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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The reported shooting in which House of Prayer Ministries Senior Pastor Aloysius Bugingo was injured and his bodyguard killed in a city suburb on Tuesday night, has left the social media awash with conspiracy theories, sympathies, and mockery of the incident.<\/b><\/p>\n

Pastor Bugingo survived after a bullet reportedly hit him in the back while Special Forces Command soldier, Corporal Richard Muhumuza, who was seated on the co-driver\u2019s seat, was allegedly shot more than 10 times.<\/p>\n

Pastor Bugingo managed to drive Cpl Muhumuza to Mulago hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.<\/p>\n

The narrative of how the pastor escaped the shooting and managed to drive the deceased to the hospital has become a subject of debate.<\/p>\n

Pastor Bugingo\u2019s employees said he told them that when the shooter started firing, he heard a voice commanding him to duck below the steering wheel, which he instantly did.<\/p>\n

His employees said it was the voice they believed to be spiritual that helped him dodge the raining bullets.<\/p>\n

Some social media users doubted that the shooter couldn\u2019t have missed him yet he was firing at close range.<\/p>\n

They doubted that the pastor even had a wound in the back as alleged. Other social media activists wondered why Pastor Bugingo didn\u2019t drive straight to the police, but to the hospital.<\/p>\n

The conspiracy theories gained strength when it came to the deceased\u2019s profession and role in the church. The deceased was known to many as an elder in the ministry and a friend to Pastor Bugingo.<\/p>\n

In the first interview to the media hours after the incident, Pastor Bugingo referred to the deceased as an elder in his church. Later security agencies identified him as a soldier, who had been deployed to guard the pastor.<\/p>\n

One former State House employee used his Twitter account to ask why a pastor is protected by a military unit that is only supposed to protect the president and strategic facilities.<\/p>\n

Then a former powerful military general, now retired, responded that the former State House employee was asking a wrong question.<\/p>\n

The retired general said he should have asked who Pastor Bugingo is \u201cbecause the law allows one to be both a pastor and intelligence officer, or a commander.\u201d<\/p>\n

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