Bishop-elect cleared on illegitimate children
A DNA test has confirmed that the children a woman claimed were fathered by the bishop-elect of Kinkiizi Anglican diocese are not his. Rev. Can. Bernard Bagaba was elected the second bishop of Kinkiizi diocese last year by the House of Bishops sitting in Gulu.
By Henry Mukasa
A DNA test has confirmed that the children a woman claimed were fathered by the bishop-elect of Kinkiizi Anglican diocese are not his.
Rev. Can. Bernard Bagaba was elected the second bishop of Kinkiizi diocese last year by the House of Bishops sitting in Gulu but his consecration was halted after a group of Christians accused him of being involved in dubious acts during his term of office as diocesan secretary.
A group of people under the Leadership Concern Fellowship petitioned Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi to cancel Bagaba’s consecration, alleging that he had children outside wedlock and had failed to look after them.
Orombi then postponed his enthronement from May 9 to an unspecified date in June.
The DNA results conducted in Bellville, South Africa by Unistel Medical Laboratories and issued on May 24 state that none of the children belongs to Bagaba.
The medical centre said it received blood samples of Bagaba, Annet Tugumisirize, 31, and two children, Ishmel Tumwebaze, 5, and Moreen Kirabo, 2, on April 28.
“According to the results, it can be stated with 100% certainty that Bagaba is not the biological father of Tumwebaze and Kirabo,†Unistel boss Munro Peter Marx said.
He explained that the results were interpreted in terms of the rules governing inheritance, whereby 50% of genetic material is inherited from the biological father.
Bagaba told the Christians in Kambuga town last month that he was legally elected and was the right person to become the bishop of Kinkiizi.
A DNA test has confirmed that the children a woman claimed were fathered by the bishop-elect of Kinkiizi Anglican diocese are not his.
Rev. Can. Bernard Bagaba was elected the second bishop of Kinkiizi diocese last year by the House of Bishops sitting in Gulu but his consecration was halted after a group of Christians accused him of being involved in dubious acts during his term of office as diocesan secretary.
A group of people under the Leadership Concern Fellowship petitioned Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi to cancel Bagaba’s consecration, alleging that he had children outside wedlock and had failed to look after them.
Orombi then postponed his enthronement from May 9 to an unspecified date in June.
The DNA results conducted in Bellville, South Africa by Unistel Medical Laboratories and issued on May 24 state that none of the children belongs to Bagaba.
The medical centre said it received blood samples of Bagaba, Annet Tugumisirize, 31, and two children, Ishmel Tumwebaze, 5, and Moreen Kirabo, 2, on April 28.
“According to the results, it can be stated with 100% certainty that Bagaba is not the biological father of Tumwebaze and Kirabo,†Unistel boss Munro Peter Marx said.
He explained that the results were interpreted in terms of the rules governing inheritance, whereby 50% of genetic material is inherited from the biological father.
Bagaba told the Christians in Kambuga town last month that he was legally elected and was the right person to become the bishop of Kinkiizi.