Mboneko Viola R.

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[Mboneko Viola R. @FriendofGod143]

Sunday Thoughts.
Seventy years are given to us ! Some even live to eighty. (Psalm 90:10)

Do the maths. How much more time do you have to live a life of impact?
#sundaythoughts.

(This was me enjoying @FortMotelUganda ) #exploreuganda @ExploreUganda @RockBoom_UG

[Mugisha Muntu @mugishamuntu]

@KagutaMuseveni
The current trend in our politics is quite worrying. Abducting Hon Erias Lukwago, a lawyer in the course of conducting his legal duties of representing a client, torturing & humiliating him is not only a sign of contempt for the rule of law but also for the citizenry, beside being a sign of utter recklessness. Fear and terror as tools of control as you may know work for a while but always have a limit. We do not have to maintain the same direction. History has shown us that this route is untenable and it never ends well. "Change being the only constant" is an immutable law. At this point the buck stops with the President & C-I-C . Parliament and the Judiciary are in no position to act ( UNFORTUNATELY);those who may celebrate that fact may be like young monkeys laughing at a burning forest.. You have to choose which direction the Country takes Mr President. It is never too late. Will you maintain the route all past governments took in spite of the inevitable consequences or a NEW route. If it is to be a new route, I must say, it takes tremendous courage. I hope you Mr President will summon the necessary courage to act as is necessary to do.

[Mboneko Viola R. @FriendofGod143]

@CanaryMugume Therefore you condemn? Right? The sentence is hanging

[Mboneko Viola R. @FriendofGod143]

@mkainerugaba But why?

[Mboneko Viola R. @FriendofGod143]

@drstellanyanzi Congratulations Dr. This is inspirational God bless the kids to greater heights may you live to see more of their milestones

[Stella Nyanzi @drstellanyanzi]

For me, as a single mum of twenty years, my sole greatest achievement in life has been mothering my three children. Educating my children in the best private school wherever we lived has been my life’s hardest assignment. Beyond grooming them to excel at their academic work, in competitive sports and the arts, I have always insisted on raising good humans with solid character.

Single mothers in Uganda, my home-country, are judged very harshly. We are blamed for failing to remain married to the father(s) of our children. We are suspected of every form of immorality which we freely pass onto our clueless children. We are feared for constantly being on the look out for good men to snatch from other women, seduce for ourselves and sex in our beds in homes we share with our children. We are shamed for lacking the resources to meet all our children’s essential needs in a timely manner. Blah-blah-blah…

Our children grow up surrounded by these negative sentiments. If we do not balance between shielding them from and directly confronting these baseless value judgments, our children grow up believing we are wicked women. And so, for me, I encouraged direct age-appropriate communication with my children at all times and on any topic. They have always been free to engage with me whether alone, in twos or all three together. Any one of us has an equal right to raise any topic, and the rest must provide engaged audience and honest feedback - even around sensitive topics.

For younger single mums wondering how they will educate their own children, I routinely used to share tips that made the task easier over the years. The top four tips are:

1) Instead of paying all school fees in one big chunk at the start of a year, it was always easier for me to request and negotiate with school bursars to pay scheduled instalments for each of the children. These instalments were spread over the entire academic term, semester or year. This called for swallowing my pride, stilling fear and beating the shame of begging for an alternative payment model. In all cases, the school bursars were kind and considerate.

2) Bulk buying and storage of food stuff, toiletries, and essential household necessities ensured there was enough to cover our daily needs. At home, I always had favorite neighbourhood shopkeepers whom I patronised whenever I had money. When the money was tight, these shopkeepers kept an open book of items taken on credit by either myself, my children or one of my household members. When I was paid my monthly salary, I honoured our agreement by clearing all the debts in a timely manner.

3) I operated the same principle with a favorite clinic, pharmacy, bodabodaman, hair saloon, barber and any other regular service provider. When I had money, I paid well for their services to the children. When the money was tight, they trusted me enough to work on credit because I was known to pay my debts at the end of the month when salary came.

