AMB. NKURUHO: DON’T AWARD ANGLICAN CHURCH TITLES TO THE RICH, FOCUS ON THE COMMITTED POOR CHRISTIANS

The late canon Jovanis Bahigwa
born 21st Aug 1943
Died 11th Feb 2023

By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante
In Bushenyi

The retired Ambassador of Uganda to Australia Amb. Enoch Nkuruh has advised Bishops and other church leaders not to award titles like canon, elders, church wardens and extra to the rich but to award committed poor Christians.

“Don’t look at me because am an ambassador and give me a church title of canon and leave behind the poor committed women who come to church every Sunday and offer what they have” Ambassador. Nkuruho observed.

He said this today 14/02/2023 at Kyeitembe church of Uganda during a funeral service of the late canon Jovanis Bahigwa who succumbed to diabetes on Feb 11th 2023 in kampala.

According to the son and the heir of the late Bahigwa, Mr. Robert Mugisha Bahigwa told the people in the church that her mother tested positive to diabetes in 1990’s and it escalated after the death of her husband the late Israel Bahigwa around 2012.

Robert Mugisha Bahigwa the heir of the late Israel Bahigwa

Mugisha added that effects of diabetes brought into her life a disease of forgetfulness and even during covid she amputated as a result of diabetes.

Her daughter who took care of her for 6 years in kampala Stellah Bahigwa and her husband Nyanzi thanked GOD for giving them the life of their mother up to 80 years.

Senior Presidential advisor in charge of security Chris Rwakasisi hailed the husband of the late canon Jovanis Bahigwa for influencing the President to release him from the death row.

The late Israel Bahigwa is the one who linked information in 2009 that I was going to be released from Luzira prison and prepared one of his houses for me to rest from.

The late Israel Bahigwa didn’t know how to read and write but could speak to the President as if he was speaking to his peers.

The late Bahigwa told the President that we cannot drink and dine when my brother Rwakasisi is rotting in prison.

The burial will take place tomorrow 15/02/2023 at their ancestral home in Kyeitembe ward Bushenyi-Ishaka municipality, Bushenyi district western Uganda.

Canon Mzee Bashasha, Chris Rwakasisi, and Amb. Nkuruho recieving the body of late canon Jovanis Bahigwa at Kyeitembe church of Uganda