Kato Mivule |May 18, 2009
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/332-police-clears-pastor-robert-kayanja-of-sodomy-did-he-bribe-police.html
In a mysterious and 'movie-like’ turn of events, Uganda's Prosperity Gospel Pastor, Robert Kayanja was "cleared" of all Sodomy charges by Police and instead his accusers were summoned for to Police Headquarters.
This comes after Pastor Robert Kayanja offered to "Renovate" Ugandan Police Headquarters, a move that was highly criticized by The Parliament - Uganda's Legislative Body, The Media, and the Public.
It was seen that Pastor Robert Kayanja would never be thoroughly investigated but the Ugandan Police would do him 'favors' because of the money he "donated" to renovate Ugandan Police Staff Quarters which are in a deplorable state.
However, it is known and common in Uganda that The Police never acts in the interest of the public but the powerful like Kayanja who have "connections" with President Museveni... It is a sad day for all those young boys who have been abused and sodomized as they will never get justice in Uganda’s corrupt legal system. This is a true case of Obstruction of Justice by Uganda’s Elites...Ugandan Press seems to Report a far different story from 'The Police and Kayanja' Antics...
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SODOMY ROW: CID SUMMONS PASTORS: Daily Monitor May 18, 2009
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News | May 18, 2009
Pastor Kayanja
Sodomy row: CID summons pastors
Andrew Bagala
Kampala
The Police Criminal Investigations Directorate yesterday summoned five pastors on allegations that they set up Pastor Robert Kayanja in a sodomy scandal.
CID Director Edward Ochom said at a press conference that Pastors Martin Ssempa of Makerere Community Church, Solomon Male of Arise for Christ, Michael Kyazze, Annet Kyomuhendo and Bob Kayiiira of Omega Healing Centre are expected at CID headquarters in Kibuli today, where they will be interrogated by detectives.
The summons come after CID investigated cases in which seven people including; Samson Mukisa, James Ntwatwa, Ronny Mutebi, David Mukalazi, Akansiime and Robinson Matovu alleged to have been sodomised by Pastor Kayanja while they were serving in his church at Rubaga Miracle Cathedral.
Mr Ochom said the cases were found to be false and the Police had summoned the pastors on allegations of giving false information contrary to section 115 of the Penal Code and false swearing contrary to section 100 of the Penal Code.
“We are going to take tough measures against people who tell lies to the Police because they put the Police credibility to question,” Mr Ochom said.
The development is likely to turn tables with Pastor Kayanja, who recently made a big donation to the police force – renovating Old Kampala Station, moving from defendant to complainant and the Pastors who have been accusing him of sodomy becoming the defendants.
The CID boss’ position on the matter, stems from a Police statement by Mr Mukisa on February 7, alleging that he was an orphan who sought refuge at Pastor Kayanja’s church but was sodomised. He also swore an affidavit to that effect.
Police carried out medical examinations, which indicated the man was not sodomised but a separate independent examination by a doctor at Mulago Hospital did not rule out sodomy. “We have found out that his (Mukisa’s) mother is alive contrary to the first statement he made and his father isn’t Richard Bulega as he alleged but is Richard Muyingo,” Mr Ochom said yesterday.
CID officials said Mr Mukisa has never been part of Kayanja’s church.
But Mukisa yesterday said the CID boss had told lies about him. He also alleged to have been forced by the Police to sign a statement at gun point. “Both of my parents are dead. I am ready to prove all I have said,” Mr Mukisa said in an interview with Daily Monitor.
Both Pastors Male and Ssempa yesterday confirmed receiving the summons. Pastor Ssempa described the development as a “sad one for those helping victims of sodomy”. Daily Monitor couldn’t reach the other pastors.
But the Pastors summoned by CID and particularly Pastor Male have accused the Police of acting suspiciously in the investigation. “Mukisa reported his case to the Police in February. Later, we read that Kayanja had offered to renovate Old Kampala Police Station … If your conscience is really clear, why do you send dummies to people investigating you? Why not allow them to investigate and find you innocent?” Pastor Male said in an interview with the Sunday Vision.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Sodomy_row_CID_summons_pastors_85027.shtml
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POLICE CLEARS PASTOR KAYANJA OF SODOMY: NEW VISION MAY 18, 2009
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Police clear Pastor Kayanja of sodomy
Sunday, 17th May, 2009
By Patrick Jaramogi
THE POLICE yesterday described allegations of sodomy against Pastor Robert Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre as “baseless”, “fabricated” and “full of lies”.
