Pastor Ssenyonga accused of parent neglect

Pastor Jackson Ssenyonga has been accused of parent neglect.  A family in Kituntu, Butambala District is accusing him that he has not helped an aunt who baby sat the pastor.

The immediate family members are now seeking help from well wishers to help them save the situation by treating Mzee Keeti Kitta,  81 years of age who raised Pastor Jackson Ssenyonga from the age of four when his mother late Ritah Nakalema separated with his poligamous father.

” Our Jjajja Kitta is helpless. She is locked out side the small house belonging to a grand relative in Kanaaba for security reasons. She is sick and can’t manage her self. She crawls around like a baby, but it shouldn’t be her to suffer that way having raised our uncle Pastor Ssenyonga,”  one of the relatives told The Drone Media.

When this writer visited the old woman, she was regrating her efforts raising Ssenyonga. She said she is the one who kept all the family tittles until 2006 when the pastor asked her to pass them to him for protection.

” I went with Ssalongo Kityo one of the successor and owner, ” she says. Kitta lives a miserable life and some members now seek any well wisher to help her in any possible way. A neighbor said that some times she behaves as if possessed crawling around the village pathes when left alone.

Another relative to both Ssenyonga and Kitta, Ssaalongo Kityo Paul Katetemera, 40, said the whole family is now stuck.

He said he withessed his grandmother Mzee Kitta hand over their tittles and regrets why he didn’t smell a rat by then.

He said the land tittles of family land with a collapsing house where he was born in Kituntu, Butambala, and another tittle in Lukaya to which Kityo is the heir and a third one around Lukaya also, were all wrongly confiscated by Pastor Ssenyonga.

” If probably we had access to our property we wouldn’t be grassing. Mind you people are encroaching on our land, electricity transmission and telephone mast contractors wanted to pay us but the man has kept our tittles maliciously,” said Ssaalongo Kityo who rides an old Boda Boda bicycle at Katwe.

He said he is now trying to use a lawyer to atleast get his tittles although Ssenyonga is still adamant.

” I was 13 years when I succeeded my late father and a brother to Ssenyonga, now I am 40 years and a Ssaalongo, but the pastor has illegally kept my own land tittles. The other tittle of the family in Kituntu which formerly belonged to Ssenyonga’s father was inherited by another grandson Jonathan Kyeyune, who is a mature adult but still the pastor is withholding the tittle,” narrated Kityo.

 

Another elder brother Noah Katabalwa, who was originally Fred Ssenyonga, but dropped the name over disappointment by the pastor; he resorted to riding a bicycle Boda Boda around Ovino Mall to get a destitute’s living after Ssenyonga refused to push-start him.

” I recount how we suffered together in Katwe, Juuko Zone with my brother before he became a pastor. Some white man took me to Russia to train in computers, but I didn’t find a job.

Katabalwa said he now lives a loner life with no wife or children in a rented room in Masanafu and wonders why people say Pastor Ssenyonga is generous! “when he can’t help his own people,” he chipped.

But when contacted recently, Pastor Ssenyonga told the press that it’s true he has the family tittles for a purpose. He said those relatives who want them should follow proper family channel other than legal.
He said he fears others want to start selling that land.

On the other accusations of neglecting his own people, his phone went unanswered when contacted again.

Mr Katabalwa on his bicycle, Mzee Ketti Kitta who raised Ssenyonga and the dilapidated house where Ssenyonga was born and grew.