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Saturday 9 May 2020
When Ugandan Pastors are ignorant of the corruption that keeps Museveni’s neo-liberal dictatorship in power: When Pastor Robert Kayanja and Bishop David Livingstone Kiganda joined President Museveni to walk against Corruption
By Pastor Robert Kayanja - Miracle Centre Cathedral, Rubaga
Bishop David
Livingstone Kiganda of Christianity Focus Centre, Mengo Kisenyi with
his wife, Cindy Kiganda participated in the anti-corruption walk held
Wednesday.
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by fornicating with Museveni’s corrupt dictatorship: Pastor Joseph Serwadda,
Bishop David Kiganda and Pastor Jackson Senyonga new year eve celebrations turn
into political fora to raise support for President Museveni.
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Dictator : Pastor Kayanja compares President Museveni to King David (a man
after God’s own heart(1 Sam. 13:14) ) at the 2016 swearing in.
If there is anything that would destroy us as a country, it would be
corruption. All other wars waged against us were from the outside and
they failed; HIV, civil war, Kony, Ebola, the instability of the 60s,
70s and 80s, etc.
Let me refresh you on an episode that happened to me in 1984 as I was praying and counseling over 200 people at our Kiwempe church at Kabuusu, Rubaga, Kampala.
A
mother brought her daughter mentally disturbed and the line of people
was so long as they came in one by one. After three hours, this mad girl
shouted at her mother in Luganda and she said;
“Naye maama na’we, tunasiiba wano? Ah! Gwe olowoza yye Kayanja alya ttaka? Bako kyovamu atukoleko tugende! (But
mom, are we going to spend the whole day here? Do you think Pr. Kayanja
is not a human being? Cough up something so that he can prioritize us
and we go home.)
Oh, Uganda! Even mad people understand the effects of corruption.
The
corrupt have been succeeding because the country has been sleeping. We
have been doing the talk: Now it is time to walk the talk. All of us
must recruit ourselves to be whistleblowers.
I believe the best
gift we could give to each other and to our families for the good of the
country would be to fight corruption. A corrupt-free Uganda starts with
me.
As part of the organizing committee of the anti-corruption
walk, I would like to thank the chief walker, H.E the President of
Uganda, the organizers, the walkers and mostly, the Almighty God who
gave us the strength and the good weather in order for us to walk.
Why I walked
Since
time immemorial, God has used the walking of man for or against to
achieve a greater good. In the scriptures, the wall of Jericho stood in
the way of God’s people, stopping them from achieving their goal and
possessing their land. It was a wall put up and protected by men, just
like corruption in Uganda. It is not just a vice, it is organized crime.
Corruption
is physical, mental and spiritual. It affects all of us; whether it is
the immunized children in Kisoro or the young girls who are demanded sex
in order to pass their exams at universities.
Whether it is a sick person at Mulago who continues to suffer from
cancer, yet a vital machine broke down because of negligence, or an old
man who has served the country for the past 40 years but struggles to
get his retirement benefits or communities which do not have access to
proper drugs because of pharmacies selling fake drugs, corruption
affects us all.
Let all know that after you have gotten your
slice off the blood money, it will be your family that will inherit the
curse as the president said on 4th December at Kololo.
Corruption is like setting your own hut on fire and expecting your
neighbor’s house to burn down. It will be your babies, one day that will
burn in the house.
I walked because I know that the wall of
Jericho fell down after the people of God walked around it. They walked
around it seven times and on the seventh time, it crumbled.
I
would like to congratulate all the anti-corruption agencies, especially
the State House Anti-corruption Unit led by Col. Edith Nakalema and her
staff for spearheading the walk.
ANTI CORRUPTION GOLDEN BULLET
With
all these departments in place, including the anti-corruption court,
why are we failing to destroy this cancer? The next step should be
shouting to the wall of Jericho (naming, shaming the corrupt and paying
restitution.)
