By Mulengera Reporters
Masaka Catholic Diocesan Bishop Serverus Jjumba used his sermon during his first mass in the New Year (2026), this Thursday at the Kitovu Cathedral, to register his newly found fear for men in uniform these days.
Bishop Jjumba said that, following the recent disappearance of Rev. Fr. Deusdedit Sekabira (one of the priests under his pastoral supervision), he is these days full of too much fear and phobia about men in uniform to the extent that he immediately gets goose pimples and begins shivering the moment he sees the UPDF uniform even on TV or in a newspaper article.
The bishop controversially said that he these days fears members of the country’s security forces the way those who were adult enough in the country feared Amin’s State Research Bureau operatives in the 1970s. He told the congregation to pray in their parishes and respective homes for a peaceful election exercise come 15th January 2026.
He also called upon the President and other responsible officials holding public office in Uganda to realize that time has come for the millions of Uganda’s young people (who are clearly now the majority) to be deliberately listened to, as opposed to being merely dismissed with contempt, coerced, barked at and ordered around.
He added that not engaging and listening to them will only radicalize Uganda’s youths further. He asserted that from what he knows, as a shepherd who interacts with them all the time, he has realized the young people are impatient and aren’t going to be prepared to continue living in a country governed by insensitive leaders who unleash brutality instead of humbling themselves and humbly listening to them whenever they are out there articulating their service delivery-related concerns because many of them rightly feel they have been excluded and alienated from enjoying their country’s resources.
His message, calling for humility among leaders and inclusion of all citizens, isn’t that much different from what was rendered by the Kiyinda-Mityana Catholic Bishop Anthony Zziwa and Anglican Archbishop Stephen Kazimba Mugalu who called for forgiveness, reconciliation, unity and peace as the country prepares for the 15th January elections. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
