Renowned Kampala born -Again pastor Robert Kayanja of Lubaga Miracle Center has appeared before the Mwanga 11 court testifying against a group of 9 former “Kiface ” gang members who allegedly trespassed at his church and gave false information to police that he had sodomized them.
In his testimony, Pastor Kayanja says he met the gang during his revival dubbed 77 DOGs in 2017 when they were among the people that came to turn their lives to Jesus at the church.Kayanja has stated that as a church, they welcomed the group which also in turn helped them to identify wrong elements.
That after a while, the group expressed a desire to join the security of the church and were consistently recruited at Kabalye training school.After passing out, Kayanja has told court that the suspects were deployed at the Church and at the farm in Kiryandongo at a Rotational basis.
That the deployment also came with accommodation, an allowance as it had been agreed that the rest of the salary be saved on their behalf until a time they became adults and independent.Kayanja the 13th prosecution witness has stated that however he began receiving reports of theft, assault, Robbery and abandonment of the farm by the suspects who then stated to him that they were tired of working and needed all their money paid.
Kayanja says he then sent the suspects to the finance department where a figure of how much each owes was reached and agreed to be paid in installments.To his surprise however; Kayanja has told court that on 17th/ September 2021 during lock- down when no one was allowed to access the church, the suspects breached security, roughed and beat up the people at the Church gate, entered and began shouting obscenities while filming and recording themselves that” they had come to be paid their sodomy money having been sodomised by Kayanja and some other people at the church”.
Kayanja says the videos were made to go viral and as a pastor for the last 30 years , he was shocked, hurt , annoyed and could not tell where these malicious statements where coming from especially that this was not the first time he is being accused of Sodomy .
Kayanja who has totally denied being gay has cited a similar incident in 2010 when fellow pastors Solomon Male , Micheal Kyazze , Martin Ssempa and 2 other people were convicted and sentenced to 100hrs of community service by Buganda Road court .
It’s easier said than done