opinion 2 May 2026 Daily Monitor (Uganda)
Will God Punish Authorities for Demolishing Makeshift Churches in Uganda?
Allan Tacca critiques the heavy-handed government demolitions of roadside markets, kiosks, and makeshift Pentecostal churches, questioning if divine vengeance will strike the officials amid pastors' curses and protests. He dismisses such notions, insisting God remains indifferent to this human affair. Source: https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/columnists/allan-tacca/can-god-avenge-demolished-churches--5440146
Recent government operations to enforce trade order have demolished makeshift roadside markets, kiosks, and homes of the urban poor, leaving many livelihoods in ruins. While small-scale traders suffer quietly, Pentecostal pastors whose churches were razed have voiced disproportionate outrage, including curses invoking divine retribution against the authorities.
One pastor on Dream TV/Impact FM claimed a senior official revealed that rival pastors sometimes instigate such demolitions amid fierce competition for followers. Despite this, colleagues on the show condemned the church destructions.
Tacca, writing as ‘God’s dog,’ recounts a pastor boasting of God’s lethal intervention against security personnel who damaged his car without compensation. He rebukes this witchdoctor-like intimidation, asserting God is unaware and unconcerned by the curses or the ‘trade order’ chaos.
The columnist views the proliferating disorderly churches and congested traders as clashing with a similarly disorganized government—a purely human conflict where divine involvement is absent.
Source: Daily Monitor (Uganda)