The peaceful procession from Nairobi CBD to the Kenya Ministry of Foreign Affairs calling out William Ruto's government for aiding the abduction of Kizza Besigye. #FreeKizzaBesigye#FreeTunduLissu#EndAbductionsEA
Comrades, Alan Kasujja (@kasujja ), Andrew Mwenda (@AndrewMwenda ), Security Minister (@KiryowaKk), you are the most intellectual amongst your friends:
As believers in civilized society, how can we be intellectual, credible, internationally respected, attractive (to foreign investors) when small people �� renowned & non-renowned – are openly picked by security forces & days, months pass without country knowing where they are! Not even a word!
Non-gun holding folk. All they can do is talk or write. How does this advance our dreams and aspirations as a country? How?
Many horrific things that happen in Uganda can be seen coming. But they often have to first happen, and authorities come out as if they’re purely accidents.
~ A glaring hole on the road will be ignored, hitting cars everyday, until it causes a terrible accident, then it is immediately filled as if it has just been discovered! Meanwhile, other huge potholes nearby are still ignored. Someone is waiting for a huge budget, or a shock.
~ Predatory practices will go on in schools, exploiting parents in development fees, inflated trip fees that motivate schools to organise regular pointless trips, exaggerated material demands, unregulated school fees increments, etc. Corporal punishment will continue in schools. The concerned ministry will look on. Until someone’s sick child is caned to death! Then they start issuing statements and new half-thought directives, which they soon ignore (after the public has gone quiet).
~ Corruption by traffic officers will be officially known and tolerated. Traffic officers will let DMCs operate and endanger passengers and other road users, for as long as they can bribe. They’ll overspeed and overload. Until a terrible accident happens and, acting like they’re shocked it happened, they come out with new performative traffic operations - which they soon abandon, back to normal corruption.
~ Torture of political opponents will go on unabated. We will even find good vocabulary to justify or ignore it. The judiciary will join the torturers. Until a prominent person dies in their hands - then we will come out like visitors who never expected it to happen. We will act very shocked and concerned, including the boneheads that were cheering - all shaking their wasted heads.
Yet, when there is no major shock amidst the same things brewing everyday, we operate as if all is normal. We will, instead, persecute those who speak about the glaring signs. We will present them as the problem - defamation, agents of imperialists and homosexuals, hooligans, etc. Waiting for another moment to pretend to be shocked and sad, when disaster strikes from the very things they’re persecuted for speaking about. Many of the disasters and ‘shocks’ we witness are nothing but outcomes of what we have allowed to die in our time. It is not only government though, but also many of us individuals that have either chosen silence, benefitting from the mess, and abdicating our individual responsibilities for a better society. And, in this direction, it needs no doomsayer to tell that much worse is yet to happen. Until we choose to sober up and build a sensible country that makes all of us safe and proud. No one is safe in a broken country.
May the little innocent souls rest in peace, and may the broken parents find consolation in this very difficult time.
A nervous country. PLU in charge - Not in charge
Government workers, NRM politicians, line ministers, security forces – are all talking in whispers, unsure about the nature of power in the present moment.
Who is in charge? PLU or NRM? Has Gen. Kainerugaba finally overthrown Gen. Museveni or have these two entered a transitional partnership? How does it work? What is this exhibitionist display of power that undermines all our pretensions of democracy?
Even belonging or declaring allegiance to Patriotic League Uganda (PLU) might not be safe enough. While these actions are not necessarily new – abductions, media closures, denials of bail – the way they are being executed has hit a new height.
It is confusing somehow.
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The challenges at hand know not opposition nor NRM. We should call upon all decent Ugandans to speak out against misrule.
I am wondering why the leadership of Parliament, Judiciary, Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, National Consultative Forum of Political Parties and the Senior Counsel Bar are not calling press conference after another to speak up against misplaced role of the military in our politics and administration of justice.
By the way, where is the Female Lawyers Network, Christian Lawyers, Catholic Lawyers Network, Network of Public Interest Lawyers and all manner of lawyers groups that were quick to issue press statements against @isaacssemakadde for calling Justice Abodo an obscene word? Are you not seeing that rule of law champion Erias Lukwago is under illegal military detention? Did you target Ssemakadde because you thought he was weaker than MK? Do you feel the pain of Lukwago and his wife?
We are surrounded by a bunch of English speaking hypocrites.
Guys, style up. Get on record and tell us your stand. Uganda will never solve the Governance problem without complete DEMILITARISATION of our politics and administration of justice.
The man of the hour.
The glassy-eyed stare. The black and white monochrome basics.
The man whose X timeline is now the most-watched news source in Uganda.
The hand of history always brings up such people to the Town Square exactly when the moment requires them.
A government which is very committed on aggressively collecting taxes from citizens but that shows no concern about the theft of that money by known individuals is a government that supports and encourages such theft and all its costs to taxpayers.
#UgandaParliamentExhibitionII
NTv: M7 gives his son a medal
NBs: Muhoozi gets a well deserved medal, where does this leave NUP?
Bukedde: abammwe bafiira Somalia eno nga engule baziwa baabwe!