This is what consistency looks like. Almost 30 years on, the commitment to institution building and a democracy that is bigger than the sum of our individual aspirations continues.
And it is this commitment that we offer Uganda.
Any serious brand operating in Uganda and wants to improve its sells/presence in Tooro Kingdom and beyond you need to associate your company/brand with these projects of the Queen Mother. Numbers don't lie. Check the statistics of the post below 👇 by the Queen Mother with those of the alleged King of Tooro. Remember Bay Oyo is still in the picture and shall be an addition. Kings are born and not selected. Tooro and Uganda have rejected the selected King. It is possible to follow King Oyo's Will.
Your dearly loved our Queen mother & the rest of the royal family who stood with you especially Princes Elizabeth,Prince @mpuugapatrick , his few brothers among others.
King Oyo will forever be our king & forever in our hearts.
As team baby Oyo it will be our pleasure to see him get justice & his father's will should be respected.
Your dearly loved our Queen mother & the rest of the royal family who stood with you especially Princes Elizabeth,Prince @mpuugapatrick , his few brothers among others.
King Oyo will forever be our king & forever in our hearts.
As team baby Oyo it will be our pleasure to see him get justice & his father's will should be respected.
Don't see this happening basing on the-divide and rule at it's peak by European powers & the increasing number of greedy & selfish leaders in our continent.
Africa will give birth to a son who will make Gaddafi's dreams for Africa a reality, and I am confident that Africa will overcome its shortcomings and eliminate as many foreign influences as possible.
The Simba Jike (Lioness) Who Stood with Besigye When Ruto and Museveni Abducted Him from Nairobi.
Happy birthday, Hon. Martha Wangari Karua (@MarthaKarua).
On 16 November 2024, Dr Kizza Besigye came to Nairobi to attend the launch of your book. He was abducted from an apartment in Riverside and taken back to Kampala in chains.
The regimes of William Ruto and Yoweri Museveni worked together to do it. A Kenyan capital became a hunting ground for a Ugandan dissident.
The lioness did not stay in her den.
You crossed into Uganda and went before a General Court Martial that had no lawful authority over a civilian. You stood there and demanded that justice be done, knowing the tribunal was not built to deliver it.
Some tried to shut you out on technicalities about your right to appear. You did not shrink or blink. When the Supreme Court of Uganda finally declared that civilians cannot be tried by military courts, it vindicated you.
Standing with Besigye was the latest chapter of a life spent standing where courage is scarce, yet most needed.
You were a young advocate in the dark years of one-party rule in Kenya. You defended dissidents when defending them was itself treated as dissent. You were among the voices of Kenya's Second Liberation, and you helped pry open a political space that others had sealed shut.
As Member of Parliament for Gichugu, you refused to trade principle for patronage. As Minister for Water, and later for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, you carried the reform agenda into the corridors of power. When those corridors became hostile to reform, you walked out of the Cabinet rather than stay and be complicit.
When Tanzania put Tundu Lissu on trial, you went to Dar es Salaam to witness it and were turned back at the airport.
You have never recognised borders when the cause is liberty. For you, East Africa is not merely a common market. It is a family.
This is your continuum. The courtroom in Nairobi in the 1980s, the Parliament in Gichugu, the Cabinet office you left on principle, the airport in Dar es Salaam, and the court martial in Kampala are one road. It is the road of someone who believes that law must restrain power, not merely serve it, and that solidarity is not a slogan but a journey undertaken at one's own risk.
Simba Jike, you have taught a generation of East African lawyers that the robe is not a costume. It is a commitment. You have taught us that when a comrade is abducted, you do not issue a statement and go home. You follow him into the lion's den, and you roar.
On your 69th birthday, we celebrate your life, your courage, and your stubborn faith in justice. May you have many more years of health and strength. May you live to see Dr Besigye walk free. May you live to see the East Africa you have fought for, where no government can hunt its critics across a neighbour's border.
Happy 69th birthday, Mama Simba.
You like free things ...
You are the type that want to give your dead wife's clothes to your new wife.
There is a lot of land in Tooro kingdom. Why don't you construct a new palace for your new king?