Alebtong 🇺🇬

Taking note. Gradient over impluse

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

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[Stella Nyanzi @drstellanyanzi]

SHAME ON ALAN KASUJJA & ANDREW MWENDA
I am deeply ashamed of two men in the hierarchy of the leadership of the Patriotic League of Uganda @PluMediaSEC , given yesterday’s illegal shut down of the @DailyMonitor , @ntvuganda, @sparktvuganda, @933kfm and @DembeFm . Why didn’t Alan Kasujja and Andrew Mwenda protect press freedom and free speech from Muhoozi’s iron fist?

I lent Alan @kasujja my type writer for his very first typing lessons and practice exercises. It was 1994. I was in the second year of my Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication and Literature at Makerere University. Alan was a good Born-Again brother-in-Christ who desperately needed a type writer on which to practice and perfect his typing skills. I had recently bought my first type writer with Boom money the university annually granted to students then. Alan would come to CCE to borrow my type writer on Friday afternoon, take it to his home for practice over the weekends, and then return it in time for me to type my course work assignments. This became routine for a while, until I let him borrow the type writer for a vacation.

When Alan grew up to become a hot-pants celebrity Ugandan journalist at the BBC HQ in London, I was very proud to know him. He represented free speech, free expression, media freedom, the rights of journalists to practice their profession without undue state interruption, etc. Today, I am amazed at how badly the mighty giant has fallen! How can Alan look on as his brutish military friend shuts down a whole chain of public media houses? Of what use is Alan to the media fraternity if he cannot protect journalists, newspapers, TV stations and radio stations from the brute’s over-reach?

And then, there is @AndrewMwenda . Yoh, what disappointment!!! I was with Andrew in the same tiny class of only 20 brilliant students at Makerere Universiy. We studied Mass Communication together for three years. I sat on the third row of the first line of our classroom. Mwenda sat on the last row of that line, at the very back of the classroom. Although he could be loud and obnoxious when driving his point in a debate, he was generally good natured and had his heart in the right place. When he fell ill and uncharacteristically missed class for weeks, I went with a mutual friend to Lumumba Hall to visit him. He was that type of guy; one deserving of empathy because he gave it.

And so, I still get shocked by the wicked ugly monster whom Mwenda turned into these past few years. Embracing old and young dictators brought out Mwenda’s long talons, long blood-sucking probosis, long fangs, and long lying tongue. Licking brutal Muhoozi’s arse rendered Mwenda totally impotent. He cannot man up and defend the independence of critical public media. He cannot defend press freedom, media freedom, free speech or free expression. He cannot defend the rights of journalists to work freely! Of what use is Mwenda to journalism in Uganda?

I am ashamed of both Andrew Mwenda and Alan Kasujja for allowing empty-headed @mkainerugaba to shit into press freedom in Uganda. I am ashamed because both of these Ugandan journalists lack a backbone and balls. I spit on their names!

[Thomas @Owishemwe]

746 Ugandans in South Africa are so scared for their lives that they asked to be repatriated back home…but in Kampala every week we are booking South African artistes and DJs, when shall we learn to grow a pair.

[Naivasha Ruth @RuthNaivasha]

If taking it to the streets is no OPTION because they don't value life either, unfollow ALL government aided platforms. Stand with the truth

Let's go!

[David de Gea @D_DeGea]

For life ❤️

[TOKO @GodwinTOKO]

Habibi, this man, Sam Wilfred Aswaat is remembered for two things. The first is that he is the man who announced Idi Amin’s coup on Radio Uganda on January 25, 1971. The second reason is that he became one of Idi Amin’s earliest victims. Amin KILLED him!

Dictatorships are bitches, when you see one sprouting, don't associate with it. Better still, don't do anything that helps it become entrenched. Don't praise the dictator, don't justify their actions, don't work for them in any capacity, & don't say you want to be inside it so you can change thing from the inside - when all you want is a well-paying job and a sense of belonging with the powerful.

Now is the stage where the critics are being picked, it won't be long before the part of the “revolution” eating its children sets it.

[TOKO @GodwinTOKO]

Within 14-days:

1. Lukwago abducted, now in jail.
2. Miria Matembe abducted, whereabouts unknown.
3. Timothy Kalyegira, abducted now remanded.
4. Eunice Musiime, abducted then released.
5. Sarah Bireete, abducted, then released.
6. Daily Monitor, CLOSED.
7. NTV, CLOSED.