4) Ask for help from trusted family, friends and neighbours. Delegate responsibilities to other trusted adults who can delegate to you when their turn comes. Crowd source resources such as car-shares with families in the same residential area whose children attend similar sports clubs, swimming pools or concert practice. Give and take from parents in similar situations.

If I raised and educated three children, any and all other single mothers can raise and educate their children too! It was very difficult. I often had no sure sense of success. I often went through the hustle alone and fightened. I was sometimes judged harshly before I even started. But alas, the hard task of completing my children’s mandatory education is done!

Mama Stella

[Kanindo @ivan_magomu]

45,749 of you have signed and I want you to know that every single one of those signatures means something. You are not just a number on a page, you are a statement. You are proof that Uganda is watching and that we refuse to look away. Thank you from the bottom of a broken heart.

But we need more. Please keep signing and sharing.

https://t.co/JA8NPKEvAB

Here is the reality we are fighting against. According to Uganda's own Crime Reports, mob action killings rose from 746 in 2019 to 953 in 2022 to 1,039 in 2023. Uganda's CID 2025 Annual Crime Report recorded 950 mob action deaths, making it the second leading cause of murder in this country, behind only assault. That means that on average, nearly 3 Ugandans are killed by mobs every single day. Most of them die and the world moves on. The mobs scatter, the families bury their loved ones in silence and nothing changes.

But Sydney is different, not because his life mattered more than theirs, because every single one of those lives was sacred and irreplaceable but because this time we are awake, we are organised and we have a real opportunity to turn one man's murder into a revolution that ends this vice for good.

A public trial is bigger than a verdict, It is a declaration to every Ugandan that no mob, no crowd, no group of goons gets to play God on our streets. It changes behaviour, It saves future lives and It is the loudest possible message that this will never be tolerated again.

Sydney's murder did not just take a life, It traumatised all of us and we all felt it. That trauma deserves to heal in public, together, the same way it was inflicted on us in public. A public trial gives us that space to grieve together, to process together and to say together, as one nation, NEVER AGAIN.

So if you have not signed, please sign now. If you have signed, share it everywhere. Your family group chat, story, feed, tag your friends and leaders. 45,749 people have already said enough is enough. Let us make that number so loud it cannot be ignored.

This is for Sydney, every victim before him and every Ugandan who could be next, because a mob has no criteria and no mercy.

Sign. Share. Demand Justice. 🖤

#JusticeForSydney #JusticeForSydneyGongodyo #SignThePetition #BlackPirates #UgandaRugby #EndMobViolence #Uganda

[Kahinda Otafiire @otafiire_k]

Hon. Professor @KamuntuProf , I forgot to tell you, please don’t tolerate any form of extrajudicial killings especially by some few rogue officers in the Crime Intelligence Directorate.

[Capital FM Uganda @CapitalFMUganda]

We are talking about less than 40B shillings, not a trillion this conversation is completely unnecessary. Our budget is full of wasteful "wants" we can cut to fund this "need." Interns aren't just training; they run the wards because consultants are completely overwhelmed.

[Capital FM Uganda @CapitalFMUganda]

I missed this Cabinet debate while away, but as someone who did internship, private interns must be paid. The workload in our referral & district hospitals is heavy and full-time. I’m engaging the President to re-table this; we must find the money to fund all interns. #CapitalFM

[Herman Kinene @hermankinene]

As we angrily mourn the gruesome murder of Sydney, this story of an innocent 21yr old young man Timothy Ssemugenyi who was killed in a very similar manner in 2021 touched me so much but unlike in Sydney's case where @PoliceUg seems to be doing everything to arrest the murderers, the killers of Timothy were arrested and later released by Kabalagala Police after money exchanged hands.

This footage by @ntvuganda reveals how the parents of the poor boy were bitter for not getting justice to the extent that Police extorted money from them to secure the CCTV footage, such is our country!

