Erick Finest

Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour. Prolific writer and translator. Redeemed and compassionate early childhood educator.

[Somto Okonkwo @General_Somto]

“Please, I Have an Honest Question. When a Man Marries, He Pays the Bills, Takes Care of His Wife, and Is Expected to Cover All of the Household Expenses. He Even Has to Beg for S€x in the Marriage. On the Other Hand, The Money His Wife Earns Is for Her Personal Use Alone And Not The Family. And Despite Everything a Man Does For His Wife and Children, He Still Does Not Receive the Respect or Submission of His Wife In The Marriage. So My Question Is This: What Is the Benefit of a Man Being Married?”. ~ Relationship Coach Okorie Onwuka.

[YOM🗣️ @ThaBoyYom]

Look for this lil girl for me 🙏🏻

[Ojok @OjokOkot_]

I can’t even begin to imagine the kind of relief my elder, @ac_owinydollo, must be feeling. I sometimes wonder whether he faced the level of criticism he did because people simply expected more from him, unlike his successor, who is barely even a topic of discussion.

Either way, it is refreshing to see him happy, relaxed, and freely mingling with his people as he spearheads #RoccoPaco in Acholi. li.

[Africa First @AfricaFirsts]

By 1879, Uganda 🇺🇬 was the only place in the world where C-section were performed to save both mother and baby.

European observers documented this practice, which used local tools, herbal anesthetics, & antiseptics.

[Sarah BeNice @SarahBenice]

A law lecturer, a former Minister of Ethics and Integrity, and an advocate for equality and women’s empowerment has been sent to prison by a young magistrate who has benefited from her work directly or indirectly, well knowing that she is unwell and is on made-up charges. 

I believe if the tables were turned, 𝐃𝐫 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞 would have done the right thing and dealt with the consequences afterwards.

She was visibly unwell and pleaded with the magistrate to allow her to get medical attention, reminded her of humanity and integrity, which fell on deaf ears.

𝐍𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞. 

As a lawyer for women’s rights, having served her country for decades, wrote articles on advocacy, the pain of seeing her being treated the way she was today is indescribable.

A cofounder of Action for Development. Empowered a generation of women.

Everything about her speaks service to country.

#FreeMiriaMatembe

[Samwise Gamgee @Sambannz]

Miria Matembe has been remanded by Magistrate Sheilla Gloria Atim, She, Matembe once said;
"They are in power, without power but serving power."~Miria Matembe referring to Women in leadership positions/decision making.
#MatembeOnceSaid
#IStandWithMatembe
https://t.co/qPdnij0q7Z

[Tumwesigye Richard @chards_effi]

The archives keep information for us

[NTV UGANDA @ntvuganda]

Scrolling with you. Turning on your world.

[The good gal 💥😍 ❤️🍷 @Pliam_]

Uganda has good health care is now crying to go abroad for further treatment 💀🙌

[Misheline Mutuzo @Lord_Mutuzo]

Before the week gets busy guys; please repost this!🙏🏽🙏🏽

#JusticeForMiriaMatembe
#FreeMiriaMatembe

[Dr. Bireete Sarah @SarahBireete]

📌📌
Democracy is a battle of ideas/words. Dr. Matembe only engages in a war of words.
#MatembeOnceDid
#IStandWithMatembe

[@Burg @Burg256]

M7 knew something we didn’t know 😭😭

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Wow! How far has Disney Fallen, they went from Prayers to the UnGodly!

[Next Radio 106.1FM @nextradio_ug]

VIDEO: Where is Dr. Miria Matembe? - Odonga Otto

#NextBigTalk #NBSUpdates

[Michael🌹 @MichaelAjobo]

CHRIST EMBASSY IS A CHURCH THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS FOR TOO LONG,
by the time you come back like this nobody is dancing again, you leave for 3 weeks and come back, nobody is spending naira, we're spending Espees, yo go for another 3 months and come back, we're no longer an organization, we're now a nation...you leave for 2 weeks come back, we no longer have a CEO we now have a prime minister... you miss another 2 weeks, we now have our own Ai assistant (Praxiom Ai)...you miss one Sunday, we now have our own trading platform plus another Ai that is imbeded in it and can help you trade without any loss (World street and Vivid Ai) ... if you miss church next week, we might have been raptured ooo 😂😂😂😂

[Erick Finest @ErickFinest]

Ladies, if he has suddenly become a late-night poet, philosopher, and "How was your day?" specialist... relax. He's not being romantic.

The World Cup is on. ⚽😂

He's just killing time until kickoff.

Write this down. Don't say I didn't warn you.

[UgHistory @UGHistory256]

28 July 2005.

Kampala Road.

A journalist named Simon Kaggwa Njala stood before a camera, struggling to explain a referendum that had confounded the nation.

"The whole message is very, very obscure," he said.

"We don't know what we are voting on. Initially we thought we were voting on parties, but today we are hearing calls that let's vote so that we kick some people out."

The Referendum That Confused a Nation - 2005

Njala's words, raw and unrehearsed, were a diagnosis of a democracy in disarray.

For nearly two decades, President Yoweri Museveni had governed Uganda under the "Movement" system, a no-party arrangement that he argued prevented the sectarian chaos of the Obote and Amin years.

But now, with the 2006 general election looming, a referendum had been called to decide whether Uganda should return to multiparty politics.

Both the government and the opposition officially supported the change.

Yet the poll went ahead at a cost of $13 million, with a question so convoluted that voters could barely make sense of it.

"Do you agree to open up the political space to allow those who wish to join different organisations/parties to do so to compete for political power?"

That was the question printed on the ballot, a tangle of bureaucratic phrasing that left ordinary Ugandans bewildered.

Njala, who would later become a key figure in the country's media landscape, captured the absurdity in real time.

"That's funny. You can't spend all that money to kick someone out. It's ridiculous."

His frustration was not just with the wording but with the entire theatre of the exercise.

What was the point of a referendum on a question that both sides had already answered?

The opposition had called for a boycott, dismissing the referendum as a waste of time and money.

The Forum for Democratic Change and other parties argued that the return to multiparty politics was long overdue and that holding a vote on it was merely a tactic to validate Museveni's 19-year rule.

The boycott worked.

On polling day, the capital saw "just a trickle of voters."

A BBC correspondent reported that poor planning and voter education had left many Ugandans "clearly not voting from an informed position."

The nation that had once queued for hours to cast ballots was now staying home, unsure what they were being asked to decide.

When the results were tallied, over 90% had voted "Yes."

Multiparty democracy was restored, on paper.

But critics called the outcome largely cosmetic.

Within months, Parliament removed presidential term limits, allowing Museveni to run again.

The main opposition candidate, Kizza Besigye, returned from exile only to be arrested on charges of treason and rape.

The referendum had changed the system; the old dynamics of control remained untouched.

Njala's words on Kampala Road had captured the truth before any ballot was counted:

Uganda was being asked a question it did not understand, at a cost it could not afford, for an outcome that had already been decided.

What does it mean when a nation votes on a question its people cannot parse, in a referendum both sides agree is unnecessary, and the result changes nothing but the letter of the law?

Simon Kaggwa Njala stood on Kampala Road and said what millions were thinking.

The referendum restored multiparty politics.

It did not restore clarity.

The confusion he diagnosed has never fully lifted.

#ughistory @SimonKaggwaNjal @GovUganda @FDCOfficial1 @NRMOnline