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As Apostle Alex Mitala's term comes to end, some pastors want
Bishop David Kiganda to replace Apostle Alex Mitala as the new head of the
National Fellowship of Born again Pentecostal Churches(NFBPC). These Pastors want Bishop
Kiganda to marry very fast because one of the requirement for heading this wing
is that one must be married.
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Pastor John Mulinde forgives wife
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Marry or quit: Congregation conducts
referendum on Pastor’s marriage.
Written by Burite Joseph
Monday, 18 February 2013 12:03
Church-goers
at Christianity Focus
Church in the Kisenyi slum of Kampala yesterday
conducted a mini-referendum on whether their Pastor should marry another wife.
Pastor
David Kiganda separated with his wife of many years, Hadijja Nassejje, after
catching her in bed with a “Chapati” Baker, one Mukwasi.
But
after close to Eight years of living as a single man, his congregation feels
enough is enough and have ordered him to marry again. They went ahead and
conducted a vote on the issue.
Presided
over by a Junior Pastor, one Isaac Mpawulo, the vote resulted in 96 voting in
favor and only 6 voting against.
Members of Pastor Kiganda's church during the voting
However,
the Pastor is not allowed to choose his bride from the same Church.
“These
people consider you their Father, you can’t marry among them,” said another
Junior Pastor, one Ntale, adding that Kiganda is free to get a wife from
anywhere else in Uganda
and abroad.
To
this, Pastor Kiganda responded that he is going to get a “Dinka”(a South
Sudanese tribe) wife.
Pastors Direct Pastor Kiganda to Get Married
http://www.ugandapicks.com/2013/02/pastors-direct-pastor-kiganda-to-get-married-27718.html
Posted on February 5, 2013
Pentecostal pastors have ordered fellow pastor, Pastor David Kiganda of ‘Christianity Focus Center’ to get married.
Pastor Kiganda has spent seven years without a woman and now he is required by fellow pastors to get married, and very quickly. The pastors, led by Pastor Isaac Mpawulo said that for some time, they have been requesting the pastor to get married and he kept on making empty promises to them. They also said they do not know who his ‘woman’ is.
Pastor David Kiganda with his 'divorced' wife Hadijja Nasejje during their youth days
Pastor Mpawulo said meetings were held to solve the problem of Pastor Kiganda who has an obligation to lead the people back to God. Pastor Kiganda separated from his wife, Hadijah Nassejje after finding her committing adultery. The meetings were first held by pastors from his church.
Members of Pastor Kiganda's church celebrate Pastor Kiganda's announcement that he has got a new bride whom he will show the church on Sunday
Several reasons brought up as to why the pastor has to get married are many. One of them is that he has a church were most of the congregation is married so how is he going to guide them when he himself is not married? He is also being considered as the next leader of all pentecostal churches after the current leader, Alex Mitala leaves office.
Pastor Kiganda has promised to fulfill this requirement in no time at all.
Bakubye akalulu ku musumba Kiganda afune omukyala
Kampala
ABAGOBEREZI b’ekkanisa y’omusumba David Kiganda bamukubyeko akalulu addemu awase kyokka ne bamussaako akakwakkulizo obutalonda mukazi kuva mu kkanisa eyo yennyini okwewala okuleetamu obuvuyo.
Omusumba Ssaalongo Ntale ye yabuulidde oluvannyuma lwa Kiganda okulemererwa olw’abantu abaabadde bamutadde ku nninga okuwasa.
“Munsaba okuwasa naye mulindeeko essaawa tennatuuka mulinde nja kubaleetera omudinka. Musumba Ntale jangu obuulire kuba ndaba abantu tebaagala kunziramu olw’okuba baagala mbalage omukazi” Kiganda bwe yazzeemu.
Wabula omusumba Ntale ng’azze ku muzindaalo yagasseeko, “abagoberezi bano kati bakutwala nga taata waabwe, kale kiba kiswaza ate okubawasaamu. Ssebo tuyambe tokikola, naye oli wa ddembe okufuna omuntu yenna ne bw’oba omuggye bweru wa ggwanga naye nga si mu kkanisa.”
Omusumba David Kiganda ow’ekkanisa ya Christianity Focus Centre mu Kisenyi atambuza mwaka gwa munaana bukya ayawukana ne mukyala we Hadija Nassejje gwe yakwatira mu bwenzi n’omusajja Mukwasi omusiisi wa capati.
