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Speaking "ill" about the dead: Is it the new normal we need to embrace?

 Speaking "ill" about the dead: Is it the new normal we need to embrace

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By Moses Muwulya

About five years ago, several prominent people in Uganda have died. We have witnessed people coming up,especiallyu on social media to talk ill about them. "How they thought they treated them as if they will never leave the world"; and so forth. A prominent radio personality, whose name I am afraid to mention, was a victim of this new normal: '"Talking ill about the dead", which in the past was never seen. People, in their eulogies could only talk about the good deeds of the deceased. Should they have nothing to credit them for, which is literally impossible, one would at least forge them.
However, slowly but surely, this norm seems to be phasing away. The utterances made by Pastor Jackson Ssenyonga about Pastor Yiga,who went to be with his creator, yesterday continue to pave way for exit of this norm.
Before I approach pastor Senyonga divinely, I want to pose a couple of questions. Is this the new normal we need to embrace and stop being surprised when the deceased are talked about in that manner, which may probably be true?
To us who are still breathing, what do we learn from such scenes, doing the absolute truth, always, and is this realistic as every one naturally has them own weaknesses?
Back to Pastor Ssenyonga, In the video I saw on Uncut,an entertainment show on NBS TV, you said a lot about Pastor Yiga. Accusing him of his shepherd style and went ahead to announce what he succumbed to. But whether true on not,I want to tell you that basing on the Book of Ezekiel 33:1-7 which reads as thus: " The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, 3 and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people, 4 then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head. 5 Since they heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, their blood will be on their own head. If they had heeded the warning, they would have saved themselves. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone’s life, that person’s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.’' you,too,share a punishment over the so called Yiga's because you knew it was wrong and never warned him. And I had him in one of the earlier interviews done on him when he was still alive, that: "Those who blame him none of them went ahead to sit him down and talk to him"
REST IN PEACE PASTOR YIGA


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