President Museveni’s convoy excites biggest crowd at Universal Church Mega Youth Crusade in Busoga

Описание: President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pledged to resolve the issue of registering new/modern churches as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).

“The issue of periodic registration of new churches as NGOs, we are going to resolve it. A church is a church, not an NGO,” he said.
President Museveni made the remarks yesterday during the Universal Church Mega Youth Crusade organised by Prophet David Isanga, the spiritual head of Universal Apostles Fellowship Church of Righteousness in Kaliro.
The Crusade ran under the theme: “Remember Your Creator In the Days of Your Youth Before the Days of Evil Come Ecclesiastes 12:1”.
The President’s pledge followed Prophet Isanga’s request to have the registration scrapped.
“For long this Church has been registering as Non-Governmental Organization yet this is the only indigenous Church founded by typical Ugandans; its unique in its calling and I think even the rest of the world are looking forward to see it through that the Church of Righteousness propagates to their countries,” Prophet Isanga said.
“We therefore request you, Your Excellency, that these taxes in the name of registering us as NGOs or Companies limited by guarantee every after five years are scrapped.”
On the other hand, President Museveni also reiterated his call to the people of Busoga to embrace the 4-acre Model type of farming.
He said when they take his advice, they will be able to create wealth.
“When I was coming here from where I landed, I was looking through the homesteads, I saw that you need to do something about homestead incomes with “ekibaro” in this area,” the President pointed out.
“After analysis, we recommend seven activities for you if you are working in a small area. We said have 1 acre of coffee, because the “ekibaro” showed us that with 1 acre of coffee, you can have Shs15m or more a year, secondly have an acre of fruits such as mangoes, oranges or pineapples, acre 3 plant pasture for zero grazing cattle, number 4 grow food crops like cassava. In the backyard do poultry for eggs and piggery. Finally, do fish farming in ponds for those near the wetlands. Wetlands can be used in a good way but for you, you are using them in a bad way; you use them to destroy the environment, yet you get so little from that,” he added.
President Museveni further noted that in order to modernise agriculture, the people of Busoga and Uganda at large should adopt irrigation, especially using water from the wetlands.
“I now want the Basoga to do the kibaro, if we irrigate all the acreage on the dry land, how much shall we get in terms of more yield? We are not against you using the wetlands but we want you to use them in a better way so that we can do more and get more money.”
President Museveni also thanked the followers of Prophet Isanga for strictly practising the four dimensions of Jesus Christ.
“In the 1960s, one of the problems we had with the religious teachings was talking about only one dimension of Jesus Christ. They would teach the gospel but from the Bible, I could see that God had four dimensions; first of all, he was preaching the gospel, secondly, he was healing the sick, thirdly, he fed the hungry, then finally, he himself worked in the carpentry of Joseph when he was a young person. Therefore, to say that you are a Christian but you don't work, I could not agree with that,” he emphasized.
President Museveni also reminded believers that when the NRM government had just come to power in 1986, a group of religious leaders approached him and requested that he ban the Balokole Churches. He however turned down the request and his simple decision has since helped to create a new energy that has added value to the country.
“I had a good foundation from the Bible so when these very powerful people came telling me to ban the Balokole churches, I remembered when people told Jesus that some people were pretending to cast out demons like he was doing, they asked him if they could stop them. Jesus told them don't stop them, if they are not against us, they are with us. So, I didn't see why I should fight people who say that they are also working for God in their own way,” the President asserted.
The Secretary General of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), Rt. Hon. Richard Todwong said Bishop David Isanga personally invited them to the Crusade to witness God's decree over President Museveni’s leadership and wonders for the people of Uganda.
On his part, Apostle Isanga thanked President Museveni for honouring their invitation.
“I thank God because when you promised that you will come back after the first visit in 2013 to see what Universal Church does, we have been patient until today when you have honoured your promise,” he said.
Furthermore, Prophet Isanga thanked the President for his strong stance against homosexuality where he proved this by passing the Anti-Homosexuality Law.