The police has arrested a 21-year old youth, John Ngobi after he allegedly set three churches on fire in Kasokoso.

Ngobi according to reports burnt down the churches because churches kept preaching prosperity yet he remains poor. “That his poverty situation motivated him to buy two litres of petrol and one for paraffin which he used to burn church property with the intent to burn the churches completely to ashes. In his minds up to now since he left the fire burning in these respective churches, he still believes that the churches were completely burnt,” reads a police statement

Ngobi, an unemployed resident of Kasokoso Beach, Wakiso district, reportedly handed himself to the authorities after burning the churches in Kasokoso, Kira municipality, Wakiso district.

According to the police, the burnt churches include St Noah Catholic Church Kasokoso, Liberty Church of Christ international and God’s Tour Promising Church.

The police statement the suspect burnt things like clothes, church books, alter wine, curtains and plastic chairs all valued at Shs1.5 million before burning down the churches.

The police says Ngobi is going to be subjected to a test to ascertain whether he is of sound mind.