Who is Prophet Samuel Kakande? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Margaret Nantongo, Loyce Kakande, Yeboah and Obiri, Margaret Emily Pendeza, Citia, the early life and education of a Ugandan spiritual leader, self-proclaimed prophet, farmer and businessman.
Samuel Kakande is a Ugandan spiritual leader, self-proclaimed prophet, farmer and businessman.
He is the senior pastor of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, found in Mulago Kubiri, Kampala.
He has a chain of churches, located in different regions, and has mentored several pastors like Brother Ronnie Makabai of ETM Church International among others.
Kakande is popularly known for his miracle rice (Holy rice) that he introduced at his church at a cost of Ugandan shillings 50,000/=.
He also gives people holy living water that is believed to have healing powers.
Net Worth
Prophet Samuel Kakande has a net worth of over 1.75 million US Dollars as of 2024.
He is the richest pastor in Uganda and the founder of Kakande Ministries.
Prophet Kakande benefits from farming and mining valuables such as gold and diamonds. He owns the newest models of Jeeps and other expensive cars.
He spends a portion of his net worth on church-related activities and charitable acts giving to sick people and orphans in Kampala and the surrounding areas.
Early Life and Education
Prophet Samuel Kakande was born in Central Uganda in 1969. He is a Muganda by tribe and grew up in Buganda.
He was raised in a Christian home and received his education in Ugandan schools. Later on, he relocated to Tanzania, where he first worked as a carpenter before becoming a salesperson.
After developing an interest in spirituality and religion, Kakande started going to different churches and religious gatherings.
Marriages / Relationships
Prophet Samuel Kakande has been involved in five relationships despite being a pastor.
He first got married to Loyce Kakande in 1988 and they had two children together; Yeboah and Obiri.
As prophets and prophets, they founded the Mulago church together after inheriting Yeboah’s dubious abilities.
They later split over witchcraft accusations that surrounded the death of Margaret Nantongo, a city businesswoman who was said to have been in a relationship with Kakande.
In 1997, Kakande got married to a Congolese woman, Margaret Emily Pendeza at Culte Francophone Cathedral, Butembo, Bunia in the DRC.
Margaret failed to conceive for Kakande and accused Kakande instead of firing blanks. When Kakande tried to have a relationship with Margaret’s younger sister with whom they lived in Muyenga to get children, Margaret fled from him.
In 2007, Kakande married a Rwandan woman in a lavish wedding held in Rwanda. At their wedding, Kakande took 10 Friesian cows on top of Shs170M to meet his flashy bride price. However, they soon separated.
And in 2009, Kakande married a Filipino businesswoman, Citia in a lavish wedding held in Manila City, the Capital of the Philippines.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Prophet Samuel Kakande took over leadership of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Uganda from a Ghanaian, Prophet John Obiri Yeboah who founded the church in 1978.
Formerly known as the Holy Church of Christ “New Chapter”, Prophet Kakande took over leadership in the early 2000s.
The church quickly gained a following, with many people drawn to Kakande’s claims of healing and performing miracles.
His ability to draw sizable crowds to his services and his captivating preaching style helped him gain notoriety.
In addition, Kakande engages in commercial farming, cultivating fish, rice, and maize, among other crops.
Philanthropy Works
Prophet Samuel Kakande has carried out several humanitarian and philanthropic endeavours, such as constructing schools and helping the underprivileged.
Through his business, Aqua World, Prophet Kakande gave three tons of maize flour to the poor in Mpigi District during the COVID-19 shutdown.
The district chairperson, Peter Clever Mutuluza, and the local RDC, Rose Byabasaija, accepted the donation together with ten million shillings at the district offices.
The donation was the first relief support to the district task force since the lockdown was announced in March 2020, which had lasted for weeks.
Achievements and Awards
Prophet Samuel Kakande is a Ugandan Senior pastor and head of one of the biggest spiritual establishments in Uganda, Synagogue Church of all Nations Kampala Uganda.
In Uganda, he is well-known for working miracles and curing patients of various illnesses during his sessions.
In August 2020, Exceptional Awards nominated Pastor Samuel Kakande as the first nominee for the Lifetime Service Award. This was courtesy of him serving God’s People.
Controversies
Prophet Kakande’s teachings and practices have been the subject of controversy for a long time now.
The Ugandan authorities accused him in 2009 of favouring faith healing above medical care, which resulted in multiple fatalities.
After that, he was taken into custody and charged with manslaughter; however, the accusations were eventually dismissed.
Kakande has also been charged with financial misbehaviour and taking advantage of weaker individuals.
Prophet Samuel Kakande has received criticism from other pastors on multiple times for his amazing miracles. They allege that he is a phoney prophet and a worshipper of the devil.
One of them, Pastor Jackson Senyonga of Christian Life Church Bwaise claimed that Christians who fellowship in churches like that of Kakande, Pr. Elvis Mbonye, Augustine Yiga, Bro Ronnie Makabai and Aloysius Bugingo among others, sold their souls to the devil.
However, in response, Kakande says his Ministry’s theme, is to try to take people out of poverty and other social-economic issues.
Pastor Solomon Male of Arising for Christ also accused Kakande of evil practices in the church claiming it was God’s mighty powers.
Male claimed he witnessed a lot of evils committed in the name of Jesus of Prophet Obiri Yeboah the late. He accused Prophet Kakande of performing miracles and tormenting his followers using Obiri’s dead spirit.
He also confessed to witnessing marriages and families being torn apart and healthy people manipulated into relationships with known AIDs sufferers whom Kakande claimed to have prayed for and healed in the name of Jesus.
He claimed Prophet Kakande buys off people and ferries them to the church to give false testimonies and fake miracles at a fee with some earning up to over 500,000 for their dramatic acts.
Sam Kakande, son of Prophet Samuel Kakande, rebuked his Dad and joined the Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA), saying he could no longer live a life of lies, stage-managed Miracles, witchcraft and endless evil sacrifices.
Sam Kakande confessed that he fears being sacrificed which is why he is joining the SDA church where they don’t preach riches, luck and fortune.
Pastor Samuel Kakande faced the parliamentary committee on Natural Resources for illegal sand mining done by his company Aqua World Uganda Limited in Lwera wetland in Kalungu and Mpigi districts.
The activity was said to be affecting the environment negatively and his land titles were cancelled in 2018.
Prophet Samuel Kakande is still a contentious figure in Uganda and elsewhere, with views on him split between those who consider him to be a charlatan and a threat to public health and those who see him as a spiritual leader and healer.
Prophet Kakande was taken to a mental health facility in 2017 after becoming insane. It was said that Kakande’s all-powerful, demonic snake’s unexplained death caused him to suffer from mental sickness.
It was claimed that the snake was his God who offered him powers to manipulate followers.
The governing organization of Pentecostal churches in Uganda rejected Kakande in 2006 because he was unable to adhere to the Born-Again code of behaviour.
He is also not answerable to any national religious organization.
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