THE ARREST OF PASTOR MICHAEL KYAZZE AND BOB KAYIIRA OF OMEGA HEALING CENTRE IS CONDEMNED

Pastor Ssempa of Makerere Community Church and other pastorn vehemently condemned the arrest of Pastor Michael Kyazze and Bob Kayiira both of Omega Healing Centre. Expressing his solidarity with pastor Kyazze – a fellow fighter in the war against sodomy he said that Pastor Michael Kyazze and Bob Kayiira had clean records and the charges against them were baseless and unfounded. In what he termed as trumped up charges, pastor Martin Ssempa said that by dragging his colleagues to the police was part of a much wider scheme of silencing them one by one so that they give up on their fight against sodomy which pastor Kayanja of Rubaga Miracle Centre was implicated. Pastor Ssempa said that there were some sections of the police that were bent to undermining the cause of justice and that the police had no credibility in handling the case. He reiterated his earlier sentiments by calling upon the president of the country to institute an independent commission of inquiry to look into the sodomy saga.

Pastor Male Solomon too expressed his concern that the police had mishandled the sodomy cases in the country. Out of the many cases over sodomy that police has handled, none of them had been conclusively concluded. He too casted a dark shadow on the credibility of the police handling sodomy cases creating a false impression to the public that sodomy was not a reality in Uganda yet it is in our midst. Asked whether his attack on Kayanja were jealously driven he said, “kayanja is just a small sodomy problem part of the much bigger, wider and complicated sodomy saga in the country.”

Pastor Michael Kyazze and Pastor Bob Kayiira were arrested at the Kampala Central Police Station when they responded to the calls by police for interrogation after Pastor Kayanja allegedly accused them of conspiracy and trespass. They were later on released on police bond where Pastor Martin Ssempa stood in as a surety for pastor Michael Kyazze and Pastor Male stood in as a surety for pastor Bob Kayiira.