Ugandan “god” dies in Kenyan Hospital

President Yoweri Museveni has ordered that a self proclaimed God also known as Omukama Ruhanga Owobusobozi Bisaka be accorded a State Burial due to the immense contributions towards the development of Uganda.

“We announce the passing on of Omukama Ruhanga Owobusobozi Bisaka, the founder of the Faith of Unity of all people,” a statement said on Sunday.  Bisaka will be buried on January 31st.

Details indicate that the self proclaimed God died last week in neighbouring Kenya where he had been rushed after developing breathing complications

Several people including government representatives lined up near a military chopper to receive the body of the founder of the Faith of Unity, also known by some as Omukama Ruhanga Owobusobozi Bisaka, in his home in Kapyeemi village, Muhororo Town Council in Kagadi district in mid western Uganda.

Before his death, Owobusobozi Bisaka claimed he had supernatural powers to heal all kind of illnesses and says he was able to unite people from around the world.

Who is Bisaka?

Bisaka was born on 11 June 1930 in the Kitoma Kiboizi village, in Buyanja county, Kibaale district in Western Uganda. His parents were Petero Byombi and Agnes Kabaoora.

Both of them were staunch members of the local Catholic parish of Bujuni. According to Bisaka, he spent little time with his parents, as he lived and grew up with his grandparents from the age of eight years.

His father was a Catholic catechist, as was his grandfather, Alifonsio Wenkere, who was a pioneer convert at Bujuni Catholic parish. His grandmother, Martha Nyakaka, was also a Catholic convert and a captive in the palace of Mengo, where she witnessed to the martyrdom of Charles Lwanga and 21 other Ugandan martyrs in the 19th century .

While his grandfather was occupied with church activities at the local parish, young Bisaka was tutored in Catholic teachings and doctrines by his grandmother, whose spiritual life formed a backbone and religio-moral compass for her grandson.

As would become evident later in Bisaka’s life, his grandmother did not only transmit the Catholic doctrines of the time to him, but also her experience of horror, conflict, violence and intolerance, and divisiveness which missionary Christianity heralded at the time in their local communities.

The grandmother’s experience of the religious intolerance and violence in the Kingdom of Buganda, especially under the reign of Mwanga II of Buganda (who was the Kabaka of Buganda from 188488; 1889-97), must have left an indelible mark in the mind of young Bisaka to influence the emphasis on religious unity which is the distinctive doctrine of the FoU (Faith of Unity).

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