The strange Baranda of Masaka
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/sunday_life/the_strange_baranda_of_masaka_71098.shtml
SERURANDA CULT EXPOSED
http://africacfar.blogspot.com/2008/11/weekly-round-up-sserulanda-special.html
Cult Invasion
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2007/03/cult-invasion-preacher-calls-himself.html
Religious Sect Stores Dead Bodies
http://www.zibb.com/article/4144940/Religious+Sect+Stores+Dead+Bodies
A RELIGIOUS sect that preserves dead bodies is seeking to build a multi-million dollar autonomous city in Rakai district.
The Sserulanda Spiritual Foundation hopes to turn 200 square miles adjacent to Lake Victoria into a free trade zone, dubbed Ssessamirembe Spiritual City. The area covers the sub-counties of Kabira, Kakuuto and parts of Kooki.
The group, suspected to be a cult, allows its members to choose whether to be buried or have their bodies preserved and kept in a common room, when they die.
On Wednesday, Saturday Vision saw three of the former members' bodies in a secluded permanent house in Kabira village, about 20 minutes' drive off the Masaka-Rakai highway.
While two of the bodies lay in coffins, another - belonging to a woman - was on a cradle neatly covered with white linen. Beside the bodies were lit candles. An elderly woman clad in gloves and a lesu was treating the bodies. The members strictly prohibit visitors from taking pictures inside the room.
"We can even preserve your smile if you asked to have it preserved," a member told this reporter.
Saturday Vision also saw three grave yards, implying that the majority of the group's members are buried. Some graves were bigger than others.
"Each grave is given a different value, depending on whether the person was an initiate (has spiritual power)," explains the group's general administrator, Sseewabwewi Kyalisiima.
Contrary to common practice where graves are dug, here they are built up to waist level so that the body lies at ground level. This is allegedly to imitate the legendary Egyptian Pyramids.
Sserulanda's members include high-profile personalities such as Gertrude Njuba, a presidential advisor on land matters. It is headed by His Imperishable Glory Ssaabayimiransibo Bambi Baaba Baabuwe, a Ugandan who has been living in the US for the last 15 years.
God in human form
Baaba is said to wield immense power over his followers, who consider him as a "god in human form." He is said to have got a vision as early as three years of age to build a city and eradicate poverty. His real name was Jozzewafe Mugonza, and he grew up as a herbalist, diviner and healer, operating in Kyotera and Kalisizo in Rakai district. He reportedly later linked up with some Indian businessmen in Kyotera who sponsored him to travel to India in 1969.
There he went through what his followers call the "12 stages of initiation" and became a "disciple of a divine living Master of Ancient Wisdom". By the late 1970's, he reportedly started buying land from individual households in Rakai, until he was able to secure a vast expanse of land.
When visiting the place, Saturday Vision found a huge plot which has shrubs and scattered shacks. A dusty murram road winds its way through the grass and anthills to a huge shrine, curved out of a rock. The man-made cave has a purple curtain hanging at the entrance. No one enters with shoes. Inside, a fire place is surrounded by dry grass that is carefully spread out for visitors to sit on. The fire burns day and night. In one corner is a portrait of the spiritual leader, Baaba.
Members are strictly forbidden from eating meat or any animal product, and drinking alcohol. This is allegedly in line with the teachings of Baaba, who combines Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and traditional Bachwezi practices in his religion.
Other practices include common ownership of some assets for the "common good" like land, kitchen, cattle kraal, reference library and burial grounds. Though members are allowed to own some personal private property like houses, cars, radios or television sets, they are all required to contribute to the common good.
Anyone who fails to contribute, risks having their membership cancelled or be denied access to communally owned resources.
The group has a charter which specifies how they will govern themselves in the autonomous city, according to information posted on their website www.sseesamirembe.com. They will have powers to enact their own laws, ordinances, by-laws and procedures, as well as provide and maintain a security force for the protection of the inhabitants of the city. Their judicial system will be led by a "High Chancellor" and only permanent residents of the zone will be eligible to hold the office of a "Governing Chancellor". They will provide their own social services and infrastructure, independent of the central Government.
Key projects already planned by the group include an international airport, an airport city, hotels, international schools, shopping malls, business centres and cultural villages. It is planned to accommodate about 500,000 people.
