Set free by security officials in Uganda after completing his jail term, William Paul Muwanguzi, famously known as ‘Pastor Kiwedde’ has recommitted his life to Christ and pledged to go to Bible school for spiritual guidance and better understanding of scripture.
Mr Muwanguzi was on Sunday baptized by immersion after confessing and asking for God’s forgiveness during a prayer service at Namirembe Christian Fellowship.
The Church senior pastor, Prof. Simeon Kayiwa used the occasion to remind fellow pastors about Jesus’ love and grace, noting that the Church ought to help find those who have lost their way and welcome them back.
We have the responsibility of discipling them and shaping them according to the way Jesus wants them to be, he explained.
“Two (2) days ago, Pastor Muwanguzi ‘Kiwedde’ called me on phone. He told me that he felt he needed to come and confess of his sins before a pastor, the entire Church and before Jesus Christ, so that I may be fully forgiven,” Prof. Simeon Kayiwa said on Sunday.
“He told me that he wants to get baptized,” he added.
Prof. Kayiwa explained that Muwanguzi went astray and off track but he has decided to come back again, and “become real Born again.”
He urged gospel ministers to show mercy, and live in harmony with one another, so that everyone is comfortable to approach them for spiritual help. “Jesus is a God of restoration. His mission is to save that which is lost,” he said.
Background
William Paul Muwanguzi became famous because of his activities at his defunct Church under the name of Holy Fire Ministries at Namulanda Village along Kampala- Entebbe road where thousands of believers used to gather to receive ‘miracles’.
He is said to have extorted a lot of money from his followers from which he accumulated wealth and bought lavish cars he branded ‘Kiwedde’ meaning ‘it is done’.
In 2013, he was arrested in Rakai District, where he was impersonating a Kenyan Catholic priest who was performing prayers and miracles of healing, and extorted colossal sums of money from hundreds of unsuspecting followers.
However, after serving part of his sentence at Mutukula prison, in 2014, Kiwedde escaped from prison and managed to get out of the country through Mutukula border before going to Zimbabwe from where he was repatriated back to Uganda in November 2016 to complete his sentence.
He had been sentenced to a four-year jail term for impersonation but was give two more years for the prison break and being in possession of a fake passport in the names of David Mubiru.
He was released September 2018 after fully completing his jail term.
News Agencies contributed to this report.
