Having asked President Yoweri Museveni to make the current presidential term his last in office, Pastor Joseph Sserwadda has now called on his followers to stop interceding for the President and his family during their prayers.
Sserwadda is the senior pastor of Victory Christian Center in Ndeeba, and the head of the Born-Again Pentecostal faith in Uganda.
In a recent church service, the pastor advised his faithful against wasting time and energy praying for President Museveni, a man that has much more wealth and blessings than anyone else in the country.
“Those of you who are praying for the president and his family….let’s start with yours. The man you are praying for, you have no idea how much money he has. You don’t know where he’s keeping his wealth. You don’t even know that his cows travel by air…his cows are airlifted alive when they are being exported,” he said.
The man of God added that Christians praying for the Head of State are “undertaking a project that does not concern you.”
“First pray f0r your own blessing, start with your house, pray for your husband to also get 5 cows.”
Sserwadda is a known supporter of President Museveni and the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) government that is credited for liberalizing the religious sector in Uganda, which had come under immense pressures under the iron-fist rule of President Idi Amin.
Sserwadda has also bragged about being the president’s confidant and having had private meetings with him.
However, in 2020, the senior pastor advised Museveni not to contest again once he completes the current (2021-26) presidential term.
“There should be a small team of people that brings this up to him and says, ‘Mr President, there will be a Uganda where you will not be, whether you like it or not; You are the one that keeps talking about grandchildren. Well, your grandchildren have now grown. They are very old, they have even grown beards,'” Serwadda said during an overnight service, in June 2020, months to the 2021 elections.
The pastor explained that Museveni needed reassurance that the (opposition) groups that keep breathing down his neck would not come after him while in retirement.
Such groups, he said, should choose peace and not war.
