Former Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kutesa has been a subject of online backlash following the commissioning of a church in his native Sembabule that was launched by President Museveni.
While speaking at the event, Kutesa informed the congregation that the reason he chose to fund the building of the church was his ordeal that left him bedridden in German for six months.
"In November 2022, I was diagnosed with throat cancer. I spent six months in Germany undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy, by God’s grace, I recovered. After surviving that difficult experience, I made a promise to build a church for God in His honor," Kutesa revealed.
This has since left different Ugandans on social media questioning the priority with many implying that a hospital or cancer screening centre would have sufficed, rather than the church.
One X user named Shafi Adams posted, "Sam Kutesa was treated in the best hospitals of Germany, but after survival he built a church to empower his people back home in Uganda instead of a hospital..."
Another one named Alex Kakande posted, "It's rumoured that Sam Kutesa is one of the richest men in Uganda. Why can't these be advised to think value? How many cancer patients will be healed by this church?
"If he dedicated even Shs10 billion to cancer research foundation or funding specialists study."
Other social media users referred to an British tourist Samuel Leeds who survived a boat accident on River Nile and was saved by medics in Jinja.
He was later to come back, and build a major ward worth Shs2 billion.
Kutesa has been an influential figure in the ruling National Resistance Movement government, serving as a cabinet minister for several years.
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