In appreciation of Archbishop Ntagali

Ugandans should be proud that our senior and eminent religious leaders have courageously come out and condemned misgovernance, abuse of office and corruption.
In Uganda, Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala, the Archbishop emeritus of Kampala, His Grace Stanley Ntagali, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, the Archbishop of Kampala, John Baptist Odama, the Archbishop of Gulu, and the muftis of Old Kampala and Kibuli have frequently spoken openly against the evils that are inflicted on Ugandans by some people simply because of the desire to divide and rule us.
Today, we examine the work Archbishop Ntagali and his colleagues in the Church of Uganda have done.
In the New Vision of October 22, it was observed that he was concern about a priest who was conned by Mulago medics.
It is not the first time that His Grace has condemned corruption. In his Easter message last year, the Archbishop decried corruption in the same sector and urged the Ministry of Health to clean up “the messy situation”.
The Archbishop narrated incidents of the kind of corruption he condemns while addressing students and staff at the Uganda Institute of Allied Health and Management Sciences in Mulago recently.
“We hear cases of corruption at several levels, but I want to encourage you to always be selfless. We need to be honest and love other people, especially the sick. Be honest enough to save life because whereas you treat, God heals,” he said.
It is terrible that some people do not look at patients like Jesus would. Today people are so selfish that they do not care about other people.
I can testify that since I got an accident and was indisposed, busy as he is, Archbishop Ntagali and his wife have taken trouble to visit and pray for me at my residence.
I also know that he has carried out numerous missions of a similar nature throughout Uganda. His love and convictions to speak and advise on human endeavours and failures never diminish.
Under prevailing global political, economic, social and environmental developments, established values and standards have been devalued and become unnatural.
They include bestiality, homosexuality and marriages of same sex.
However, Church of Uganda is one of the few institutions which continue to adhere strictly to the standards and values that have allowed humanity to evolve, develop and survive against a new fashion suggesting that adhering to the values of the past is outmoded, primitive and unscientific.
The likes of Archbishop Ntagali and other religious leaders who protect what nature and God ordained must be thanked and saluted.
It is for these reasons that Archbishop Ntagali, his colleagues in other faiths of a similar disposition and belief are admired and loved in and outside Uganda.
Indigenous African religions and cultures abhor the practices of this new sub-culture. Other races and other countries share with us the same revulsions and rejection of unnatural cultures.
It is the calibre and honesty of the likes of Archbishop Ntagali which keep the candles of hope and future burning brightly.