Julius [Lukyamuzi] had a shattered childhood after his parents separated in mid 1990s. He lived his early years in destitution with his mother near Bwebajja on Entebbe Road. After his Primary Seven education, he came to the city in 1995 in search of employment. His story reveals how he found home on the streets, teamed up with street gangs for survival.

...His story is a fusion of sadness, exploitation and betrayal inflicted on him by people who were supposed to protect and counsel him. It's also a glaring exposure of the emptiness of some of the emerging evangelical churches of pseudo-puritans who have turned into Devil's disciples.

What follows is an account of how Lukyamuzi became a Christian and entered the household of Grace Kitaka, a male pastor who adopted him as son. However, Lukyamuzi also alleges that Kitaka forced him, and other boys, to endure years of extensive sexual abuse. Kitaka was finally arrested last year, but so far he "has never been taken to court". Lukyamuzi accuses Namutebi of colluding with the abuse:

In 1997, we boys who lived at Kitaka's home told Pastor Imelda Namutebi that Kitaka was a gay. She said, "He is not, it can't be, never talk about a man of God, never touch my anointed one..." She got a Bible and started counselling us. But we told her we were going to tell the whole world what this guy was doing.

She pleaded saying if we did, the church would split. She asked us what we wanted, we said we wanted to leave Kitaka. She told us to be patient and warned that if I told my mum, I would see what would happened to me.

It appears that the supernatural empowerment from God that allowed Hinn to see Namutebi surrounded by "power" apparently didn't give him any clue about this.

Namutebi has been a controversial figure for some time: in 2003 she married a man who had left his family to be with her, and she discouraged critical reports in the bluntest way:

Church members attacked [journalist Nicholas] Kajoba when he tried to take a picture of Namutebi preaching. Namutebi encouraged the perpetrators, saying the journalist deserved the beating for his paper's negative stories about her, sources at New Vision said. The church members took Kajoba's notebook and film. The journalist was later treated at a Kampala hospital for a head injury.

She is also known for her predictably lavish lifestyle; Ugandan commentator Ernest Bazanye notes that

Pastor Imelda owns a Hummer H2, as bright and yellow as the woman herself, that is a perpetual nuisance to other users of Kampala's narrower roads. When the monstrosity is bearing down on them, halogen headlamps searing white into their optic centre as they clamour to swerve onto the pavement and out of the way, I am sure motorists all find themselves thinking, "Behold the blessings the Lord doth visit upon his faithful servants."

Meanwhile, the allegations against Kitaka have now spurred his fellow evangelists into action:

"The National fellowship of Born-again Pentecostal Churches of Uganda has set up its own committee to investigate the allegations against Kitaka," the chairperson, Pastor Alex Mitala, announced yesterday.

However, Uganda is notoriously homophobic, and the committee's perspective reflects this:

..."We warn all born-again Christians against all forms of sexual perversion and we state that sodomy has never been and will never be acceptable in the balokole (born again) community. And it is illegal under the laws of Uganda." Mitala applauded Kitaka for resigning, saying the move would promote integrity in their churches.

Yes, the problem is that Kitaka is accused of engaging in gay sex, not that he's allegedly a pedophile rapist - and any findings against him are more likely to fuel a panic about "gays" rather than to encourage reflection on how unaccountable power-structures allow sexual predators free rein.