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UGANDA: POLICE IN SEARCH FOR PASTOR OF COLLAPSED CHURCH March 10, 2006
Apunyu Bonny
(SomaliNet) The police are looking for the Pastor of City of the Lord Church in Kalerwe, Kampala which collapsed on Wednesday evening killing 28 people.
Pastor Geoffrey Luwaga of City of the Lord Church is reported to be on the run. Mean while The Divisional Police Commander for neighboring Wandegeya Police Station, Lauben Mbamanya, says police is looking for Pastor Luwaga. Pastor Luwaga is wanted for questioning about the circumstances surrounding the collapse of his church building. Mbamanya says police are also tracing the details of the company, which was contracted to construct the church.
City of the Lord Church collapsed during a rain storm on Wednesday. Witnesses say a loud noise was heard around the walls of the church before the walls of the building collapsed, injuring over 100 women, men and children in the process.
Among the survivors of the tragedy were 3-year-old twins, Jemima Babirye and Jolly Nakato were pulled out of the rubble shortly after the incident and have been admitted at Mulago Hospital with serious injuries.
Ugandan government has announced that it will institute a commission of inquiry into the collapse of the building. It has vowed to punish those found responsible.
Mean while, the Kampala City Council said yesterday that the city authority had stopped the church founders from building the church at that site but the pastors sought the president’s intervention who ordered that they go ahead and build the church.