Church leaders under their umbrella organisation Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC) have through the chairperson, Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga denied recruiting people to spy on the President with the intentions of knocking him out of power.
This development comes following as anonymous call Dr Lwanga reportedly received saying that government had received information linking him [Dr Lwanga] to a plot to overthrow the government.
Speaking to press and believers at Old Kampala playground, Dr Lwanga said the anonymous caller warned him to be careful, saying he might be the next Janan Luwum, the former Archbishop of Church of Uganda, who was killed by government operatives on February 16, 1977.
Dr Lwanga explained, “This person had an accent from western Uganda and this is what he told me. That ‘there are many lies being told to the president’. Two, that ‘even members of these organisations have recruited your priests, your sisters, your brothers, even catechists and even seminarians.’ And I said, ‘what?'”
He added, “Even this man told me last week that be careful my grace, you might be the next [Jana] Luwum. I said my goodness, if God wants me to die that way, I will. But if I am going to die for wrong accusations, that is criminal. You know for murdering people there are two things; you can shoot a person over what they call character assassination. So some members of ESO, ISO, CMI etcetera, they are character assassinating people and that is not good. But fortunately, those of you who are believers, there is still in a period of lent which are concluding tomorrow…I kindly call upon you to repent and stop telling lies.”
Lwanga urged the said informants to stop misleading the president.
“Mr president we love you very much and that is why we have been electing you. These people are your enemies. They’re going to make you fail because your mind is poisoned and you act on such information,” he said.
“Call us your excellency, even individually and tell us face to face hat is on the ground. Also be kind enough to tell us those recruited in ISO, ESO, CMI from our side and we’ll also tell you what concerns them so that you know who and why what they’re saying. But we forgive them, if you’re here present, please repent and remember why you became religious, why you became a leader in the church. Jesus said you can’t serve two masters at ago. The best thing is to resign,” he added.
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