A Ugandan Pastor identified as Kinto Dennis of The Empowerment City Church (ECC) has been arrested after a video of him flogging his congregants with cane emerged online.
In the video which went viral online, the pastor was seen standing on the pulpit, holding a long whip and using it on his members who came one after the other.
It was alleged that he flogged his congregants in the East African country where corporal punishment has been outlawed, for incompetence and late-coming.
Pastor Dennis was however, arrested
and charged with 18 counts of common assault, causing bodily harm, assault, promoting sectarianism and human trafficking.
The court heard that the pastor assaulted one Kevin Mugisa for abuse of power of rituals. At the same time, Doreen Aganyira and James Mugisa were respectively kept for extortion purposes and harmful rituals.
Amid his arraignment, some of his congregants on social media were defending him and insisting that he was only “flogging his children”.
On Sunday during the church service, some of the worshippers in his church were seen, singing songs and others cleaning the compound despite Pastor Kintu’s absence.
It was gathered that journalists who came to film the church were apprehended and beaten up before being ordered to delete their footage.
