A car fit for a pastor

The revelation last week that a Pentecostal pastor may have stolen a car has added a new twist to what we can expect from our clerics. From defilement to fraud, the allegations have come fast and furious, and there are hints that we will be entertained. Mr William Muwanguzi, the Kampala pastor who allegedly stole a Land Cruiser, is a disturbingly flamboyant man who has promoted himself as Kiwedde, his crude way of saying he has found El Dorado--that things will never be the same again. So when a colleague, reacting to Mr Muwanguzi's arrest, opined that God's will had been done with the pastor, the cynicism was understandable. But the problem is that Mr Muwanguzi's real chickens came home to roost in a way that even he would not have prophesied. And it is difficult to imagine that many Ugandans felt sorry for him.