Chinese investor
To build the city, the group plans to strike agreements with investors. Already, they have signed a deal with a Chinese company, Paradise International Investment, to invest $1.5b (sh2.6trillion) in setting up infrastructure. The investment, set to kick off in December 2008, is said to become the single largest Chinese private investment in East Africa.
However, some people regard the proposed project as a dream. "This is a fairly tale," says an LC official of Kabira sub-county, who requested anonymity. "They have been talking about it since the 1980s but we have not seen anything."
Some people also fear that this is likely to be another cult like Joseph Kibwetere's Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, which forced its members to live in an isolated community in the hills of Kanungu, western Uganda. Thousands of them were burnt to death in the church on March 17, 2000.
But the group's leaders say they are being witch-hunted. "When people like Karim (Hirji) or Sudhir (Ruparelia) are investing, do you first ask whether they are Hindu?" asks Beenunula Eyeenunula, who has been appointed governor of the proposed eco-city.
Eyeenunula also insists that the aim is to attract investments to benefit rural people. "Our spiritual group is a foundation, just like Centenary Bank was founded by the Catholic Church and anybody can access it. Likewise, this city will become a free trade zone, like Dubai."
The trade zone is being aggressively promoted by Kagera Eco-Cities, an organisation owned by Eyeenunula and Njuba.
Commission of inquiry
The group is, however, under fire for its controversial practices. Earlier this year, President Yoweri Museveni set up a commission of inquiry into the activities of the Sserulanda group. There had been reports that the group was making ARVs. The commission was therefore asked to investigate "allegations of divine healing energy and capacity to cure incurable diseases".
The investigations are still going on, chaired by the dean of Makerere University Medical School, Prof. Nelson Ssewankambo.
"There have been a lot of stories and rumours about the foundation in terms of spiritual healing, and how they handle the dead people. We need to understand the organisation's activities, leadership and membership. This is crucial before the Government gives the go-ahead for a free trade zone," says Ssewankambo.
The commission also comprises the director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre, Dr. Peter Mugyenyi, and Dr. Grace Nambatya, head of research at the Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Laboratories. Other members are Richard Tushemereirwe, a state house official, and Harriet Tukamushaba, a state attorney.
Meeting the probe team on Wednesday, Presidential adviser Njuba wondered how the spiritual matters would be established.
"How will you ascertain the spiritual healing? How will you know each individual's reason for joining the project?"
Reacting to the concerns, the probe chairman Ssewankambo said they would conduct public hearings.
"We will advertise so that people come and tell us what they know about the spiritual foundation. When we reach a point where we don't understand the issues of spiritualism, we will notify the President that we are not able to proceed."
Saturday Vision has learnt that the proposal for an eco-city had already been endorsed by the Government in a memorandum of understanding that was signed by state minister for investments Ssemakula Kiwanuka on January 18, 2006. Kiwanuka was not available for comment by press time yesterday.
The strange Baranda of Masaka
By Nansamba Odiirah
Sunday Life , September 7, 2008
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/sunday_life/the_strange_baranda_of_masaka_71098.shtml
I first heard of Baranda group of people when I was in my first year at university. My roommate had relatives who were part of the group. Her cousin, a member of the Baranda group, used to visit her and they would argue for hours about their Baranda way of life.
I could hardly believe what I used to hear them argue about. I could not believe that after all the years Christianity has been in Uganda, there were still some people who didn’t believe in God but in a human being. Three years down the road, I decided to investigate their lifestyle.
On Friday August 26th I went to Kyotera in Rakai district. My former roommate had given me directions to her uncle, Mr. John Baguma, who is a well-known teacher in the village and one of the elders of the Baranda. He is also a father-in-law to Mugonza Bambi Baaba, the founder of the Sseruranda group.
From Kyotera town centre, I took a boda boda to Kakyanga, Bukala Village, where these people live. We rode through small footpaths in between bushes for over nine kilometres, till we reached Mr Baguma’s home. He welcomed us warmly, and treated me like a visitor other than a journalist, especially because I was friends with his niece.
After lunch at 3p.m, he settled in his chair to answer all my questions concerning his “religion”. Baguma became a Muranda in 1982, and his whole family had been part of it until 2003 when he learnt that his first-born had joined the born again Christians. The other children also followed her and quit the Baranda way of life.
