Court has ordered embattled Pastor Augustine Yiga of Revival Church in Kawala to pay Shs2.5m to cater for medical bills of Brenda Nalubega (picture), a woman who accused him of child neglect and infecting her with HIV. (Click here to read the story).
High Court judge Emmanuel Baguma made the ruling on Friday, after Nalubega’s lawyer Kennedy Lule, asking for Shs6m because his client needed urgent medical attention.
The second hearing of the case in which she accuses the pastor of child neglect was adjourned due to poor health of the plaintiff. Lule made a plea to the judge to order Yiga to pay his client Shs6m so that she could access appropriate treatment, which Yiga’s lawyer Faiza Mulalira opposed.
Mulalira, first asked the judge to order the journalists out of court for a closed session, which the judge declined and she went ahead to plead for his client (Yiga) to be allowed pay a reduced amount. The judge ruled that Yiga pays Shs2.5m instead of the proposed Shs6m.
The embattled Pastor Yiga aka Abizayo.
Family, relatives and well-wishers were able to raise funds amounting to Shs1m and promised to remit the balance on
Monday, an offer the judge accepted. Baguma set November 30 as the date for the next hearing.