“We have been carrying out investigations following allegations of sodomy by Pastor Robert Kayanja. The allegations were grave because they involved the church, but the revelations were unbelievable,” said Edward Ochom, the Director of Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID), at a press conference at his headquarters in Kibuli.
“Pastor Kayanja has no case because all six complainants who reported to the Police have retracted their complaints, saying they were set up by some pastors. We shall proceed with the case when any other person comes up with a complaint.”
The Police listed Samson Mukisa, David Mukalazi, Brian Ntwata, Robson Matovu, Ronnie Mutebi and Brian Ankansima as people who have since retracted their statements.
Ochom warned of stern measures against people who tell lies to the Police.
“These people have been summoned to explain.”
He listed those summoned as pastors Martin Ssempa of Makerere University Community Church; Michael Kyazze, Robert Kayiira and Lendo Anita Kyomuhendo of Omega Healing Centre; and Solomon Male.
“We want them at the CID headquarters today. If they don’t respond, we shall arrest them,” Ochom warned.
According to Ochom, Mukisa, the 19-year-old boy who alleged he was sodomised by Kayanja in a hotel, confessed that he had been used.
“When our senior detectives called Mukisa for interrogation, he confessed that what he swore in the affidavit were lies. Mukisa said that he was paid sh50,000 per month to damage Pastor Kayanja,” said Ochom.
However, Mukisa at a press conference convened by Male on Saturday said he had been forced by CID officers to retract his earlier statements at gun point.
“I was put at gunpoint and forced to retract and sign a new statement. I feared for my life,” he told journalists. Mukisa is being accommodated by Omega Healing Centre in Namasuba.
In his affidavit, presented by Kaggwa and Company Advocates, Mukisa alleged that he was heading a music group at Kayanja’s ministry for street children which won a music competition and that after the party, Kayanja drove him to an unknown hotel and sodomised him.
“Mukisa alleged that his anus was shattered and that Kayanja brought a female doctor who stitched it. When we took him for medical examination, the Police surgeon found that his anus was intact and had never been stitched,” said Ochom.
He said investigations found out that Mukisa had never been taken to the children’s home.
“In his affidavit he said that his father was the late Richard Bulega of Kitende in Kajjansi and that his mother, Oliver Nansubuga, died in 2008. But when we interrogated him, he said his father was Richard Muyingo and his mother is still alive.”
“Mukisa later told us that he was being used by some pastors.”
Ochom vowed that the Police would not tolerate lies by church leaders.
“We are not going to allow people who are not credible to lead institutions like the church. The church is an institution of high morals.”
The conflict between rival Pentecostal churches, which compete for members, ‘sowing’ money and funds from US churches, has deepened in recent weeks, with pastors accusing each other of homosexuality, kidnap and bribing people to frame them.
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/681656
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POLICE WELFARE IS GOVT RESPONSIBILITY: DAILY MONITOR MAY 16 2009
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Opinions | May 16, 2009
Police welfare is govt responsibility
Government is abdicating the responsibility of ensuring Police welfare, exposing the nation’s law enforcers to manipulation. While Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura’s need to improve his officers’ appalling living conditions in understandable, the practice of accepting hand outs from the public could jeopardise law enforcement.
Last week Third Deputy Prime Minister Kirunda Kivejinja, who is also Minister of Internal Affairs and Maj. Gen. Kayihura defended the practice of accepting offers from the public during a Parliamentary committee on Defense and Internal Affairs. MPs on the committee had raised the red flag over Police’s decision to accept Pastor Robert Kayanja’s renovation of Old Kampala Police Station at a time when he is defending himself against several allegations of inappropriate conduct.
Kayihura says the Constitution allows the Police to cooperate with civil authority and the general population in the execution of its functions. This is vague and leaves the Police vulnerable to manipulation by rich individuals. Though Gen. Kayihura clarified that Kayanja would face the law if he committed a crime, his explanation was not convincing.
Curiously, when Lt. General Katumba Wamala was police chief and he tried to fundraise for double-cabin pick ups, President Museveni ordered him to stop the practice. So what has changed? There is no other country in the world in which government can under-fund a key sector to the point of exposing it to such ridicule. United States of America, for example has the highest concentration of rich individuals in the world, but it is unheard of for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, (FBI) to accept any help from them.