According to Baguma, the Baranda used to be a very big group of people, most of whom were refugees from Bulemeezi in Luweero District during the 1979 guerilla war. Mugonza, whose title is Bambi Baaba, had built his empire by then. According to the story that run in The New Vision on January 22 2006, Mugonza was a celebrated herbalist who had worked in Kyotera and Kalisizo in Rakai Districts and Nateete, a Kampala Surburb in the 1960’s.
In 1980, he was helped by Ambrosio Mazinga, a shrewd businessman, and Bjorn Simensen, a skilled steel-processing manager, to form Astral Alanda Steel Products, which took over Camapaignia, an Italian construction company that was closing operations in Kampala. Mugonza persuaded the other directors to move the steel works industry to Sseesamirembe, where his cave was located.
The industry attracted many workers, most of whom ended up as disciples of Bambi Baaba, god to all members of the Seruranda Nsulo Yóbulamu Spiritual Foundation.
According to Mr Richard Muhumuza, who was once a Muranda, the life of these people is solely in Mugonza’s hands. They do not decide on anything by themselves.
When a woman gives birth, they ring the bell to let all members know about the good news. They then call their god, Bambi Baaba, to name the child. The kind of names he gives are unique; like Bufinini, Olulimi, Omumilo, Buka, and Sewabwewi. When a young man wants to marry, Mugonza has to approve or else it’s deemed illegal.
After approval, they wait for the number of couples to get to at least six. The brides are then kept in a special room for six months without moving out. On the final day, a grand party is held and the grooms can freely take their respective brides. When a Muranda dies, the relatives have no right to bury the body.
A bell is rung and the body immediately carried to a special house called Baloola. All the members gather outside and wait for Mugonza to decide whether the body should be buried or treated and kept in the Baloola.
Once the body is in the Baloola, none is allowed to see it except the leaders who take care of bodies. I was told that most of the graves contain three to six bodies, buried at once. The names of the people in a single grave are written on top of it.
According to Baguma, the Baranda are very good and fiercely united people, as I proved when I went to meet with the leaders of this spiritual foundation. Baguma asked his son, Mugisha, to take me to the leaders, who would give me more information and confirm what I had gathered from the neighbours and other members of the foundation, on condition that I would give him transport back since the distance was long.
Mugisha, 19 and an S.5 student, was born a Muranda, but broke away while in S.2 when his elder sister preached to him. “I know all their practices, but I’m no longer part of them. Only my parents are still members,” he said.
We sat on a boda boda and headed to the leaders’ office at around 3:30 pm. On our way, we bypassed one of the prayer alters in the middle of the bush. According to Mugisha, they do not sing like other religions and cults do. Their prayer days are Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 7p.m to 9p.m.
We then got to the place where I felt like I had almost breathed my last. It was the Baloola, where the unburied bodies are kept, and where the route to the main office is. We parked the motorcycle and walked passed the Baloola to greet an old woman whom I was told looked after Mugonza before he left for USA in 1993.
I heard a bell ring, and Mugisha told me it was an alert to members to draw closer for prayers. However, the young man had misinterpreted the reason for the bell. It was an alert that there was an intruder on the “holy ground”. The next thing, I saw was people surrounding me, each one with a stick and they were panting, meaning they had run really hard!
Before I explained to them what my mission was, a phone, held by one of the leaders identified as Kasiimu, rang. The call was from one of their leaders, a top government politician’s wife. They explained to the caller what was written on my identity card and the caller demanded to talk to me. I was handed the phone, which was on hands-free because they all wanted to hear what I was going to be told.
I was not given a chance to explain anything! I was asked to leave immediately before I was beaten to death. I was given conditions if I was to come back. I was to bring letters from the ministry of information, Resident District Commissioner (RDC) of Rakai District, police, and the chairman of the area. As we waited for the motorcycle, which they had hidden already, Mugonza called from USA and was told that a reporter was trying to disturb their peace. Still on hands-free, I was handed the phone and made to stand on some raised ground in “honour” of Bambi Baaba.
This time, I was not only abused, he threatened that I would die if I dared to write any story about them and publish any picture of the house with dead bodies.
