Delivered From The Powers Of Darkness

By Denis Jjuuko
He looks the same old Mugisha, only that this time he is not wearing any jewellery. He is dressed in a greenish pair of jeans with a matching shirt. He wears a black flat cap and leather sandals.
He extends his hands to greet me with the words “Praise the Lord.” He cannot talk to me immediately. He has to see his boss.
Soon after his meeting, Mugisha calls me up to his office. He is seated in a black swivel chair facing a computer and talking to somebody on phone in a very low tone. He beckons me to a chair next to him.
Last Sunday, Roger Mugisha formerly known as “The Shadow,” said that he had got saved at Kasanga Miracle Centre.
He denounced all his secular antics including the sleazy dances his all-girl dance troupe, The Shadow’s Angels engaged in. The girls, popular for their extremely skimpy pair of ‘Patra’ shorts that revealed their light thighs and bums, had previously earned themselves a bashing from moralists.
Mugisha looks at me for a few seconds and finally closes his eyes. “Is he possessed with some spirits?” I wonder.
After five minutes, he opens his eyes and whispers to me: “Sorry, give me a few seconds.”
He closes his eyes again. I see the movement of his lips –– an indication that he is praying. He does this for about three minutes.
“I have been consulting God. He has allowed me to talk to you. But let this be very clear. You aren’t talking to me alone. If you distort this information, it is up to you, God is watching us,” he warns.
“He is the one who holds the sun up there so that it doesn’t burn us to death.”
Mugisha then starts sharing his testimony.
“Something happened in the past weeks but I don’t know the exact day,” he starts. “I was awake in my bedroom shortly after midnight when something strange happened to me. I tried to resist it but I failed,” he reveals, then closes his eyes again.
“I ask him who he was and he said he was God. I then realised his presence,” he recalls in his usual deep warm voice.
He explains that God did not however come with a lot of visual powers like extremely bright lights or anything. “There was nothing I could see with my naked eyes.”
“I have a small TV in my bedroom. God told me to switch it on. When I did, I found myself watching LTV. Benny Hinn preached first then Pastor Robert Kayanja,” he reveals. “I watched the TV and couldn’t sleep until after 4:00am.”
Mugisha says God told him that he had to take all the people he had misled back to him. “He also told me to ask for forgiveness especially for the people in the area I have terrorised most. That is Kasanga,” he explains.
“We used to perform at Will’s Pub and other places. The girls’ dressing style and the way they performed was the act of the devil.”
Mugisha had trained them to shake their bottoms seductively. Some revelers even wondered how they could manage without the influence of drugs.
He says people should pay attention to what they wear; clothes, perfumes and jewellery.
“Some are manifestations of the devil. People should first pray before they buy.
He says God did not tell him to go to Kasanga Miracle Centre or any Church. “I didn’t choose to get saved. I am what I am now because of the power of God,” he says holding back tears.
“I was the worst sinner in Kampala. Women and sex were part of my life.
“It is the truth, women and sex were part of The Shadow. By now I would be on phone talking to a woman and asking her when I would meet her. I could talk to women for hours,” he emphasises in a trembling voice as he displays his Nokia mobile phone.
He looks at me and says candidly: “I used to worship the devil. I’ve been the devil’s agent for 10 years. I was the devil’s agent in the music industry,” he reiterates.
“What do you exactly mean by worshipping the devil?” I ask. “This is very scary. I don’t want to go through the details. I don’t want to scare you. Don’t you understand this? I used to worship the devil,” he answers, struggling to remain calm.
“No I don’t,” I respond.
“Okay. I was once a born-again Christian though I come from a catholic family. In 1991, I backslid,” he explains.
“Then in 1993, while in my S4 vacation, I was introduced to worshipping idols surrounded by lit candles. I was just 16-years-old. I’ve been doing this since then, until last week,” he reveals.
He says one of the devil’s agents sweet-talked him on realising he was very interested in earthly assets. But he will not reveal that person.
“What would you then gain from this?”
“I used to worship them because I was seeking certain powers,” he answered straightaway.
“Certain powers for what?”
“When you worship them, you are told that you would become famous and make more money. The more famous you become, the more money you make and the money allows you to win so many souls for Satan. And the more souls you win for him, the more money you make,” he explains the devil’s cycle.
He says it is only his former girlfriend Tina who was aware of his devil adoration. Mugisha says his current girlfriend was not aware but she is now.
He says now there is an authority stronger and above the devil.
He says there will be no more Shadow’s Angels
“Why did you force the girls to go to Church with you and testify how they have got saved?”
“This must be made very clear. I didn’t force anybody to get saved. I gave them the message God wanted me to. Even those who left the group are now saved. That shows God’s power,” Mugisha narrates. “There are, however, only two girls who haven’t seen the light yet.”
“When God visited me, I asked him how I would do this. He told me that my assignment was to take the message to the people I misled. He told me he would be on my side.”
“There is a lot of money in the Church Roger. Aren’t you targeting it?” I ask. “I have been making a lot of money with the Shadow’s Angels and again here at Capital FM,” he answers.
“I didn’t make this choice. Starting up a Church isn’t easy. God hasn’t told me that.”
“Money isn’t everything. You don’t need to get saved to make a lot of money. Are the richest people in the world all saved?” he muses. muses.











when he went to work on Monday, he thought he had been.
“But I was welcomed and allowed to work. All this shows the power of God and I think he wants me to talk to his people,” he says.
“I don’t think you will see me in any of those places anymore.”
Will you play secular music again?
“I don’t decide the music to play. The music director selects the music but God takes care of what I say,” he answers.
“Don’t forget that I am at Capital FM because of God’s will.”
As we conclude, Mugisha says the name ‘Shadow’ will take long to fade but will eventually go away.
“Some people think I’m mad and crazy but I am not. Others don’t believe me but I will do what God tells me to do.”
He then prays for me before seeing me off. A new Roger Mugisha reflects in my mind as I take the staircase down. Ends