Uganda, March 27 -- A Pentecostal pastor who failed to heed the wisdom in the Book of Proverbs was forced to read from Lamentations after he was detained over noise pollution.

"Whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from troubles," counsels Proverbs 21:23, but it is a lesson Pastor James Bisoboka, 49, learned the hard way after being picked up on Monday by officers from the Environment Protection Police Unit, and those from the National Environment Management Authority (Nema).

Pastor Bisoboka of the Honnest Alliance Ministries Church International first broke police radio silence in July 2023 when he was questioned over the level of noise from his church in Butabika, a Kampala City suburb. He was granted police bond as inves...