Kawaala-based Revival Church lead pastor, Andrew Jjengo has opened up on the reason behind his bitter split with late pastor Yiga’s ex-lover and church member Nabbi Omukazi, real name Maggie Kayima.
According to pastor Jjengo, when his father passed on in 2020, Maggie Kayima who was in the company of pastor Siraje Ssemanda of Revival church, Bombo approached him, suggesting that they should team up and work together since they were all youths.
He gladly welcomed the idea and the pair went ahead to draft a new program lineup on how the church services would run following Yiga’s death; directing that pastor Jjengo would step on the pulpit first and Maggie Kayima was to come in last citing she knew how to deal with the congregation and Siraje would minister every Wednesday.
I listened to all this and along the way, they mentioned that we should also start rallying the congregation to meet the President. The idea was great especially in this economy but as soon as they demanded that we had to collect money from them to see the president, I lost it. How do you make people pay money yet they are not sure if they will be given anything after visiting the State House,” Jjengo questioned.
He immediately cut them off and later that year, Nabbi Omukazi and Pastor Siraje were arrested by security operatives for allegedly fleecing a large number of followers over Shs 4.5 billion between 2017 and 2019, claiming that their organization would offer scholarships from the State House, house the needy, construct churches for pastors among many other offers.
Being an accessory to the crime, Maggie Kayima was remanded in Kigo Prison in December 2020 and released in March 2021, and later she relocated to the US.
Pastor Jjengo reveals that the two wanted to take advantage of his congregation and obtain money despite being low-income earners.
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They were targeting my church congregation to confuse them and ask for kickbacks. My people are not rich. They are low-income earners and when they try so hard to raise the money they were demanding for them, it means they have sold everything they own.
I could not stand living a life of defrauding people because I have never done it in my life, he noted.
