Ugandans advised to pray for their leaders

By Vivian Agaba                

In recent years, Uganda’s media has been awash with stories of some leaders involved in scandals like corruption, abuse of office and bribery.

As a result, some members of the public have resorted to attacking and insulting the leaders verbally especially through social media.

However, Garvin Hunter, a pastor from USA says abusing and fronting such stories in the media is not enough, he says apart from being held accountable, such leaders need to be prayed for.

“For the few days I have been in Uganda, I have noticed that on a daily basis, different media outlets have stories of leaders involved in scandals especially corruption and bribery. The outlets are also full of glitches in society,” said Hunter.

He added: Abusing and insulting them will not change anything. Pray for them so that apart from being held accountable, they can change and lead people according to God’s will. Also pray for society so that all the negative aspects like crimes especially domestic violence, murders can stop,” said Hunter.

Hunter made the call during the International gospel media conference held in Kampala recently under the theme: What is the media position in championing kingdom affairs?’

Robby Muhumuza, a communications consultant asked media owners, managers and journalists to be cautious in what they publish and broadcast because they are the pillars of society and can influence morals, values of the society.

Nicholas Kisakye, pastor at Return to Zion ministries said the media should be led by responsibility in a way that journalists write and broadcast information which is well researched, written and documented based on truth other than writing stories based on lies with an aim of making money and thus selling people’s ‘souls with money.

Caroleanne Philips, an International evangelist from USA asked the media to be truthful in what they report so as to create positive impact in society.

“Report with integrity in your work. What you report has power and how you report will influence society either positively or negatively,” said Philips.

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