Mystery as Bushiri's church is deregistered

Bushiri is reportedly due to visit Botswana next month PIC: Keoagile Bonang
Bushiri is reportedly due to visit Botswana next month PIC: Keoagile Bonang

The Botswana government has allegedly once again moved against Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church, mysteriously axing the registration of its local branch, Mmegi has learnt.

The reasons for the church’s de-registration are yet unknown but according the Registrar of Societies Act, a society can be deregistered under circumstances where it has failed to submit its returns annually after being operational for a year, has become a branch of, or affiliated to or connected with, any organisation or group of a political nature established outside Botswana and/or has changed its objectives or pursues objectives other than its declared ones without seeking consent from the Registrar.

Apparentlym the church was informed of the decision on July 25, 2019 after a continuous alleged failing to adhere to rules and regulations dating back to 2016. Bushiri’s church has in the past been entangled in a bitter war with the government, and was at some point, de-registered for amongst other things, not submitting audited financial results for two financial years and internal fighting by its leaders. The battle ended at the court, but the Registrar of Societies later re-registered the church in 2018.

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