Gyevuddeko abasumba b’omu kkanisa ye baawandika ekiwandiiko ne bakiweereza omusumba Alex Mitala akulira amakanisa g’abalokole mu ggwanga nga bemulungunya ku musumba waabwe gwe bagamba nti aluddewo okuddamu okuwasa.
Ku Ssande abagoberezi nga bakulemberwamu omusumba Isaac Mpawulo, baategese okulonda ku nsonga y’okuwasa kwa Musumba Kiganda era okulonda kwagenze okukomekkerezebwa ng’abantu 96 ku 100 bawagira omusumba waabwe afune omubeezi kyokka bino byonna baabikoze Kiganda tebaamutegeezezzaako.
Kiganda yategeezezza nti eby’okumukubako akalulu tabimanyiiko kuba yabadde aliko gye yagenda okudda ng’abasumba b’omu kkanisa ye bategese okulonda ku kye yagambye nti kyabadde tekyetaagisa. Yasabye abagoberezi baguminkirize.
Omusumba Kiganda afunye omukyala: Bategeka mbaga
OMUSUMBA David Kiganda, ow’Ekkanisa
ya Chrisitianity Focus Centre alangiridde nga bw'afunye omukazi gw’agenda
okukuba empeta.Kiganda yasinzidde mu kusaba mu Kkanisa gy'atwala, ku Ssande n'ategeeza abagoberezi be nga bwe yafunye omukazi era n'abakakasa nga bw'angeda okubamulaga wiiki ejja ku Ssande.
Bannange nkyali muvubuka muto okubeera omuwuulu kati y’essaawa nfunye omubeezi , Katonda tasobola kubonereza bantu babiri ng’eyasobya ali omu , sirabawo king'ana kuba bayibuli mu Matayo 19:9 enzikiriza okuddamu okuwasa n'e Kkooti enkulu eya Uganda yampa olukusa okuddamu okuwasa, nze mbadde nkyetegereza omuntu omutuufu,” Bwatyo Kiganda bwe yategeezezza.
Okuva Kiganda lwe yakwatira mukyala we, Hadijja Nasejje, mu bwenzi n’omusiisi wa chapati, emyaka 7 egiyise, ne baawukana mu mateeka, kkooti yamuwa olukusa okuwasa omukazi omulala era agamba talina nsobi gy'akoze yonna mu ky'ateekateeka okukola.
Ensonda enneekusifu mu Kkanisa zaategeezezza nti Kiganda omukazi gw’agenda okuwasa munnansi wa Ghana era embaga esuubirwa okubaawo mu May w’omwaka guno, kyokka Kiganda bw'abuuziddwa ku nsonga eno ategeezezza nti ku Ssande lw'ajja okuddamu buli kibuuzo kya muntu mu lwatu.
Kiganda annyonnyodde nti kkooti si y'ebadde emusibye okuddamu okuwasa, wabula abadde akyanoonya omuntu omutuufu alina ebisaanyizo by'ayagala okutuusa bwe yamufunye era okwanjula kwagwa omwaka oguwedde 2012.
“Bayibuli mu Matayo 19:9 egamba nti omuntu bw’akwatira mukyala we mu bwenzi waddembe okuddamu okuwasa, ekitegeeza nti mbadde nduddewo nnyo,” Kiganda bwe yategeezezza.
Ku Ssande, ewedde abagoberezi mu Kkanisa eno baamukubyeko akululu nga baagala addemu okuwasa wadde nga kino Kiganda agamba tekyamusanyusizza era kyabadde tekyetaagisa kuba ye muntu mukulu.
Amawulire ga Kiganda okuddamu okuwasa gaasanyusizza nnyo abagoberezi be ne batanula okulaya enduuli eyasaanidde Ekkanisa nga bwe bagamba nti kati akuze avudde mu bavubuka.
“Taata tusiimye nnyo era tukusimye obutawasa mu Kkanisa wadde mu Uganda,” abagoberezi bakira bwe bagamba Kiganda.
Who is Pastor Kiganda?
