Bugingo’s response when Susan Makula asked if he regrets marrying her

Bugingo replied: "Me?"

Makula went on: "Yes!"

Bugingo said: "Not at all. I can't. [Makula shows off a toothy smile]. I can't regret it."

Makula sought reaffirmation as the couple talked to media personality Isaac Daniel Katende, also known as Kasuku, who was filming content for his YouTube channel.

It's ahead of this interview that Kasuku recorded a video showing the couple's new fancy house in Namayumba, a settlement in Wakiso District.

Bugingo told Makula that now that they have a house together, it shows that their bond is growing stronger.

Pastor Bugingo was recently filmed preaching against wedding vows.

"Aren't you the ones who deceive yourselves during weddings? There is nowhere it's written that it's death that will separate you. Do you wed to die? Do you wed because you want to die? I asked for that verse and I've never seen it. From the beginning to the end, [someone should come and show me where it's written that a marriage should end only after a partner dies]," he said as part of the congregation clapped.

"Things may refuse. And it's not death that separates you. I've stopped there. Keep thinking about it."

Bugingo, who heads the House of Prayer Ministries International, said it's after death that some people regret staying in some relationships because of the abusiveness they endured.

He said some people fear ending relationships because they are under family and societal pressure.

"People [suffer in marriages and refuse to separate] because they are worried about public opinion, yet the public opinion is not from the Bible, but hell. No verse in the Bible says one should die so the other can move into a new relationship... So, when they die at the same time, does that mean they sinned?” he said.

In the King James Version of the Bible, Romans 7:2 reads: “For the woman which hath a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.”

Pastor Bugingo was married to Teddy Naluswa until his romance with Makula went public in 2019.

In May 2019, Bugingo and Nasulwa’s love story turned sour when the former publicly accused the latter of wanting to kill him.

He also accused her of conspiring to steal his church land, citing it among the reasons he could no longer stay with her. He demanded a divorce.

Nasulwa denied the allegations and opposed the divorce petition stating church marriage is meant to last forever and that her husband had no valid issues for divorcing her.