{UAH} 21 arrested for refusing to register for the national census

Police in Bulambuli District yesterday arrested and detained 21 people at Bulambuli Central Police station for disobeying lawful orders to register for the National Census 2014. The National Population and Housing Census began early Thursday.

The District police commander Alphonse Musoni told the Media that the suspects were arrested for sabotaging a government programmes, in violation of the law.

The suspects belong to a religious sect that does not believe in counting and the use of figures, saying it’s satanic.

Other hundreds have reportedly abandoned their homes in fear of being counted. The same group of people also are alleged not to have taken part in the national Identity Card Registration that ended last month and earlier on refused their children to go to school fearing that the Pupil Identification Number (PIN) introduced by the Education ministry in the late 1990s is associated with 666. The book of Revelations in the Bible says 666 is the beast symbol.

It is also known that the group do not own phones neither do they make phone calls. During times of prayer in their church, they don’t clap hands neither do they offer tithe or offerings as these acts offend God.

Furthermore the group of faithful’s called ‘Injiri’ which means gospel do not take their children for Immunization and never seek medical help during illness.

The Injilli has over 70,000 members. Although the followers say they do not have a leader and claim that anybody can preach, Francis Buyi of Bulegeni Parents School, says they are led by Perez Mongi, a senior pastor, who broke away from the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

They pray on Saturdays and often hold monthly crusades. Mongi broke away from the Seventh Day Adventists because he was not given a chance to lead them. The followers are mostly illiterate and poor.

They do not tithe because they believe Jesus Christ offered his body as the only tithe and nothing else is supposed to replace this. They do not borrow from anybody and believe in working very hard so that they get whatever they want.

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