{UAH} AMIN, A MUSLIM, IS THE FOUNDER OF CHURCH HOUSE FOR THE CHRISTIANS OF UGANDA.

Photo: Church House in Kampala.

Waking up this morning to the concerning news headline that Church House is being auctioned because of financial mismanagement by the Anglican church is shocking to say the least.

As I have previously stated, the Church House property in Kampala was donated to the Anglican Church (Protestants) by the Amin government in 1972. At the time, the Catholics were given the Mapeera House property, while the Muslims got the Old Kampala property where sits the Uganda National Mosque (known today as Ghaddafi Mosque).

The handover of the premises to the different faiths happened as part of the economic empowerment policies of the Amin government in taking the country from a British/Asians colonial economy, to a pure Ugandan economy based on indeginous entrepreneurs, and indeginous endeavours. That is how Amin is known as "The Father of the Ugandans Economy!"

The three religions mentioned above were officially recognized by the Amin government.

In 1978, for the construction of this very Church House, the Amin government further donated to Uganda's Christians the equivalent of $3 million in today's US Dollars at an illustrious public ceremony that was held at city square in the center of the capital Kampala, right opposite Church House's newly donated premises. And in the over 30 years since then, the Anglican Church received countless more donations from local and international well wishers, all towards this same endeavour that saw construction finally start in 2011, and only just completed recently in 2018.

To hear that today the Church House property is to be auctioned off over debts is very disturbing, especially to those of us who know the enormous contributions they have received over decades, plus the efforts made by the original founder of Church House on behalf of all Ugandans, for the country's Christians.

The Anglican Church must therefore take responsibility for any unproductive political or economic actions and behavioral ideologies that it has entangled itself in since time immemorial. Clear there is lack of sustainability of their practices over time. They must therefore exit the culture of political dependence and reliance on divisive politics to thrive. Endeavours which have greatly contributed to them believing in unrealistic accounting practices known to be based on submitting to political leaders who advance their religious sectarianism beliefs, and fighting the political battles of their chosen ones, in disregard of the fundamental tenet to respect the purest sovereignty of the people. The Anglican church must rather fully submit to God's work and purpose for all the people of this country.

This secret practice of religious political sectarianism is no secret to Uganda's political elites for the past 60 years.

The Church of Uganda, now appearing as a dwindling financially indebted torch that once provided sparkling divine enlightenment to millions of Ugandans, has just been celebrating 60 years of independence from British religious colonialism over the weekend. Therefore they must go back to the drawing board of atonement alone, and seek solutions to their overeach. I would advise them to start by restructuring both their internal and external managerial processes and political ideologies, and quickly get in line with robust competitive organizational best practices.

They must also serve in accordance with their own religious doctrines of unity, charity, development, learning, self reliance, truth, atonement, peaceful co-existence and genuine national reconciliation away from ulterior religious sub wars, and never allow themselves to be used by any politician or political affiliation, especially being used by sectarianism.

The choice of the country's political leadership is a sacred domain reserved exclusively for the people of this country and their political leaders. Not the Church, nor the Mosque!

Least of all, rather than perpetuating divisive politics in this country for the proverbial "cheap political capital", the Anglican Church must learn to publicly express gratefulness without any discrimination whatsoever, to all those who have made genuine historic efforts in support of their existence and growth in this country, and thereby make a fresh start away from political backstabbing and elaborate ingratitude schemes. Remember for example how in 1976 an Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Janan Luwum, was caught red-handed instigating from Church premises the very kidnappings, murders and disappearances against the people of Uganda which he had been pretending to complain about to the government, a disturbing behaviour which the Anglican Church is mysteriously silent about, yet trying to pass that cruel and heinous endeavour as some sort of historic martyrdom.

The Church of Uganda needs to desist from persisting in national divisionism, and instead march together towards truth and better days with all Ugandans regardless of faith, political affiliation or ethnic background.

Signed: Mr. Hussein Lumumba Amin.

Kampala, Uganda.

Monday, 26th 2021.

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