Museveni to give clerics 5bn to promote gov’t programme

Museveni to give clerics 5bn to promote gov’t programme

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a move that has been criticized by some members of parliament and talk show pundits, President Museveni on May 04  announced that he will be extending money worth Shs5billion to the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda to enable clerics popularize the government’s operation wealth Creation Programme.

This comes less than a month after taking the religious leaders to a tour of farms in western and central Uganda and later hosting them to a dinner at his country home in Rwakitura.

While at the event, Museveni who revealed that a meeting of 1000 religious leaders will be held in July to sketch the programme for implementation added that the money will help them while executing the task of preaching to their believers how to get themselves out of poverty at parish level.

In addition to this he promised religious institutions another perk of getting them cars.

To some pundits however, Museveni’s move is not about development but he is rather winning them back after their relationship went sour last year at the height of the age limit debate where many of them called for a referendum to decide on whether or not the constitution could be amendment to remove presidential age limits.

The feud between the church and government climaxed early in the year when Archbishop Cyprian Lwanga told believers that he was being spied on, that’s how talks between the two parties started.