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In 1971, a university student sat down and wrote, in remarkable detail, how liberation movements get hijacked: surveillance, elite capture, and the slow betrayal of everything they claimed to fight for.
That student was Yoweri Museveni.
#WeTheFinishers#RedLineAgenda
An extractive society such as that of Uganda is created by people with unquenchable hunger for power. They kill, maim, and imprison all political opponents creating prisoners of conscience. As a result, no one stays to check their misdeeds and excesses.
We're sorry Besigye, Shame on Us!
When you left your good paying job at Aga Khan to come and join the 'liberation' struggle, you didn't wink an eye. You let it all go, putting aside the white coat in an air-conditioned facility, to get drenched in rain and bush rags, and you become fodder for mosquitoes. Yet we don't acknowledge you enough. We are sorry Colonel; Shame on Us.
When you were ejected from cabinet because you had disagreements with the way the administration handled the affairs of the day, you went back to uniform. Yet you didn't blink, we are sorry.
When you advised government to keep on the right trajectory which it was losing, you were harassed, branded the black sheep, yet you did it for our nation. We are sorry doctor.
Shame on Us to believe that the Besigye who left his position as commander of the tankers to stand in an election (2001), now wants to overthrow the government using a pistol.
Shame on Us to believe that the prison you endured, the torture, harassment to yourself and family were stage-managed events paid by the state. Shame on Us.
When false charges of rape and terrorism were thrown to your face, and we sat in wonder, we did not raise a finger, yet you kept in motion. We are sorry.
And when the state mismanaged the post election economy in 2011, you did not give a dime about your own safety. You cared about the future of millions of Ugandans, went fully out. Forcing policy changes while putting your own life at stake. A potential starvation of millions was averted. We are sorry.
Unrelenting, you warned us. You corrected us. Gathered us. And pulled together all forces of change with an aim of forming a joint front. Yet when the monster came for you, we scattered, like sheep without their herdsman. Indeed we are sheep. Sorry Dr. Besigye.
Sorry for hiding behind our keyboards to cry, "Free Besigye" when you are sleeping in the dungeons. The Besigye we know would never hide behind his phone but would take to arms. Our silence is loud, ringing the bells of 'I don't care'. We are sorry.
We are sorry, that of the millions you defended, whose future you re-assured, and the hope you built, we cannot build for you hope. Shame on Us.
SHAME on us that while from your youthful age till your advanced age, you are still fighting for national salvation, we, the able-bodied youths, are busy womanizing, dining and wining without any iota of care towards the future of this nation. Counting on a heaven-sent Messiah. Shame on us. Perhaps the Arch-Bishop Kazimba was right. You, Dr. Besigye, too have a family. You shouldn't die for us. You are not the Messiah. But no, your resolve in this struggle is for life -- till the mission is accomplished. Shame on us who run away from defending our generational missions claiming we are Messiahs.
SHAME on us that you spent years preaching defiance. Yet what do we do with oppression? Compliance. Greed for power, money and positions supersede our struggle for freedom and democracy. And we have resorted to paying lip service towards the struggle for freedom and democracy. We are sorry Besigye, Shame on Us.
When you finally find your way out of hell, we will bury our crowns of shame. Come to embrace you. Take pictures with you. That we fought for your freedom? No. A way to throw away our clowns of shame. We are sorry.
SHAME ON US.
But soon, and very soon, the bells will ring and victory shall come.
@TheFinishers01
WE THE PEOPLE OF UGANDA — as you remind us.
As the Finishers, invoking the power and duty in Article 3 of the 1995 Constitution, we demand the full restoration of the Rule of Law, but with an Offensive, lawful and collective approach because defense alone no longer works.
I had taken a break from X for personal reasons, but I have been compelled to come back because of my duties as a citizen of Uganda. I speak not only on my behalf but also on behalf of all those fellow Ugandans who are not able to do so due to circumstances beyond their control. To continue remaining silent would be a gross betrayal of my hardworking late parents, who never denied me an opportunity for education as a girl child. Remaining silent would also be a betrayal of our forefathers and foremothers - (the deceased hardworking Ugandan citizens), whose sweat and taxes supported and paid for my Advanced Secondary Education at Trinity College Nabbingo, my three-year legal training at Makerere University, one year at the Law Development Centre, and also partially supported my Doctoral studies in Law for two years.
During the period I have not made any new posts on X, I have continued to follow the events going on in our dear country, Uganda, which have received national and international coverage. These events continue to depict and project the continued erosion of constitutionalism, the rule of law, respect for human rights, and equal and timely access to justice. I’m deeply saddened by all those who have chosen to take us back on the journey which we resolved and declared to be behind us in 1995 when we adopted our Constitution of Uganda. The Preamble to our Constitution reads as follows:
“WE THE PEOPLE OF UGANDA:
Recalling our history which has been characterised by political and constitutional instability;
Recognising our struggles against the forces of tyranny, oppression and exploitation;
Committed to building a better future by establishing a socio-economic and political order through a popular and durable national Constitution based on the principles of unity, peace, equality, democracy, freedom, social justice and progress;
Exercising our sovereign and inalienable right to determine the form of governance for our country, and having fully participated in the Constitution-making process;
Noting that a Constituent Assembly was established to represent us and to debate the Draft Constitution prepared by the Uganda Constitutional Commission and to adopt and enact a Constitution for Uganda;
Do hereby, in and through this Constituent Assembly, solemnly adopt, enact and give to ourselves and our posterity, this Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, this 22nd day of September, in the year 1995.
FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY”
I would like to thank all my fellow citizens who continue to do the right thing and continue to uphold our Constitution, and I encourage you to continue in those footsteps. Let’s not give up on our dear country, Uganda.
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The #Finishers in the diaspora came together in Munich to take a stand on the lawlessness going on in Uganda. They acknowledged the political decay in the country and are calling on everyone's solidarity to stand up against impunity!
#ugandaIsBleeding#TheFinishers
@NinyeTabz@NinyeTabz you are a son of the Western part of our country and good in investigative research help me out on this. Is M7 a son of the indigenous tribes of Western Uganda?
As I undress Museveni