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The New vision, Tuesday, 27th January, 2009
By Catherine Bekunda
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THE leader of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) in Uganda has appealed to the different Muslims factions to stop attacking each other.
“I appeal to you to shun this behaviour because in trying to destroy one person, you end up destroying the whole institution and religion,” said John Luga Wani.
“Rather than making news for the public, take charge and be responsible,” he advised. He appealed to Muslims to sort out their problems quietly rather than expose them to the public.
Wani said this while at the inauguration ceremony of new board members of the Inter Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU) at the Gadaffi Mosque in Old Kampala yesterday.
Mufti Shaban Ramadhan Mubajje who is also the chairperson of council of presidents for ICRU, called upon the new members to exercise accountability and responsibility in their work.
“You are charged with the duty of promoting love, tolerance, peace and enhancing sustainable development,” said Mubajje.
The 10-member and five ex-officio board was inaugurated at a ceremony which attracted all the leaders of the major faiths in Uganda.
The board will serve for a three- year term.
At the same function, IRCU bid farewell to the outgoing secretary general, Jowad Kezaala.
Kezaala is credited for turning IRCU into a stable organisation that delivered essential services in peace building and reconciliation and HIV/AIDS related services across the country.
Commenting on the death penalty, Mubajje praised the Government for upholding the death penalty, saying it made people afraid of committing heinous crimes.
He explained that according to Islam, a criminal should be paid using the same currency as he has done to the other.
“By killing a person, the killer should know that he is also killing himself,” said Mubajje.
He explained that if it is scrapped, especially in African countries, murders would increase.
However, Wani said the death penalty should be abolished because it makes people more vengeful.
“When people know that they have been pardoned, they tend to refrain from doing bad, but if they know they will die, murders will instead increase,” he said.
The new board
Prof. Badru Katerega, Hajji Mutwalib Tezikuba, Sheikh Siraji Kavuma, Mugagga Kaggwa, Florence Kwesigabo, Msgr. John Kauta, Henry Kalule, Alice Sebunjo, Joseph Twesigye, Joy Kemirembe, Fr. Emmanuel Oruk, Theodore Kato, Barbra Ssenkatuuka, Rev. Alfred Achur Okodi and Rev. Can. Aaron Mwesigye
