Rural pastors across the country have complained of being sidelined in government programmes and want to meet President Museveni.
Under their umbrella Truth Defenders of Rural Area Pastors (TDRAP), the priests claim the Kampala-based prominent pastors who usually meet the President push for individual interests and care less about the rural flock.
Pastor Nsereko, who also heads God’s Plan International Ministries-Luweero, further claims that government programmes like Emyooga and Parish Development Model (PDM ), Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme, and Youth Livelihood Programme have not benefited Christians in their churches because the implementers claim they work directly with senior pastors in Kampala.
Apostle Joseph Sserwadda, the presiding Apostle of Born Again Faith Federation Uganda, a body that brings together Born Again Christians in Uganda, and senior pastor at Victory Christian Centre, Ndeeba, declined to respond to concerns of rural pastors.
Apostle William Wanduka, the chief mobiliser of TDRAP, said rural pastors have over the years been ardent mobilisers of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), but many have since given up.
TDRAP, according to Pastor Wanduka, has over 50,000 Born Again Christians in various registered churches across Uganda.
