'Serulanda leader resurrects the dead'
Dec 10, 2008
THE Serulanda spiritual leader, Bambi Baaba, has supernatural powers to resurrect the dead, a member of the sect has said.
By Darious Magara
THE Serulanda spiritual leader, Bambi Baaba, has supernatural powers to resurrect the dead, a member of the sect has said.
Benny Nakaggwa, 70 and former Miss Uganda (1962), told the Seluranda/Ssesamirembe probe commission on Tuesday that Bambi resurrected four people, including her husband.
She said her husband, Leonard Basudde, first died in 1964 and was resurrected after two days at Mulago Hospital when Bambi prayed for him.
Her husband again died in 1969. He had been appointed Ugandan ambassador to West Germany at the time of his death.
“He also resurrected Bigomero, who is still alive,†Nakaggwa added.
She said two other people in Rakai district had also been resurrected.
Nakaggwa, who was dressed in a red gomesi, was appearing before the commission at the former Prisons Mess on Buganda Road in Kampala.
The commission, chaired by Prof. Nelson Sewankambo, was constituted by President Yoweri Museveni to investigate activities of the Serulanda Spiritual Foundation and a proposed free trade zone in Rakai district.
She said should the Government grant them permission to start the free trade zone, the sect should be the one to manage it.
“We have invested a lot in this project and when the Government finally licenses it, we have the capacity to run it,†she said.
Nakaggwa said she is now a resident of Busega in Kampala, but remains a committed member of the religious sect, where she is said to have donated property worth sh12m.
Nakaggwa stunned the audience when she said she had signed a document asking to be embalmed when she dies.
She said the sect was not the first institution in the world to preserve bodies, saying it is being done in Rome, Egypt and in Canterbury, UK. Being preserved enables one to be remembered for many years, Nakaggwa added.
THE Serulanda spiritual leader, Bambi Baaba, has supernatural powers to resurrect the dead, a member of the sect has said.
Benny Nakaggwa, 70 and former Miss Uganda (1962), told the Seluranda/Ssesamirembe probe commission on Tuesday that Bambi resurrected four people, including her husband.
She said her husband, Leonard Basudde, first died in 1964 and was resurrected after two days at Mulago Hospital when Bambi prayed for him.
Her husband again died in 1969. He had been appointed Ugandan ambassador to West Germany at the time of his death.
“He also resurrected Bigomero, who is still alive,†Nakaggwa added.
She said two other people in Rakai district had also been resurrected.
Nakaggwa, who was dressed in a red gomesi, was appearing before the commission at the former Prisons Mess on Buganda Road in Kampala.
The commission, chaired by Prof. Nelson Sewankambo, was constituted by President Yoweri Museveni to investigate activities of the Serulanda Spiritual Foundation and a proposed free trade zone in Rakai district.
She said should the Government grant them permission to start the free trade zone, the sect should be the one to manage it.
“We have invested a lot in this project and when the Government finally licenses it, we have the capacity to run it,†she said.
Nakaggwa said she is now a resident of Busega in Kampala, but remains a committed member of the religious sect, where she is said to have donated property worth sh12m.
Nakaggwa stunned the audience when she said she had signed a document asking to be embalmed when she dies.
She said the sect was not the first institution in the world to preserve bodies, saying it is being done in Rome, Egypt and in Canterbury, UK. Being preserved enables one to be remembered for many years, Nakaggwa added.