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/25/525341
Publish Date: Oct 08, 2006
Until last Tuesday, David Kiganda was just one of the numerous pastors in Kampala when newspapers carried the proceedings and confessions of a public divorce intention after an alleged adulterous affair that involved the pastor’s wife.
About twenty years ago, David Kiganda Isa was a very simple man who struggled hard to earn a living.
Kiganda was born on August 17 1964, to Late Richard Kalido Ssemaganda and Mrs, Restytutah Nampijja Ssemaganda in Nyendo, Masaka District. He has been married for the last 19 years to Miriam Hadijah Nassejje Kiganda (a former Muslim). They have with five children.
According to his website www.christianityfocuscentre.org, David Kiganda got born-again in July 1987, under the preaching efforts and leadership of the Late Apostle Deogracious John Balabyekkubo and Dr. Joseph Sserwadda both then pastors of Victory Christian Centre, Kibuye Kampala.
After serving in his mother church for some years and attending various Bible training programs, conferences and seminars, he started the Christianity Focus Ministries in 1990 with a vision of planting and empowering churches, advocating and agitating for the five-fold ministries to take roots in the church as it is written in the Bible book of Ephesians 4:12.
In an interview with the Sunday Vision in August, Kiganda confessed to have searched for a long time for a religion that could touch him.
Raised a Catholic, he considered venturing into Islam and the Protestant church.
Every evening, my friends and I would go to Nakivubo and and listen to Christians and Muslims debating, Kiganda said.
Every evening our group would get saved to excite the pastors, because it would look embarrassing for them to preach for hours and fail to get anyone saved, he said. (Alive, August 5, 2006)
His church in mengo Kisenyi has at attendance of over 3,000 faithfuls.
Some achievements as listed on the church’s website:
Senior Pastor for Christianity Focus Centre, located at Mengo Kisenyi
lFounder and Managing Director of Christianity Focus Grammer School at Budaali Namayumba, Wakiso District
lDirector, Seroma Christian High School in Mukono, Kyetume
lVice President of Liberty Ministry Fellowship Inc. USA/Uganda an international discipling and ordaining ministry.
In 2000 he was elected the Divisional Chairman of the National Fellowship of Born-again Pentecostal Churches - Uganda, Kampala Central Division.
July 2005 he was elected District Chairman Overseer of the entire, NFBAPC-U, Kampala District .
lHe was also known for the Operation Clean the House, a Uganda screening effort in the church to fight out all false teachings and false prophets and also to create awareness of the same among the born- again.
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THE
REPUBLIC OF UGANDA
IN
THE HIGH COURT OF UGANDA AT KAMPALA
DIVORCE
CAUSE NO. 42 OF 2011
BISHOP
DAVID KIGANDA ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PETITIONER
VERSUS
HADIJA NASEJJE KIGANDA ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
RESPONDENT
BEFORE HON. JUSTICE B. KAINAMUA
Judgment
Bishop David Kiganda (herein
after referred to as the Petitioner) and Hadija
Nasejje Kiganda (hereafter referred to as the Respondent) were legally
married at Victory
Christian Center
Ndeeba on 27th October 1991. Prior to the Solemnisation of the
marriage the couple had lived in cohabitation.
Out of the cohabitation and the marriage they produced five children
namely:-
1.
Kiganda
Martin Ssemwonga aged 24 years
2.
Kiganda
Baker Wamala aged 22 years
3.
Kisakye
Phillip Kiganda aged 20 years
4.
Kiwunulo
Deborah aged 18 years
5.
Kiganda
Joshua Yotulwanira aged 13 years
6.
The Petitioner brings this petition for the
following orders:-
a.
An
order for dissolution of the said marriage
b.
A
Decree Nisi be issued against the Respondent
c.
The
Petitioner be granted custody of the minor child who is already in his custody
since 2006.
d.
Consequential
order relating to the matrimonial property
e.
Costs
of the petition
The Petitioner raised two grounds for the
petition namely adultery, cruelty and desertion.
The hearing of the petition proceeded ex-part
after Court satisfied its self that the Respondent had been served with the
petition and she did not file an answer to the petition-Order 9
rule
10
CPR
The Petitioner’s case rested on the evidence
of four witnesses, the Petitioner, his Best man at the wedding, Israel
Sekanjako (PW2), Moses Kabanda (PW3) and his Personal Assistant Charles Kasule
(PW4).