Our Lord, Jesus Christ took a walk to Jerusalem. He
had been there numerous times to attend various feasts and prayer days,
but this time He realized that the temple had been turned into a den of
thieves.
Uganda has become a den of thieves – overcharging people, lying about
people, sabotaging progress, overbidding in contracts, substandard work
in the construction of our roads and buildings, the importation of fake
materials and drugs, land grabbing from the weak by the strong, etc.
It is shameful that a brand new road requires repair in less than a
year. Why do our courts issue injunctions in favor of illegally removing
citizens without compensation?
I walked because I believe it
will take the people, the government and all civil society to work
together, all of us speaking up with one voice and taking the same stand
against the spirit of corruption. The church as well must participate
because the corrupt are our own members. All the people we are pointing
fingers at go to our mosques and churches. It is high time we told them
that we are tired of corruption.
I walked because it was a noble cause. I walked because if I don’t, then who will?
Our
Lord, Jesus Christ drove out the money changers from the temple using
his belt against everybody who was corrupting the place of prayer.
Uganda is the pearl of Africa, a place of development. It is not a den
of thieves.
If there is anything that would destroy us as a
country, it would be corruption. All other wars waged against us were
from the outside and they failed; HIV, civil war, Kony, Ebola, the
instability of the 60s, 70s and 80s, etc.
However, we must fight twice as hard against corruption because while
the other wars were from the outside, corruption is a war within us. It
undermines integrity, transparency, truth, and utterly destroys the
future. Corrupt people are worse than Joseph Kony or Idi Amin and they
should be treated as such.
The corrupt are misusing their positions and our country. That is why I appeal to us all to join the fight against corruption.
We can learn from Joshua and Jesus walks. They did the following things;
Shout
The
Joshua walk around Jericho culminated in a shout. The people of
Jerusalem shouted when Jesus arrived and He said the stones would shout
if the people didn’t. Ugandans need to shout. We have kept quiet for too
long. We need to name and shame the people who are corrupting our
country, our name and the nation.
Amnesty
There
was a woman in Jericho called Rahab, who collaborated with Joshua’s
spies. When Israel took the city, her and her family were spared. She
was granted amnesty. In the fight against corruption, we must be willing
to offer amnesty to those who are willing to repent, return what they
have stolen and are ready to surrender and turn from their corrupt ways.
This shall be expounded in another episode of this article.
Jesus,
after throwing out the thieves from the temple, received their
children. He said, out of their mouths comes perfect praise. We are
God’s children and must act as children. All Ugandans must become as
childlike as possible. We should not remain adamant in corrupt ways.
Arrogance
is the cover of corruption. I have never seen as many arrogant people
as I see today. People grab people’s property and threaten to kill them.
They go to the land board and threaten the officials there with
statements like, “Do you know who I am?”
Joshua warned the people
not to touch anything that was unholy. Achan, who touched what wasn’t
supposed to be touched, was stoned to death together with his whole
family because he was the cause of Israel’s defeat through his
corruption.
When those who are supposed to fight corruption begin
to participate in it by receiving bribes to protect the corrupt, they
are sentencing themselves to death in the next phase of our quest in
development.
Jesus used his belt to whip the thieves and drive them out of the temple.
Leaders
are usually threatened that if they use their belt as a whip, their
pants will fall, but I have seen His Excellency fight all the way since
the 1960s; fighting backwardness among the Ankole cattle-keepers,
joining the UNLF and fighting Amin in the 70s, fighting the oppressive
forces in the 80s and liberating the country, fighting to bring
development to the people of Uganda. I know that he can fight
corruption, but I believe there might be people around him who threaten
that if he pulls his belt, his pants will fall.
Mr. President,
your pants can’t fall. You are loved, supported and God is on your side.
We pray, Mr. President, start using your belt. You are the commander in
chief. In the army, the common weapon used is the gun, so Ssabalwanyi, piga lisasi!
