An emerging bizarre underwater worshipping in Uganda by people seeking wealth has become cause of concern for Muslim leader (Mufti) Sheikh Ramadhan Mubajje, who is asking the government to immediately probe the act.
The concern follows reports that people seeking to get rich overnight are made to go under water of lakes and rivers in East Africa, with Tanzania`s Lake Tanganyika being notably cited.
Unconfirmed reports detail that several wealth and fortune seekers in Uganda are led to undertake the risk after visiting shrines of traditional doctors, who ask for costly demands including human sacrifices.
Mufti Mubajje told PANA in an interview Sunday that the new craze of worshipping underwater to get wealth is getting serious and needs the government`s immediate intervention.
He warned that Uganda could witness massive killings, disappearances of relatives, ritual murders, particularly child sacrifice and kidnappings, if the government failed to come to the citizens` rescue.
"This is how the infamous Joseph Kibwetere cult in Kanungu District (western Uganda) started. By the time the government learnt of it many people had died," Mubajje said in reference to the mass suicide of over 450 Kibwetere`s followers who set themselves ablaze in a church four years ago.
"Going underwater is not the best way to get wealth. It`s devilish and must stopped," he observed.
Asked whether his calls to ban it were not an infringement on other people`s constitutional right, he retorts that "although the Constitution of Uganda grants freedom of worship, the government should stop this. This is not the type of democracy the government is supposed to promote".