A criminal pastor who broke out of a prison while serving a 4-year-term has been rearrested after he escaped previously.
Pastor William Paul Muwanguzi, famously known as Kiwedde
Uganda's self-declared born-again Pastor William Paul Muwanguzi,
famously known as Kiwedde has been extradited from Zimbabwe, a year
after he escaped from prison, DailyMonitor reports.
His arrest was confirmed by Mr Asan Kasingye, the director of International Police directorate in Uganda.
Kiwedde's was arrested after he escaped from Mutukula Government
Prison in Rakai District while serving his four-year jail sentence.
The report further reported that the Pastor Kiwedde was in 2013
arrested from Rakai District, where he was impersonating a Kenyan
Catholic priest who was performing healing prayers and miracles from
which he extorted colossal sums of money from hundreds of unsuspecting
followers.
Kalisizo Grade One magistrate Suzan Awidi then convicted Muwanguzi
and sentenced him to two years in jail over impersonation and an
additional three years on charges of attempted break-out from Kalisizo
prison where he was on remand.
After barely serving two years of his sentence, Muwanguzi in
October last year escaped from Mutukula prison under unclear
circumstances before running into hiding in Zimbabwe through Tanzania.
He escaped a month after he had been relocated from the overcrowded
Masaka Regional Main Prison to Mutukula in Rakai District. Before his
unprecedented escape, he gave the excuse of being sick and was
eventually left behind to clean the ward and took advantage of lax
security at the prison to find a way out of jail.
'After getting reports about his escape from prison
authorities, our partners in the Interpol were put on notice to help us
apprehend him on sight,' says Mr Kasingye.
According a Zimbabwean news agency, the pastor was arrested for
flouting immigration laws and possessing a fake passport in the names of
David Mubiru. He was picked from Zimbabw'es southern state of
Waterfalls where he was operating a Holy Fire Ministries Church along
with a fellow Ugandan.
Mr Maxwell Ogwal the greater Masaka Regional police commander
reveals that police on Wednesday evening received Kiwedde from the
Interpol officers at Entebbe and was accordingly transfered to Kalisiizo
in Rakai District.
He told us Muwanguzi will face charges of prison break,
impersonation, being in possession of a fake passport, on top of having
his earlier prison sentence reviewed.
Pastor Muwanguzi, became famous in Uganda of activities at his
defunct pentecostal church under the auspice of Holy Fire Ministries on
Entebbe road in Kampala where thousands of believers gathered for
miracles. He extorted a lot of money from his followers from which he
accumulated wealth and bought lavish cars he branded with 'Kiwedde' an
expression meaning ‘it is done’.
He has previously faced several charges including terrorism,
illegal possession of firearms and assaulting a police officer on duty.
Police say in 2010, Muwanguzi changed his name to Paul Mwamba and
went in hiding in Kenya where he opened a church in Eldoret which he
operated since 2013.
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