It was the Petitioners testimony that he
got married to the Respondent Hadija Nasejje on the 27th day of October
1991 at Victory Christian Center
Church, Ndeeba. They had
previously cohabited for some time.
During their cohabitation and after the wedding
they produced five children named earlier in this Judgment.
The Petitioner testified that around 2006
the couple experienced problems in their marriage when the Respondent got
involved in an adulterous affair with one Mukwasi Hussein and others. The
Respondent is alleged to have confessed the act in church. In proof of this,
the Petitioner tendered in evidence an Agreement for Separation signed by the
Respondent on 29th September 2006 wherein under paragraph 11 she
admitted adultery with diverse men including one Hussein Mukwasi. The agreement
was admitted in evidence as EXP 1.
One Moses Kasanda (PW3) testified to the
effect that he is a member of the Petitioner’s church-Christian Focus Center Mengo
Kisenyi-where the Respondent was also a preacher.
He further stated that he was a witness to
the agreement signed by the Respondent (EXP 1) wherein she admitted adultery.
He concluded his testimony by confirming that since the making of the agreement
above, the Respondent has not returned to the home of the Petitioner.
The Petitioner also called Isreal
Sekanjanko (PW2) who testified that he was the Best Man at the Petitioner and
Respondent’s wedding. He tendered in the wedding photograph (EXP2). He further
testified that the Respondent though a Moslem initially, had converted to
Christianity and was a well known preacher and used to baptize people.
One Kasule Charles was called as PW4 and
testified that he was the Petitioner’s Personal Assistant. He testified that
while still in school he used to spend the holidays at the couple’s home, knew
the children of the couple very well and has since two years back been resident
at the home of the Petitioner. He confirmed that the Respondent has not been at
the home since 2006.
At the hearing of the petition, one issue was
identified for determination namely:- whether the Petitioner is entitled to the
reliefs sought in the petition.
In a nutshell these are:- Dissolution of
the marriage between the parties and grant of custody of the minor child to the
Petitioner.
Adultery has been defined as consensual
sexual intercourse during the existence of a marriage between a married person
and a person of the opposite sex not being the husband or wife of that married
person. Adultery may be proved by either direct or circumstantial evidence. As
observed by Justice Ntabgoba in George
Nyakairu
Vs
Rose Nyakairu [1979] HCB 261
“in
allegations of adultery it is not necessary to prove direct act of adultery for
the fact was almost always to be inferred from the circumstances as a necessary
conclusion since it is indeed true that parties were ever surprised in the act
of adultery”.
Adultery
must be proved to the satisfaction of the Court (see Habyarimana Vs
Habyarimana
(1980)
HCB
139)
but the Court can conclude after considering the facts and circumstances
pleaded before it that an adulterous sexual intercourse took place.
The Petitioner testified that he has not
been living with the Respondent since September 2006. He stated that the reason
for the separation was because the Respondent got into an affair with another
man one Hussein Mukwasi which affair the Respondent admitted in the presence of
others. (See EXP 1). This fact was collaborated by Moses Kabanda (PW3) who
stated that he was present at the gathering when the Respondent apologized
before people including elders and pastors. He further stated that he was a
witness to the Agreement for Separation which the Respondent signed.
Based on the direct and circumstantial
evidence before Court, i am satisfied that the Respondent did commit acts of
adultery on diverse occasions with other men but more especially one Hussein
Mukwasi.
I hold therefore that the Petitioner has
discharged the burden of proving that the Respondent did engage in the acts of
adultery with diverse men including one Hussein Mukwasi.
The Petitioner sought custody for Kiganda
Joshua Yatulwanira, the only remaining minor child from the marriage. The
paramount principle in cases of custody is the welfare of the child. The child
has been in the custody of the Petitioner since 2006 when the couple separated.
There is no compelling reason why this arrangement should be interfered with by
Court. Accordingly the Petitioner will retain the custody of the child.
The Petitioner seeks no costs, so be it.
In conclusion Court makes the following
orders:-
1. A
Decree nisi is hereby issued for the dissolution of the marriage between the
Petitioner and the Respondent
2. The
Petitioner is granted custody of the child Kiganda Joshua Yatulwanira
3. There
is no order as to costs.
B.
Kainamura
Judge
2.08.2012