“You will be bitten by snakes, run mad, be hit by a car, develop a bad odour, and suffer until you die! I’m a very bad man whom you should never joke with,” he threatened. “I’m a holy man who has never died and I will never die like your so-called Jesus! Where were you when they were crucifying him?” he continued, threatening me in Luganda with mixed Runyankole.
After long hours of abuse and threats, I was saved by a plainclothes policeman from Kabira Police Station, who had come to visit one of the leaders, and was told about the intruder in the land. He demanded to take me to the police station to make a statement after about an hour of talking to the god.
At the police station, I was released. “These people do let anyone know about their private life. If you need information, you need enough time to befriend them and then get it slowly by slowly. You were lucky they did not harm you,” the policeman, whose name I did not even have the strength to get, told me.
By the time we went back to Kyotera, it was 8p.m and I boarded the bus to Kampala, fully terrorised.
Cult being investigated
Being headed by spiritual leader Bambi Baaba who lives in the US, in this belief, followers remove shoes before they enter an all-time fire lit cave from where they worship the picture of their believed to be god, known to them as Serulanda.
It is alleged that when a follower of the sect dies, his or her body is either reserved in special room in the shrine cave, or buried in a high built grave believed to be above the earth. However this spiritual group for the last years of has not yet received direct attack from either the Anglican, catholic or muslim community
Last month, administrators of Rakai headed by district chairperson Herman Sentongo expressed their support for the sect when he presented the group as an economically productive community to the district.
The group intends to set up a free trade zone, an airport among other developments in a bid to promote trade in Rakai however, these proposals have not officially reached the Uganda investment authoriy.
Being chaired by Professor Sewankambo, this commission was appointed by president Yoweri Museveni to preside over the Serulanda matters. (http://www.ntvuganda.co.ug/news.php?task=news&§ionid=15&&id=1492&&opt=bo)
SERURANDA GROUP IS A DANGEROUS CULT
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Seruranda_group_is_a_dangerous_cult_says_pastor_74610.shtml
Serulanda went against original
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/659209
Wednesday, 12th November, 2008
By Raymond Baguma and Darious Magara
THE Serulanda Spiritual Foundation in Rakai should be deregistered because it has contravened the objective for which it was registered and become a profit-making enterprise, a senior official from the lands ministry has said.
The sect was registered under the Trustees Incorporation Act, which specifies that bodies registered under this law should not engage in commercial activities.
The principal registrar of titles, Edward Karibwende, said the Serulanda Nsulo Y’Obulamu (Spring of Life) Spiritual Foundation was on May 26, 1987 registered with the lands ministry under this law, as a voluntary, charitable, spiritual organisation.
Other bodies that have been registered under this law include the Ramgharia Sikh Society and the Church of Uganda, which are registered as trusts.
Prof. Nelson Sewankambo, the chairperson of the commission probing the Serulanda activities, yesterday questioned the legal status of the organisation. He wondered whether the organisation’s intent to establish a Free Trade Zone in Rakai as a commercial undertaking, would not be a breach of the law under which the organisation was registered.
Karibwende said: “As a trust, the source of funding must not be from income-generating activities. If you are making profits, you cease to be a trust. It should be registered under the Companies Act.”
Karibwende said the sect should register under another law which allows them to carry out business.
“They should stop being a trust and cease to be candidates of this law. The minister can recall the registration and in my view, the registration (of Serulanda) qualifies to be recalled,” he said.
Pius Lubega, a former staff of the sect, said its leader, Bambibaaba, was obsessed with money.
Rakai leaders back Serulanda sect
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/656120
Born again churches denounce pastor Muwanguzi
http://www.ugpulse.com/articles/daily/news.asp?ID=5654
BE WARE OF THESE CULTS
CULT DATA BASE
http://www.biblebelievers.com/FalseDoctrine.html
YES: THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IS A CULT
http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/fbns/fbns46.html
http://www.rapidnet.com/%7Ejbeard/bdm/Cults/Catholicism/isitcult.htm
Catholicism... Christian or Cult?
