Apostle Tumwine Charles. Courtesy Photo.
KAMPALA – The “negativity” exhibited by a section of the the general public towards Uganda Airlines’ Bombardier CRJ900 planes has come up as a concern for Apostle Charles Tumwine.
The team leader of New Life Harvest Church International and Ebenezer World Outreach Ministry urged Ugandans on Sunday to thank God and commend efforts to revive the Uganda Airlines, a company shut down about 17 years ago.
Why don’t we thank God, Apostle Charles Tumwine wondered during Dream TV’s ‘Ebizimba Okukkiriza’ program.
“This is a score,” he continued, explaining how critics of the revived Uganda airlines are unobjective in their arguments.
He was in the company of Bishop Ronald Mukiibi, who was quick to note that not all supporters of national development should be viewed as crusaders of the NRM, but as patriots.
While unveiling the new planes at Entebbe International Airport last week, President Yoweri Museveni assured the people of Uganda that the new Uganda Airline will be a successful undertaking because of the big Ugandan diaspora, the very many Uganda business people that travel and the many tourists coming to visit the country.
“When you are mingling millet, you must wait for the right temperature of the water to put in flour. If too early, it will be spoilt and if too late, it will be spoilt. The old Ugandan Airline died and in Africa when you die you are buried. But when old people die, new ones are born; so this is the new baby. I was among the undertakers of the funeral of the old airlines. Here I am among the midwifery delivering the new baby,” the President said.
Mr. Museveni noted that the revival of Uganda Airline would reduce on the foreign expenditure since Ugandans would now be spending their travel money on their own air carrier.
The airplanes received a water salute, followed by dancing from the Crane performers and applause from several Ugandan officials.
