Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa has handed over a church he has constructed for Catholics in Mitooma for a whooping shs2.7 billion.
The church, named St.Charles Lwanga was on Sunday handed over to the locals in Kagarama.
handed over St Charles Lwanga Church to Kigarama parishioners in Mitooma District
Tayebwa said despite criticism in the public over the decision to construct a church at Shs2.7 billion and questions swirling over the sources of funds used to construct the church, most of the money was raised from his friends from the business community.
He revealed that in one meeting that lasted about 30minutes, Shs1.7 billion was raised for the construction of the church by his friends.
“You don’t see glasses, and you say these people are in fundraisings, we have the resources to complete it. Even tomorrow, the contractors are continuing. But we prematurely did this because we had to celebrate Mzee,”Tayebwa said.
Speaker Anita Among hailed her deputy for the construction of the church.
“We want to thank God that today we are here, out of an idea that was conceived when we sat in Munyonyo 8 or 10 of us and now the church is here. We are very proud of you and Mama for giving us a very brilliant, young and down to earth person in the name of Tayebwa. We also want to thank the people of Mitooma for giving us a leader in Thomas Tayebwa. He is a very disciplined leader,”Among said.
“He(Thomas Tayebwa) is one Deputy Speaker who knows what his role is, he is so down to earth and very social. We want to thank you people of Mitooma and we want to request you, that kindly bring back Tayebwa to Parliament. I only have one term to serve, when I finish serving my term, I give to Tayebwa to continue because you don’t need to cling on power .I have one term to go, then I hand it over to him.”