http://www.inplainsite.org/html/catholicism.html
Legio Maria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_Maria
Movement for the restoration of the Ten Commandments
http://www.yesumulungi.com/Commentary/Comment65.htm
Jehovah's Witnesses
http://www.carm.org/witnesses.htm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6861723185926041712&q=Jehovah%27s+Witnesses&hl=en -video
http://www.johnankerberg.com/TV/ankjasrm-jehovahs-witnesses-wmv.html -video
Heresies of the witnesses
http://www.towertotruth.net/JW/jw_main.htm
Mac gregor Ministires, a ministrty for those involved in cult
http://www.macgregorministries.org/jehovahs_witnesses/jehovah_witness_index.html
Former witnesses
http://www.towertotruth.net
http://www.kevinquick.com/kkministries/books/reasoning/earth.html
FALSE DOCTRINES OF JEHOVAH WITNESSES
http://www.biblebelievers.com/FalseDoctrine.html
MORMONISM
http://www.carm.org/mormon.htm
http://www.whatismormonism.com
http://www.carm.org/search/search.pl?Terms=MORMONS
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2788963316682201540&q=MORMONs&hl=en -video
Mormons have a diffrent Jusus
http://www.towertotruth.net/Mormon/mormon_main.htm
Witnessing to Mormons
http://www.whatismormonism.com/WitnessingToMormonsWithLove.pdf
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS EXPOSED
http://www.biblebelievers.com/FalseDoctrine.html
MUST READ FOR ALL ADVENTISITS:ELLEN WHITE EXPOSED
http://www.ellenwhiteexposed.com
NEW AGE MOVEMENT
http://www.carm.org/newage.htm
GOD'S WHORES CULT
http://www.thefamily.org/ourfounder/tribute/trib_21.htm
http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/David_Berg
http://www.rickross.com/groups/family.html
http://www.rickross.com/reference/family/family45.html
http://www.thefamily.org/ourfounder/tribute/tribute.htm
Flirty Fishing
http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Flirty_Fishing
Cult Information centre
http://www.cultinformation.org.uk/links.html
Religious sect stores dead bodies
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/653999
Friday, 10th October, 2008
By Carol Natukunda
A RELIGIOUS sect that preserves dead bodies is seeking to build a multi-million dollar autonomous city in Rakai district.
The Sserulanda Spiritual Foundation hopes to turn 200 square miles adjacent to Lake Victoria into a free trade zone, dubbed Ssessamirembe Spiritual City.
The area covers the sub-counties of Kabira, Kakuuto and parts of Kooki.
The group, suspected to be a cult, allows its members to choose whether to be buried or have their bodies preserved and kept in a common room, when they die.
On Wednesday, Saturday Vision saw three of the former members’ bodies in a secluded permanent house in Kabira village, about 20 minutes’ drive off the Masaka-Rakai highway.
While two of the bodies lay in coffins, another – belonging to a woman - was on a cradle neatly covered with white linen. Beside the bodies were lit candles. An elderly woman clad in gloves and a lesu was treating the bodies. The members strictly prohibit visitors from taking pictures inside the room.
“We can even preserve your smile if you asked to have it preserved,” a member told this reporter.
Saturday Vision also saw three grave yards, implying that the majority of the group’s members are buried. Some graves were bigger than others.
“Each grave is given a different value, depending on whether the person was an initiate (has spiritual power),” explains the group’s general administrator, Sseewabwewi Kyalisiima.
Contrary to common practice where graves are dug, here they are built up to waist level so that the body lies at ground level. This is allegedly to imitate the legendary Egyptian Pyramids.
Sserulanda’s members include high-profile personalities such as Gertrude Njuba, a presidential advisor on land matters. It is headed by His Imperishable Glory Ssaabayimiransibo Bambi Baaba Baabuwe, a Ugandan who has been living in the US for the last 15 years.
God in human form
Baaba is said to wield immense power over his followers, who consider him as a “god in human form.” He is said to have got a vision as early as three years of age to build a city and eradicate poverty. His real name was Jozzewafe Mugonza, and he grew up as a herbalist, diviner and healer, operating in Kyotera and Kalisizo in Rakai district. He reportedly later linked up with some Indian businessmen in Kyotera who sponsored him to travel to India in 1969. There he went through what his followers call the “12 stages of initiation” and became a “disciple of a divine living Master of Ancient Wisdom”. By the late 1970’s, he reportedly started buying land from individual households in Rakai, until he was able to secure a vast expanse of land.