The @PoliceUg should tell us how they ended the investigations into the murder of Timothy Ssemugenyi which seemed to have been a well planned motive 5yrs down the road even when the murders were known, arrested and released.😢

[Mboneko Viola R. @FriendofGod143]

Alcohol is unhealthy 🤣✌🏾

[Michael Aboneka @MichaelAboneka]

So a govt increasing tax on sugar, cooking oil and cement on its poor citizenry wants to prosper the same citizenry?

[Mboneko Viola R. @FriendofGod143]

@sejudav Ebitakuli =sweet potatoes 😅

[David Sejusa, DM. @sejudav]

😅😅

[Dr. Aine @ Emotors @DokitaSharon]

Sydney died in a cruel way. What struck me in the videos is how he didn't fight back.
But as someone with forensic pathology knowledge, this was not normal.
Sydney must have been sprayed with some chemicals before they got him out of the car, we don't see that part.
Was a drug toxicology done on autopsy ?
Someone with so much strength, one who can fight and run through several men(during the game) couldn't have just looked on unless he was drugged.
MHRIP as we continue to find out what happened.
@abaasadaniel

[Mboneko Viola R. @FriendofGod143]

@nasser_Ug1 @MatiaK5 He has left us hopefully 🤞

[TumukundeTonny(TT) @TumukundeTT]

The High Court Civil Division has ordered @UCUniversity @uculaw to pay its former Guild President Samantha Mwesigye Ugx.100m in general damages for failing to transfer her first year law credits obtained from @KingsCollegeLon and irratiinally blocking her graduation. The verbal communication by the Vice Chancellor and the Dean School of law has been quashed. What a case in advancing the rights of students!!. Thanks to @KAAdvocates and my Arsenal friend @FERDINANDIUS for this win.

[NBS Television @nbstv]

VIDEO: Hon. @ZambaaliBulasio raises concerns over rising criminal gangs targeting citizens in town.

#NBSUpdates #NBSParliamentLive #PlenaryUg

[Mboneko Viola R. @FriendofGod143]

@TheMutambuze @grok Hahaha we are not worthy of your explanation 😂 you brought reinforcement. Anyway that argument is common. I say buy the land! Assets over liabilities any day! And why is one banking on the possibility that they will benefit from their family ? That is some level of confidence!

[AIDEN OFFICAL @Wassajja_Aiden]

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐮𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐢: 𝐄𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐨𝐛 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞

As Uganda continues to mourn the tragic loss of Sydney Gongodyo, a promising young rugby player brutally killed by a mob in June 2026, another grieving family in Makindye Division, Kabalagala, still waits for answers more than three years later.

On or around 14th May 2023, our beloved son, Timothy Semugenyi, a 21-year-old innocent young man, became a victim of mob violence in the Kabalagala area. A case was promptly registered at Kabalagala Police Station under 𝐒𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐅: 𝟎𝟒/𝟏𝟒/𝟎𝟓/𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑. Yet, to this day, the family has received no meaningful justice. No arrests have been made, and the perpetrators remain free.

The family alleges that the officer handling the file demanded money before they could access critical National CCTV footage that could have identified those responsible. This alleged barrier has left a grieving father and mother without closure, while the killers walk freely in our community.

Mob justice has claimed too many innocent lives across Uganda. When formal institutions fail to act swiftly and transparently, ordinary citizens tragically take the law into their own hands often punishing the wrong people. Timothy’s case, like Sydney’s, highlights the urgent need for reliable policing, prompt investigations, and zero tolerance for corruption.

𝐖𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧:
• The Inspector General of Police and the Kampala Metropolitan @PoliceUg to immediately review and fast-track SDREF: 04/14/05/2023. @igp_ug1 @CID1_UG @Tom_Magambo

• The relevant officers to release or facilitate access to all available CCTV evidence without further delay or unofficial payments.

• The Director of Public Prosecutions and Uganda Human Rights Commission to ensure this case is properly investigated and those responsible are brought to justice. @ODPPUGANDA

• All well-meaning Ugandans and civil society to stand with Timothy’s family in demanding accountability.

No parent should have to bury a child and then fight the system for years just to see justice done. Timothy deserves the same energy and attention now being shown in high-profile cases. Let this tragedy contribute to real reform so that no other family endures this pain.