Bruh!🙌🏾

[Alebtong 🇺🇬 @OgwangOlwe]

And twirrra

[Gava Charles @charlesgava_256]

So we're now stuck with tiktok and NBS as sources of news.

Such a low bar.

[4quest.❤️🔱🖤 @thinkpiecetribe]

The New York Post treats Zohran Mamdani like how J. Jonah Jameson treats Spider-Man lmao

[Adv Tumusiime @TumusiimeKato]

Colleagues, @TimKalyegira is now at Kira Magistrates court on charges related to Computer misuse.

We should all stand in solidarity with him.
@KwikirizaNova @GiftGrace01 @Pliam_

[wes @weskambale]

the case of tim kalyegira shows you how the courts are bein' openly used as conduits of injustice and oppression

the establishment is arraignin' tim at kiira court on charges of computer misuse, likely misuse of social media

that particular provision was struck down along with the entire computer misuse (amendment) act, 2022, which was declared null and void

but for some reason, a magistrate will entertain those rubbish charges and possibly send good ol' tim to luzira

[Maria Alesi @aalesimaria]

Good morning @allsaintskla it is Monday morning and you have said nothing about your missing devout congregant Miria Matembe.

[NICHOLAS SENGOBA @nsengoba]

It's DAY 553 since PC Charles Bahati of Bushenyi shot dead, Julius Ssemwaka, driver of UAX 480C & 'fled' on a boda boda, from armed patrol policemen. Police 'recovered' only the gun. Let's retweet daily to remind @igp_ug1, @CID1_UG & @PoliceUg to #ArrestSuspectPCCharlesBahati.

[wes @weskambale]

one of the most self-defeatin' habits we've normalized as ugandans is outsourcin' courage

i see too many people use their voice, not to speak about the issue itself, but to demand that someone else speak on their behalf

"where is so-and-so?"
"why hasn't this person tweeted?"
"why is that leader silent?"

yet you remain silent yourself

if an issue affects you, your voice matters too

civic action is not sustained by a handful of prominent figures; it's sustained by thousands of ordinary people consistently refusin' to be silent

when we repeatedly push the same few people to the front, the establishment knows exactly who to watch, intimidate, arrest, or isolate

once those individuals are neutralized, the movement loses momentum while everyone waits for the next "hero" to emerge

dictators struggle to suppress 1 million voices, they find it much easier to suppress 10

imagine if everyone who demanded that another person speak instead used their own account, their own whatsapp status, their own conversations, and their own platform to speak, question, document, and organize

the cumulative effect would be far greater than waitin' for a celebrity, politician, journalist, or activist to carry the burden alone

don't underestimate your reach because your tweet gets 4 likes and 1 retweet

social change has never depended on virality; it depends on persistence

every voice that joins makes silence harder to enforce

instead of askin', "why isn't someone speakin'?"

ask, "why am i not?"

kunahimbire 👋

[wes @weskambale]

go and subscribe to @dailymonitor

pay for a month or a year, if you can

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is how the BBC reported a doctor being literally raped to death by Israeli forces.

[Yusuf Serunkuma🌹 @YusufSerunkuma]

"Capitalism doesn’t stop at exploiting human labor; it seizes their memories too. When a revolutionary symbol is stripped of its content and history, then prostituted to become a tool for marketing commodities, it loses its power to mobilize and incite, becoming part of the consumption cycle."

🫡

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Kylian Mbappé:

“Sports betting is destructive. It has ruined the lives of some people I know. That's why I refused to appear in sports betting advertisements. Many of us come from the suburbs, and it destroys the lives of countless people there.”

[Gideon Nova Kwikiriza @KwikirizaNova]

Dear @SueNsibirwa, please know that you are loved, valued, and deeply appreciated by countless Ugandans.

You stood at the helm of a media house that chose truth over fear, courage over silence, and remained steadfast in telling the stories of the people exactly as they were, without bending to intimidation or surrendering to the demands of tyranny.

No matter what happens, history has already chosen your side. You are a hero of this generation, and when the pages of Uganda’s story are written, your name and face will stand among those who refused to kneel before oppression.