The project was valued at 2.5 billion Shillings. West Buganda Diocese agreed to sell off Ntusi Diocesan Ranch in Sembabule district at about 2.5 billion shillings to generate the required money. Now, West Buganda diocese has started fundraising to resume work on the project. The cost has since increased to 13 billion shillings.
Canon Muwanguzi says the Electoral College has already come up with the two names which they are going to submit to the Chancellor of West Buganda Diocese before they are presented to the House of Bishops for a final decision to be made on June 1, 2016. The concentration of the new Bishop is planned for August 28.
Bishop Makumbi lost the battle to throat cancer on Sunday at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Mulago, where he had been admitted for close to two weeks. His remains arrived at his home in Kako last evening.
The archbishop of the Church of Uganda Stanley Ntagali has advised that the burial of the late Bishop be delayed until after the June 3rd martyrs day celebrations, a message delivered to mourners by Canon Fred Kayondo, the Dean of West Buganda Diocese shows.
Launched in 2011 by West Buganda Diocese, the plaza on Edward Avenue Masaka, the six-storied structure is planned to have a banking complex, shopping mall, rentable office space, a modern hotel and a parking yard. The commercial set up would ideally widen the tax base for the church.
The priest, Julius Ssemaganda, the assistant parish priest of Buzza Church of Uganda in Kyarulangira Sub County was arrested last month and remanded at Rakai prison after 18 male pupils of Buzza Church of Uganda Primary School pinned him for sodomising them. The victims aged between 12 and 14.
A teacher who declined to be named for fear of reprisal from the school administration supports the students. He claims that although, students are in the boarding section are entitled to a special meal on public holidays, the Head teacher blocked the release of funds.
The Retired assistant Bishop of Kampala, Zac Niringire believes such donations have silenced religious leaders and affected their will to speak the truth on ongoing corruption scandals and rights abuses in the country. But Bishop Makumbi says they can\'t be compromised.
Following unsuccessful attempts to raise money from alternative sources, the diocese sold off Ntusi Diocesan Ranch at about 2.5 billion shillings to generate the required funds.
