Police questions Kayanja accusers
Monday, 18th May, 2009
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PASTORS Simon Male and Martin Ssempa were yesterday interrogated by the Police for allegedly falsifying information and swearing false affidavits purporting that Pastor Robert Kayanja committed sodomy.
Kayanja is the pastor of Miracle Centre Church in Rubaga, Kampala. Male arrived at the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) in Kibuli, a Kampala suburb, at about 10:30am. CID deputy director Moses Sakira and general crimes boss Venice Tumuhibise interrogated him from 12:30pm to 5:00pm. His lawyer Paul Rutisya was present.
Ssempa arrived at 11:35am accompanied by two aides and lawyer Philip Karugaba. The Police questioned him from 4:47pm to 7:35pm.
Male’s lawyer said his client belongs to Arise and Shine Ministries based on Portal Avenue in Kampala. Ssempa pastors Makerere Community Church.
Addressing journalists before the interrogation, the men said they were not scared.
The clergymen allegedly said Kayanja sodomised boys, who confessed to them about their ordeal. Both pastors recorded statements and they are expected back in Kibuli today for further interrogation.
Male said he told the Police the truth. He said he had given refuge to a Samson Mukisa, one of Kayanja’s accusers.
Male said he was not a liar but a Good Samaritan. “I am a human rights defender.”
Ssempa said for years he had assisted victims of homosexuality, a job he described as tough. “I pray that the country will not forget the boys. There should be justice for boys who have been abused sexually just like for girls,” he stated.
“I have no problem with Kayanja. He has never sodomised me,” Ssempa said. “It is the children who came to us and confessed. It is those who are seeking justice.”
Ssempa said he was concerned that some people in Kayanja’s church were highly-placed in the Police force. “But we have faith in democracy and justice,” he added.
Ssempa said he first heard the sodomy allegations against Kayanja in 1996. He cited David Mulakazi, Robson Matovu and Mukisa as some of the accusers. He called for a commission of inquiry into the activities of pastors cited in homosexual activities.
After the interrogation, Ssempa told journalists that the process and the cause of justice had just started.
Both Ssempa and Male dismissed claims that Kayanja’s accusers had withdrawn the allegations. CID boss Edward Ochom on Sunday told a press conference in Kampala that Kayanja had no case to answer because his accusers had lied about him.
Kayanja would not comment on the matter yesterday, but his spokesperson Arthur Nsamba promised to issue a statement today.
The Police yesterday paraded a woman whom they described as Mukisa’s mother. Olivia Nansubuga, 30, said Mukisa had never been at Rubaga Miracle Centre. Mukisa in an affidavit said he was 19 years old and that both his parents were dead.
But Nansubuga said he was 17, although she could not tell when she gave birth to Mukisa whom she said was her only child. The Police did not say if they would carry out a DNA test on Nansubuga and Mukisa to clear the matter.
Nansubuga, a resident of Kyengera, was invited by the Police to clarify the allegations against Kayanja which Mukisa made in his affidavit.
She said his father, Richard Muyingo, who lives at Kajjansi, abandoned her after making her pregnant in S1 at Kitende Senior Secondary School.
Tightly guarded by two Police escorts, Nansubuga said although she belonged to Kyengera Pentecostal Church, she was perturbed by what she saw on television and heard on radio and wanted to clear the allegations her “own son” made.
“I have never gone to Kayanja’s church, but as a born-again Christian, I can’t sit down and see people malign a senior pastor of Kayanja’s calibre.”
She displayed three photos of Mukisa whom she said had changed his name to Robert Musaarize, Musasiizi and Mukisa.
“My son has had mental problems since childhood,” she said. “He escaped from home twice when he was still young in 2006. I never saw him again until this year on Easter when he told me he was working at Pastor Michael Kyazze’s church.”
Pastor Kyazze of Omega Healing Centre is also implicated in the allegations against Kayanja.
Additional reporting by Robert Mutebi
Pastors Ssempa, Male defiant after CID visit
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The interrogation took five hours. But when Pastor Solomon Male came out of the Kibuli-based Criminal Investigations Directorate offices at exactly 5pm last evening, he remained defiant refusing to retract claims that Pastor Robert Kayanja has been named in sodomy claims.
Mr Moses Sakira, the deputy CID director in charge of investigation, led the interrogation of the two pastors; with Male emerging unmoved by the Police action.
He said: “It’s simple to cast a demon than to stand for the truth; but we shall win for the truth.”
