Pastor Kiwedde set free after completing his jail term
Tuesday September 18 2018
By MALIK FAHAD JJINGO
MASAKA. Pastor William Paul Muwanguzi, famously known as Pastor Kiwedde is now a free man after serving his sentence.
Pastor Kiwedde was in 2013 arrested in Rakai District, where he was impersonating a Kenyan Catholic priest who was performing prayers and miracles of healing, and extorted colossal sums of money from hundreds of unsuspecting followers.
However,
after serving part of his sentence at Mutukula prison, in 2014, Kiwedde
escaped from prison and managed to get out of the country through
Mutukula border before going to Zimbabwe from where he was repatriated
back to Uganda in November 2016 to complete his sentence.
He
had been sentenced to a four-year jail term for impersonation but was
give two more years for the prison break and being in possession of a
fake passport in the names of David Mubiru.
Mr Frank
Baine, the Uganda Prisons Service public relations officer, confirmed
Tuesday morning that Pastor Kiwedde was released after completing his
jail term.
“Mr
Muwanguzi completed his jail term and he is now a free man, he was
released on Monday from Masaka Prison where he was serving his sentence
from,” he said in a telephone interview.
Pastor
Kiwedde, became famous because of his activities at his defunct Church
under the name of Holy Fire Ministries at Namulanda Village along
Kampala- Entebbe road where thousands of believers used to gather to
receive ‘miracles’.
He is said to have extorted a lot
of money from his followers from which he accumulated wealth and bought
lavish cars he branded 'Kiwedde' meaning ‘it is done’.
Muwanguzi
has previously faced several charges including terrorism, illegal
possession of firearms and assaulting a police officer on duty.
Records
at police indicate that in 2010, Muwanguzi changed his name to Paul
Mwamba and went into hiding in Kenya where he opened a church in Eldoret
which he operated until 2013.
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