When visiting the place, Saturday Vision found a huge plot which has shrubs and scattered shacks. A dusty murram road winds its way through the grass and anthills to a huge shrine, curved out of a rock. The man-made cave has a purple curtain hanging at the entrance. No one enters with shoes. Inside, a fire place is surrounded by dry grass that is carefully spread out for visitors to sit on. The fire burns day and night. In one corner is a portrait of the spiritual leader, Baaba.
Members are strictly forbidden from eating meat or any animal product, and drinking alcohol. This is allegedly in line with the teachings of Baaba, who combines Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and traditional Bachwezi practices in his religion.
Other practices include common ownership of some assets for the “common good” like land, kitchen, cattle kraal, reference library and burial grounds. Though members are allowed to own some personal private property like houses, cars, radios or television sets, they are all required to contribute to the common good.
Anyone who fails to contribute, risks having their membership cancelled or be denied access to communally owned resources.
The group has a charter which specifies how they will govern themselves in the autonomous city, according to information posted on their website www.sseesamirembe.com. They will have powers to enact their own laws, ordinances, by-laws and procedures, as well as provide and maintain a security force for the protection of the inhabitants of the city. Their judicial system will be led by a “High Chancellor” and only permanent residents of the zone will be eligible to hold the office of a “Governing Chancellor”. They will provide their own social services and infrastructure, independent of the central Government.
Key projects already planned by the group include an international airport, an airport city, hotels, international schools, shopping malls, business centres and cultural villages. It is planned to accommodate about 500,000 people.
Chinese investor
To build the city, the group plans to strike agreements with investors. Already, they have signed a deal with a Chinese company, Paradise International Investment, to invest $1.5b (sh2.6trillion) in setting up infrastructure. The investment, set to kick off in December 2008, is said to become the single largest Chinese private investment in East Africa.
However, some people regard the proposed project as a dream. “This is a fairly tale,” says an LC official of Kabira sub-county, who requested anonymity. “They have been talking about it since the 1980s but we have not seen anything.”
Some people also fear that this is likely to be another cult like Joseph Kibwetere’s Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, which forced its members to live in an isolated community in the hills of Kanungu, western Uganda. Thousands of them were burnt to death in the church on March 17, 2000.
But the group’s leaders say they are being witch-hunted. “When people like Karim (Hirji) or Sudhir (Ruparelia) are investing, do you first ask whether they are Hindu?” asks Beenunula Eyeenunula, who has been appointed governor of the proposed eco-city.
Eyeenunula also insists that the aim is to attract investments to benefit rural people. “Our spiritual group is a foundation, just like Centenary Bank was founded by the Catholic Church and anybody can access it. Likewise, this city will become a free trade zone, like Dubai.”
The trade zone is being aggressively promoted by Kagera Eco-Cities, an organisation owned by Eyeenunula and Njuba.
Commission of inquiry
The group is, however, under fire for its controversial practices. Earlier this year, President Yoweri Museveni set up a commission of inquiry into the activities of the Sserulanda group. There had been reports that the group was making ARVs. The commission was therefore asked to investigate “allegations of divine healing energy and capacity to cure incurable diseases”.
The investigations are still going on, chaired by the dean of Makerere University Medical School, Prof. Nelson Ssewankambo.
“There have been a lot of stories and rumours about the foundation in terms of spiritual healing, and how they handle the dead people. We need to understand the organisation’s activities, leadership and membership. This is crucial before the Government gives the go-ahead for a free trade zone,” says Ssewankambo.
The commission also comprises the director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre, Dr. Peter Mugyenyi, and Dr. Grace Nambatya, head of research at the Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Laboratories. Other members are Richard Tushemereirwe, a state house official, and Harriet Tukamushaba, a state attorney.
Meeting the probe team on Wednesday, Presidential adviser Njuba wondered how the spiritual matters would be established.
“How will you ascertain the spiritual healing? How will you know each individual’s reason for joining the project?”
Reacting to the concerns, the probe chairman Ssewankambo said they would conduct public hearings.
“We will advertise so that people come and tell us what they know about the spiritual foundation. When we reach a point where we don’t understand the issues of spiritualism, we will notify the President that we are not able to proceed.”
Saturday Vision has learnt that the proposal for an eco-city had already been endorsed by the Government in a memorandum of understanding that was signed by state minister for investments Ssemakula Kiwanuka on January 18, 2006. Kiwanuka was not available for comment by press time yesterday.
