The hearing of a case in which nine youths are accused of falsely accusing Pastor Robert Kayanja of forcing them into sodomy has stalled after the Grade One magistrate, Adams Byarugaba, is said to be unwell and therefore indisposed.
The nine are Peter Serugo, Reagan Ssentongo, Khalifa Labeeb, Alex Wakamala, Martins Kagolo, Israel Wasswa, Jamil Mwanda, and Aggrey Kinene.
On Friday, the Court was expected to hear testimony from a second accused after Monday’s session in which 24 year old Martin Kagoro gave an unsworn testimony while accusing pastor Kayanja of luring him into unnatural anal offences by seducing him with empty travel promises and money.
However, the prosecution’s strong evidence are the medical examination reports from Mulago National Refferal Hospital which found spinchesters/ anal muscles of the accused intact.
The prosecution, led by Chief State Attorney Jonathan Muwaganya, wondered how pastor Kayanja could have repeatedly performed annal sex with the accused persons without rupturing their muscles.
The prosecution did not ask him any questions regarding how he claims to have joined Rubaga Miracle Centre in 2019, working in different departments for months and years, going for police training in Kabalye, before he was arrested the following year.
Kagoro and eight others were in November told that they had a case to answer and ordered to defend themselves against charges of trespass at Rubaga Miracle Cathedral and giving false information to police.
Meanwhile, an arrest warrant against three individuals who stood as sureties to Moses Tumwine, who has since gone missing, is still in force.
Byarugaba on Monday ordered the arrest of Tracy Namugga, Patrick Ayebare and Abdul Kayondo. This is after Chief State Attorney Jonathan Muwaganya told the court that the trio had breached their duty to the court to bring back Tumwine to stand trial with the rest of the co-accused.
The court also extended Tumwine’s arrest warrant until the next court sitting on May 23rd.
In his testimony in October, Pastor Kayanja told Byarugaba that the nine individuals falsely accused him of sodomy. He alleged a conspiracy to frame him, linking one of the accused, Israel Wasswa, to Pastor Ssenyonga, a longtime rival.
Pastor Kayanja expressed frustration over the repeated false accusations against him, citing previous cases in 2010 and 2013 where he was falsely accused of sodomy.
He noted that in the 2010 case, five pastors – Solomon Male, Michael Kyazze, Martin Sempa, Mukalazi, and Deborah Kyomuhendo – were found guilty of falsely accusing him but were only sentenced to 100 hours of community service by the Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court.
Pastor Kayanja also referenced the 2013 case where two individuals, Moses Muhanguzi and Ibrahim Nsubuga, falsely accused him of sodomy.
He stated that they were handed non-deterrent sentences for attempting to bribe a doctor to conclude that they had been sodomized.
The Prosecution alleges that the accused persons and others still at large on or about September 17th 2021, in Kampala District conspired together to falsely accuse Pastor Kayanja of unnatural offences.
They are further accused of conspiracy to defeat Justice, commit a felony, criminal trespass and giving false information to police.
It is alleged that Serugo, Ssentongo, Khalifa, Wakamala and Kagoro, while employed in the Public Service as Police officers, gave false information to police detective IP Cotilda Nandutu, saying that Pastor Kayanja had performed unnatural offences with them.
The Prosecutors say they did this intentionally knowing that they would cause the said Nandutu and police to devote time and services to investigate information they knew was false.