The acting Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Katumba Wamala, has instructed the CID and Special Branch departments to investigate the new religion whose members worship fire, rocks and walk on crushed ice.
Katumba told The New Vision on Monday, "I told CID and Special Branch to find out more about that religion and implications it could have. After that we can tell if they are dangerous or not."
This comes in the wake of rife speculation about the motives of the religion whose members, it is reported, include ministers of the Buganda Kingdom.
About a fortnight ago, followers of the little known religion held a colourful festival at Busabala landing site. The Buganda ministers Kayiira Gajule, in-charge of culture and Sewava Serubiri for community development, attended it.
The religion also embraces Jesus Christ, reports said last week.
The Central Regional Police Commander, Mr. Chris Bakesiima, said the leader of the religion, a traditional healer identified only as Ndawula and other members had asked for permission to transfer from Kakiri to Busabala where they said they were to hold a cultural festival.
Festival organisers reportedly never told the Police they would travel with more than 100 vehicles packed with people going for this festival. But the Police managed to provide them with traffic guidance.
Bakesiima said, "In future we might not deal with them." He said, "Initially we were not aware." He said he only learnt the rest about their activities from the media. "We were surprised to learn that they were a religious community yet they had told us that they are just a cultural organisation," he said.
Last year a little known cult, The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, burnt more than 350 of its followers in Kanungu, Rukungiri.