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Bishop Niringiye was walking back home at about 6:45pm when he was attacked near Legacy Courts in Ntinda, Nakawa Division in Kampala City
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Retired Bishop Zac Niringiye, an activist, has sustained injuries after thugs hit him with a brick on the head before robbing him of a mobile phone on Wednesday.
Bishop Niringiye was walking back home at about 6:45pm when he was attacked near Legacy Courts in Ntinda, Nakawa Division in Kampala City.
Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesman Luke Owoyesigyire confirmed the incident.
“The suspects took off after the crime. We are working around the clock to identify and arrest them. The good news is the victim is out of danger and has been discharged from hospital,” Mr Owoyesigyire said yesterday.
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Sunday April 11 2021
President Museveni (left) meets religious leaders during the African Bishop’s conference in July 2019. PHOTOS/ FILE, RACHEL MABALA
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Coming against a backdrop of unequivocal demands by President Museveni that religious leaders must leave politics to politicians, his revelations during Archbishop Kizito Lwanga’s funeral service at the Kololo Independence Grounds has only served to return the debate on whether or not religious leaders should be engaging in politics, or making pronouncements about matters politics.
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On Tuesday, President Museveni revealed that the late Archbishop of Kampala Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, his predecessor, Cardinal Nsubuga, and other religious leaders had been supportive of the National Resistance Army’s (NRA’s) five-year Bush War.