalana olw’okukyusa eddiini n’ava mu Busiraamu n’alokoka be bali emabega w’okumwokya asidi.
“Kyemmanyi eyanjiridde asidi yazze wakati wa ssaawa 3:00 ne 4:00 ez’ekiro era yansig'aanye nnaakava e Masajja mu lukung'aana lw’enjiri omwalokokedde abantu abasoba mu 1000”. Mulinde bwe yategeezezza
Wabula omwogezi wa Poliisi mu ggwanga Asuman Mugyenyi yategeezezza mu lukung’aana lw’abamawulire nti baakakwatayo omuntu omu ku bateeberezebwa okwenyigira mu kikolwa kino kyokka n'agaana okwatuukiriza amannya ge n’ebimukwatako. Mugyenyi yagambye nti poliisi ekyagenda mu maaso n’okukola okunoonyereza okuzuula abeenyigidde muy kikolwa kino.
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