By Our Reporter

On Sunday, presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi attended a prayer service at Omega Healing Centre, which is located along Entebbe Road.

Mr Kyagulanyi stated that he was deeply grateful to Pastor Michael Kyazze for allowing him to fellowship with the Church, and for giving him an opportunity to speak to the congregation.

The pop-star turned politician used his speech to condemn the arrest of his team by security operatives when he travelled to Kalangala Islands on December 30, 2020 for electoral campaigns.

“I know that there are so many Ugandans who sympathize with what we are going through, and some of them serve with the police and army,” Mr Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine said.

“I would like you to send out information to our brothers in prison that there is one king in scriptures who tortured people of God, he captured three (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego) and threw them in a hot furnace. King Nebuchadnezzar looked at them in flames, but they were not being consumed by them. He later realized a forth person with them. When he looked intently, he saw the forth person was like an angel. To my brother behind bars, God is with you. You have committed no offense, you don’t deserve to be behind bars. You don’t deserve to be canned,” he added.

Mr Kyagulanyi urged that beyond peace, religious leaders should also pray for Justice to prevail in Uganda. “Our hope is not in professors or judges, but it is in God and it is in you (church leaders) who bring us closer to Him,” he said.

“As you call us to pray for peace, also pray for justice because there cannot be peace if there is no justice. There can’t be peace if there is no freedom. Peace is not just the absence of war, peace is the presence of justice,” Kyagulanyi said.

On his part, Pastor Kyazze encouraged youth to exercise their constitutional right and vote wisely in the forthcoming presidential polls.

He said no one will destabilize the elections, encouraging candidates to accept the final outcome of the heated polls after 14 January.

Pastor Kyazze told Mr Kyagulanyi: “I have been viewing and following your campaign trail on TV. There are moments you have cried and I have wept with you, for your friends, and the trouble you go through. I just want to thank you for standing. It is not easy. I am sorry for your friends who have been slain, sorry for those who are in prison. Though distant, there are moments I felt, ‘can I hug him, and assure him he is not in the wrong, he is doing his best.’ So today, I just felt Iike praying over you, that God may take away your burdens.”

“May God help my children see a new President,” He continued.