By Vanessa Kyalimpa
My first job found me ministering in my hometown church in Rushere, western Uganda and what kept me elevated was the integrity inbuilt in me growing from a family strong on Christian values John Musinguzi, the commissioner general of Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) told the students of Uganda Christian University (UCU) during the community worship gathering on March 22.
Musigunzi said that integrity is both what we learn from our parents, the foundation they laid for us when they nurtured us, when they prayed for us and when they took us to church but most importantly integrity is our personal relationship with God.
He- Musinguzi also said there were so many cases where he was offered large sums of money to bribe him when the President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhabura appointed him to work with a team that was verifying the actual strengths of the army during the time of Kony war but he rejected the offers because he was firm on his integrity.
“I’m not where I am now because I’m the most qualified but because every time I fell short of God’s grace, he picked me up, stitched me back together and honored me, the best way to uphold integrity is to own up to your mistakes and apologize,” said Musinguzi.
Musinguzi said that it gives him a lot of joy to meet a young community like the one at UCU seeking ways of how they can uphold integrity and how they can lay a solid foundation for integrity in the market place because the world is in short supply of true core integrity and is yearning for that.
Were Asenath, a student at UCU said that she really enjoyed the summon and learnt that integrity can open up doors for a person, take them places and sustain them in their different capacities.