This is how Uganda will be brought back on the path to fulfill our destiny.
If
our country can overcome corruption, all eyes will be on Uganda as God
has said and as all other studies have shown, we will be the pearl and
the breadbasket of Africa. We will be the missionary centre that sends
out the best in Africa that the world has ever seen.
Merry Christmas. A corrupt free Uganda is the special gift of Christmas that I offer you.
With a call to a corrupt free Uganda, Pastors from various parts of
the country hit the streets of Kampala on Wednesday to participate in
the first-of-its-kind anti-corruption walk.
Led by President Yoweri K. Museveni, the walk was aimed at showcasing
gains made so far in the fight against corruption, and announcing
government’s plans to stem the vice going forward.
The walk was held under the theme “a corrupt-free Uganda; it starts with me.”
Pastors were joined by intercessors who used this occasion to pray
for God’s mercy to restore and transform, to make right what is wrong,
most especially in the nation’s public sector. Many prayed for greater
transparency in the political and economic system of the nation.
They walked from the Constitutional Square in the city centre to
Kololo Independence Grounds—a distance of about four kilometres.
According to the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index report by
Transparency International, Uganda ranked 149 out of 175 countries with
highest corruption cases.
H.E
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Deputy speaker of parliament Jacob Oulanyah,
Pastor Robert Kayanja (founder and Senior Pastor of the Miracle Centre
Cathedral) and the State House Anti-corruption unit, leader, Lt Col
Edith Nakalema participate in the anti-corruption walk on Wednesday
amid heavy security deployment. PHOTO | Courtesy.
Bishop David
Livingstone Kiganda of Christianity Focus Centre, Mengo Kisenyi with
his wife, Cindy Kiganda participated in the anti-corruption walk held
Wednesday.
“Yes, everything starts from the realm of the spirit, before the
physical manifestation. The spiritual controls the physical. We need to
deal with the root cause of every challenge we face. I believe this
spirit manipulates these people’s action. Uganda, for God and my
Country, Uganda belongs to Jesus, corruption out,” observed Mrs Susan
Makarios, one of the advocates for prayer during the anti-corruption
walk.
‘Nothing is stronger than prayer,’ another remarked.
President Museveni while addressing multitudes at Kololo independence
grounds after the walk described corruption as “a moral and spiritual
problem.”
“Corrupt people are parasites and spiritually they are bad investors
because they think that the bad things they do which people don’t see,
God doesn’t see them too. God sees everything,” he said.
In his submission on the event, lead Pastor of Dominion Faith Church
located in Kampala, Cyrus Rod challenged Christians regarding their role
in the fight against Corruption.
“Corruption, simply defined, is abuse of entrusted power for personal
gain. Today our leaders walked in hope of driving corruption out of
Uganda. That is how they fight corruption and other vices. They walk
(call it demonstrations, protests, whatever but they walk) attract
attention and walk and attract attention. That is how they fight and I
respect them. But turning to the born again children of God who also
believe “walking” is how we believers fight corruption and other vices,
is to leave no doubt about how we have lost saltiness and are being
trampled underfoot. Believers have become useless. It is evidence the
world has infiltrated the church,” he said.
“As the saying goes, “if you can’t beat them, join them” and that is
how satan is hitting the church. Just bring the world in the church so
they start thinking like the world and they shall become useless. As
those born of incorruptible seed, though we are in the flesh we do not
war after the flesh. Our weapons are mighty through God to the pulling
down of strongholds…..We walk like Enoch walked, Like Abraham walked,
above all like Jesus walked. It is a life by faith not a show. We can’t
fight like the world fights and then expect to win like the church
wins,” he added.
Just recently, Pastor Kayanja said lack of accountability in the
public sector remains a serious problem for the current regime, as
misuse of government funds affects health services and infrastructure
projects in Uganda.
In attendance were government, judicial, security and civil society leaders among others.