CID Director Edward Ochom on Sunday summoned five pastors after detectives investigated claims by seven men that they were sodomised by Pastor Kayanja while they served at his Rubaga church. The seven include Samson Mukisa, James Ntwatwa, Ronny Mutebi, David Mukalazi, Akansiime and Robinson Matovu.
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.
Reported by Zurah Nakabugo, Evelyn Lirri, Andrew Bagala, & Risdel Kasasira
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Gwe Male kiki kyononya ku Bantu Mukama be yayiwak'amafuta?(You Male! why do you hunt the anointed ones of God) You have really fought so hard but it is a losing battle, one day you guys who ganging up against other pastors you will also fight each other. If someone is gay, does it mean posting me over the media is going to help him stop? you as a pastor what does the Bible tell you to do, pray for them and then ask God to direct you as our bringing them back. Of all people in Uganda, how come that your the only one who gets false information about other pastors? Male STOP STOP STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING TO THE CHURCH OF GOD.
Poliisi ekunyizza Male ne Sempa
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Written by ahmed mukiibi
Monday, 18 May 2009 19:43
ABASUMBA Solomon Male ne Martin Sempa baavudde ku kitebe kya bambega ba Poliisi nga bawera nti Omusumba Robert Kayanja abeetaanuulidde, bagenda kuggyayo ne bwiino gwe babadde basirikidde.
“Kayanja atwetaanulidde, tulina abalenzi abalala basatu be yalya ebisiyaga, era tubaleeta”, Omusumba Sempa owa Makerere Community Church bwe yagambye
Sempa n’omusumba Male owa Kkanisa ya Arise for Christ baasiibye Kibuli ku kitebe kya bambega nga babuuzibwa akana n’akataano ku bye baalumiriza Kayanja nti mmo mu kulya ebisiyiga.
Baakunyiziddwa ekibinja kya bambega abaakuliddwa Moses Sakira nga baasoose Male gwe baatandise okubuuza ebibuuzo ku ssaawa ku ssaawa 5:00 ez’oku makya ne bamuvaako ku ssaawa 11:00 ez’olweggulo.
Male eyabadde ne munnamateeka Paul Rutisya owa Kasirye, Byaruhanga & Co Advocates yalagiddwa okuddamu okweyanjula olwaleero ku ssaawa 5:00 ez’oku makya batandikire we baakomye.
Sempa baatandise okumubuuza ebibuuzo ku ssaawa 11:00 olw’eggulo oluvannyuma lw’okumutuuza okumala essaawa mukaaga mu kasenge nga bw’alinda bamalirize Male.
Male yagambye nti talina kyatidde kubanga ali ku mazima era akimanya nti amazima gajja kuwangula kubanga Katonda ali ku ludda lw’abazima so ludda lwa kivve.
“Abemitima eminafu be batidde kubanga bakimanyi nti kyangu nnyo okugoba emizimu okusinga okulwanyisa amazima,” bwe yagambye n’agattako nti luno olutalo lwe baliko lwa Katonda era bateekwa okuluwangula.
Wadde nga baabadde tebatidde Male yagambye nti waliwo basumba banne abaagenze ewa Minisita w’Ensonga Ezomunda, Ali Kirunda Kivejinja ne bamutegeeza nti tebeesiga nti Poliisi bannaabwe eneebakwata na mazima
Gye buvuddeko Omusumba Kayanja yakwasizza akulira Poliisi, Maj. Gen Kale Kaihura ekizimbe omusula abapoliisi y’e Kampalamukadde kye yabadde yakaddaabiriza. Ababaka ba Palamenti baawakanyizza nnyo ekikolwa kino ne bagamba nti kijja kuleetera Poliisi okwekubiira mu misango egirimu Kayanja.
Sempa yagambye nti olutalo lwe baliko bamanyi obunene bwalwo era beetegefu okulutwala mu maaso okutuusa nga bawangudde sitaani.
“Nze sirina buzibu na Kayanja kubanga tandyangako bisiyaga wabula nnina obukakafu nti yakulusaanya obwana ng’abukolako ebivve bya Sodoma,” bwe yagambye n’annyonnyola nti amaze emyaka 20 ng’ayamba abaana abatulugunyizibwa ku ngeri ng’ezo era bano abalumiriza Kayanja si be basoose.
We zaaweredde essaawa emu ey’akawungeezi eggulo nga Poliisi ekyakunya Ssempa.