Government must, as a matter of urgency, re-arrange it’s priorities and free resources to cater for the welfare of the men and women serving in our armed forces. As a starting point, all Police barracks must be renovated to be fit for human habitation. Improvement of salaries can follow later.
However well intentioned, the practice of leaving the welfare of the Police force to the goodwill of the public is unsustainable and could easily boomerang. State institutions should serve the public good and not the interests of a few individuals, however wealthy.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/opinions/Police_welfare_is_govt_responsibility_84900.shtml
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PASTOR KAYANJA TO RENOVATE POLICE BARRACKS: All Africa, March 12, 2009
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Uganda: Pastor Kayanja to Renovate Old Kampala Police Barracks |All Africa March 12, 2009
Anthony Bugembe
12 March 2009
Kampala — PASTOR Robert Kayanja of Kampala Miracle Centre has offered to give Old Kampala Police barracks a face lift.
This will involve repairing the dilapidated structures, replacing the asbestos with iron sheets, planting grass on the compound and setting up a video hall.
"My team is coming here on Tuesday. We will start with one block and see how things progress," Kayanja said.
The pastor said the houses would be roofed, painted and that electrical installations and plumbing would be done.
"We have the experts to do the job. We urge you to join us because this is a communal effort," Kayanja said at the barracks on Tuesday.
"The Police are part of us. We run to them for protection, especially when we have big events like the New Year prayers," said Kayanja.
"We shall do everything in our means to help them. By the end of this year, this will be the best looking barracks in Kampala."
Last week, Police chief Kale Kayihura initiated the renovation of the barracks to improve the living conditions of the officers. He said the Police would rely on its meagre resources and the private sector to implement the programme.
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Augustine Kasangaki, the officer-in-charge of the station, said each block was designed to house only four families.
"The barracks is now home to 123 Police families. That means each block now houses between four to eight families," he said.
Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said: "We are grateful to people who appreciate our challenges and go out of their way to offer a hand."
Kayanja's team also offered groceries to the officers. The barracks was built in 1955.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200903130015.html
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PASTOR KAYANJA CREATES A TRICKY POLICE SITUATION: Daily Monitor, March 29, 2009
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Pastor Kayanja creates a tricky police situation | Daily Monitor March 29, 2009
"There is a difference in opinion among senior police officers over Pastor Robert Kayanja’s recent offerings to the Force. Recently, Pastor Kayanja offered material assistance to the families of police officers of Old Kamapala Police Station. He then promised to ensure that the dilapidated police quarters are rehabilitated. Although Police Chief Kale Kayihura accepted the offer, other officers have had second thoughts about it. The police say that it leaves them in a compromising position since the man was once the subject of an inquiry into suspected wine smuggling. A parallel Uganda Revenue Authority investigation faded quietly into the distance. It is because of this past that the Old Kampala offer has attracted attention."
http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/political_grapevine/What_next_for_IGG_Mwondha_printer.shtml
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POLICE CRITICIZED OVER PASTOR KAYANJA'S OFFER: New Vision, April 16, 2009
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Police criticised over Kayanja offer
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/678328
Thursday, 16th April, 2009
By Mary Karugaba
Members of Parliament have questioned the Police Force for accepting Pastor Robert Kayanja and other individuals’ offer to renovate Police barracks.
The MPs on the public accounts committee yesterday asked officials headed by the undersecretary, Winnie Kabogoza, to explain why they accepted the offer.
They said such offers would compromise the Police’s impartiality.
“Allowing people to do work for you is putting you in a fix. How then are you going to treat them when they commit a crime?” the committee chairman, Nandala Mafabi, asked.
MP Tom Kazibwe asked why the force solicited for public offers yet the Government stopped former Police boss Lt.Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala from getting funds to buy patrol vehicles.
“At this rate, you will find hardcore criminals offering to renovate some of your barracks,” Kazibwe said.
Kabogoza said they sought public support because they were disparate.
She said the force received only sh800m annually for maintenance.
“This is part of the private-public partnership. Jomayi property has also come in,” she said.
The Police commissioner in charge of legal services, Samuel Kyomukama, said: “We understand your fears. You can’t feed from someone’s hand and then treat him badly. It’s not good because it compromises the impartiality.”
Asked about allegations of bosses sexually harassing female officers, Kyomukama said: “Police officers are also individuals. They are a mirror of society.”
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