According to a fund raising video playing on pastor Jackson Senyonga’s website, his Christian Life Ministry (CLM) and President Museveni’s government have agreed that, “if the ministry constructs a new hospital in Kampala, the government will convey  title to the 75,000 seat stadium known as Mandela National Stadium over to us with all its facilities and acreage” to CLM. While Pastor Senyonga might have reached the said agreement with President Museveni, the stadium capacity claim is totally untrue. The official capacity of the Mandela National Stadium which is reported by president Meseveni’s own ministry of sports is 45,000 seats. And according to Uganda laws, the agreement would be illegal since the Uganda president has no constitutional powers to give away public property, even if he has broken the law in the past. And the Uganda parliament has never passed  a bill to support Pastor Senyonga claims.

Pastor Senyonga’s video also contains other controversial claims which many Ugandans might call outright lies. For example, the narrator tells his innocent American Christian audience that, thanks to their past support and the successes of CLM, “Islam was  over 30% in the past but has now reduced to about 10%”. And one of the graphics they use to support that statement shows and Arab man – clearly not filmed in Uganda and possibly included to tap anti-Arab/Moslem feelings among the audience. On the contrary, data from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics shows that the percentage of Moslems has never been higher than 13% since census taking started in Uganda. That is more than 50 years ago.

You can view Pastor Senyonga’s fundraising video at www.christianlifeministries.org.

In August 2008, the Daily Review of San Francisco, California, reported that Jackson Senyonga, 41, of Uganda was arrested by sheriff’s deputies at Oakland International Airport on suspicion of fondling a 13 year girl seated next to him on an August 16, 2008 flight.  The alleged molestation was said to have occurred on a flight from Denver to Oakland. The Alameda County, California prosecutors said that they had referred the case to the FBI because of jurisdictional issues from being on the plane. The status of the child molestation case against Pastor Senyonga could not be established at the time of writing this report.

Pastor Alex Mitala told journalists on Monday that cases of pastors who indulge in sex with their flock are rampant in Uganda. However, he vouched for Pastor Jackson Ssenyonga, of Christian Life Church Bwaise, over allegations that he molested a 13 year old girl during an airline flight in the USA. Pastor Alex Mitala is the head of the National Fellowship of Born-Again Churches in Uganda.

On August 23, 2008 Buganda Post reported on the arrest of Pastor Jackson Ssenyonga by sheriff’s deputies at Oakland International Airport in California, USA. The alleged molestation occurred on a flight from Denver, Colorado to Oakland, California and the Alameda County, California prosecutors say that they have referred the case to the FBI because of jurisdictional issues from being on the plane.

In defending Ssenyonga, Pastor Mitala told journalists, “”I have known Jackson since he was a boy and his wife Eve since she was a girl. I have never heard of any immoral character in them.” He did not cite any other reasons why it would be impossible for Ssenyonga to have committed the alleged crime. On the contrary, he said that his office constantly receives cases of “pastors in town who go around sleeping with girls everywhere.”