The Washington Post's Editorial Board is asking the American government to immediately review its relations with the Museveni dictatorship for rigging elections and oppressing Ugandans. WE CAN'T AGREE MORE! https://t.co/i87JsVlEHq
#Uganda has hired more DC lobbyists — a Trump supporter's firm and a Democrat-linked one — in yet another attempt to ward off sanctions. Fact: no amount of PR spin or lobbying can varnish the increasingly violent and tyrannical rule of Museveni's regime.
https://t.co/pPFz6mh1TT
Four days have passed since the televised abduction of our Deputy President for the Buganda Region, Hon. Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi, by gun-wielding men in plain clothes, aided by Uganda police and traffic officers.
To this day, his whereabouts remain unknown.
The police and the military have refused to account for him. Equally disturbing is the silence of many religious and cultural leaders in the face of such blatant lawlessness, thereby normalizing it.
Where is Hon. Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi?
Regime operatives disguise themselves and commit heinous crimes against us, convinced that the world will simply move on and forget them. Take, for instance, this thug DRAKESON MUHIMBURA, a military officer.
Under police and military protection, Muhimbura led the gang that savagely attacked and grievously wounded us during our presidential campaign in Gulu last year. He thought his identity would remain a mystery forever only for one of his fellow thugs to casually blow his cover! Muhimbura is now desperately begging for the post to be deleted!
Since social media has become our public archive, let us keep these images here, too. When the time is right, THESE ARE THE CRIMINALS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
I've just been informed of the violent abduction of my Deputy President for Buganda Region, Hon. Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi, shortly after he was released on bail yesterday.
The criminal regime is doing all this to instil fear within the population, but these tactics have been employed by despots all over the world and throughout history. They never win in the end! UGANDA WILL BE FREE.
A short while ago, I spoke with Hon. Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi, our @NUP_Ug Deputy President for Buganda Region. What a delight to see that after several months, he is out of unlawful detention without trial - at least temporarily. As everyone knows, Hon. Kivumbi never committed any offence. The criminals who attacked his home and murdered people are the ones who should be answering for their crimes - and I believe they will, at the right time. For now, we welcome him back, and the other comrades he was detained with.
It is always a great delight to see that even in the midst of so much rot, there are still judicial officers who will rise above the pervasive intimidation and live to their oath.
Sending my thoughts to the families who lost their loved ones in the road accident that occurred yesterday at Bobi Trading Centre, Omoro District, along the highway to Gulu. I extend condolences to them and wish a quick recovery to those who survived with injuries.
We owe it to ourselves to make our roads safer through better infrastructure and proper maintenance, otherwise these recurring tragedies have become too normal! May the souls of the departed rest in eternal peace.
Museveni’s son said he is very proud of the pain and hurt he is inflicting on former Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. He must be very proud of himself, seeing this video. But as the saying goes, no one is tall enough to see the future. One day, the tables will turn and all these atrocities will be accounted for, one by one.
Did he say that we should be glad that those who are arrested are taken to court? How did that statement sit in the hearts of the families of these Ugandans who were abducted by state operatives between 2019 and 2020 and are still missing todate? Disappeared. Silenced. His regime desperately hoping they can be forgotten.
A few days from now, it will be three months since Christopher Goddy, a comrade and musician better known as 'King Zale,' was abducted from Kamokya. His family is very distressed, having looked for him everywhere without a trace.
As usual, the regime whose men abducted King Zale remains completely silent about his whereabouts – the same silence it has maintained about all other comrades who have been missing for several years now! We continue demanding for his immediate release from illegal detention and an end to this impunity!
Again, good people, let us learn that the RULE OF LAW helps everyone. It's akin to the air we breathe.
Seeing Mariam Wangadya cry about the deliberate destruction of the Uganda Human Rights Commission by the regime brought back memories of how she treated our numerous complaints.
She said that the 18 missing @NUP_Ug supporters were non-existent. Mocking the cries of the wives, mothers and children of Johnbosco Kibalama, John Ddamulira, Mbabazi Moses Kawenja, Kanatta Muhammad and the others, she had the audacity of suggesting that those people were ghosts, and their families staged! She said all this was "katemba" and "kiwaani".
She called for the 'disbandment' of NUP foot-soldiers, suggesting they were criminals.
She claimed that our late dear comrade, Marinos Alexandria faked her plight, after being raped from detention. When Marinos fled out of the country facing death threats, she said it was out of shame that she fled.
When our leader @HEBobiwine filed a complaint and attempted to make a personal statement before the Commission, she stopped him mid way and dismissed his complaint summarily.
And now, she suddenly agrees with what we have consistently said - that the UHRC was reduced into the most incompetent institution, incapable of fulfilling its constitutional mandate under these circumstances. TIME!
.@antonioguterres is closely following recent developments in #Uganda.
He notes with concern reports regarding the detention of political and civic actors, including cases in which the whereabouts of some individuals have not been clearly established.
https://t.co/lw0FHVzMjA
Relieved to learn that Hon. Miria Matembe has been granted bail following her abduction last week. It remains a shame that Matembe, a 73-year-old grandmother with an unblemished record of public service, had to suffer this ordeal in the first place!
Remember, Matembe was subjected to this ordeal because she bruised the fragile ego of Muhoozi Kainerugaba -- the dictator's infantile son -- when she criticized him. It really takes special cowardice for an army commander approaching 60 years of old age to flex State power on a defenceless grandmother whose courage he can never match in 100 lifetimes.
More shameful, the regime that practices sectarianism openly charged Matembe with "Promoting Sectarianism."
Imagine the very regime that breathes and practises sectarianism, claiming the moral authority to prosecute those who expose its sectarianism!
We shall have to unite and find a lasting solution for these blood-thirsty tyrants!
The U.S. needs to review its security relationship with Uganda. Gen. @mkainerugaba's attacks on free speech, including shuttering major media houses this weekend, make him & the UPDF unfit partners. We should only work with those who advance regional security, not diminish it.
It turns out that journalist and media personality @TimKalyegira, who has been missing, was actually abducted, held incommunicado, and is now being arraigned for charging! Simply because he's been outspoken about Museveni and his son's crimes. We got to this point because everyone thought that someone else would fix it. Hopefully everyone now realises the collective danger and the collective duty. Only then shall we be free.