Mapaparas

Always be humble and Kind

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@NathanNuwagira2 @FredShaka @Wassajja_Aiden @SSssebunya @Fahad38158546 @Plumedia1 Free Sam Mugumya

[Kakwenza Rukirabashaija @KakwenzaRukira]

Some of us are mobile exhibits of torture under your command and we have stories about it as survivors. I’ll not insult you today otherwise I’d have called you a pair of Natasha’s buttocks.

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@ChrisOMagezi @mkainerugaba @KiryowaKk @newvisionwire @ubctvuganda @ChimpReports @UgandaMediaCent @UGIndependent @nbstv @KampalaPost @GCICUganda New commander of torture..Free Sam Mugumya..

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@JanetMuseveni Meanwhile free Sam Mugumya!!

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@ubctvuganda This is peace he brags about!!!

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@NathanNuwagira2 @SSssebunya @Wassajja_Aiden @FredShaka @AkelloJM @KagutaMuseveni This is peace!!!

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Friends, how about we respond with this video under every government officials and entities’ tweets, demanding for the release of Sam Mugumya. It is over a year now!

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@KennethOmona @IsaacSsemakadde @KagutaMuseveni Free Sam from torture

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@ubctvuganda With such people in basement of his being tortured..

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

@BOU_Official Torture of Ugandans and detention without trial MUST STOP!
#FreeSamMugumya

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

Very grateful to the European Parliament @Europarl_EN for debating the situation in Uganda and passing a very important resolution condemning the sham election, as well as the subsequent violations of human rights by the Museveni regime. Adding your voices to those of the millions of oppressed people in Uganda reassures us that the world is watching and that eventually, there will be accountability for the crimes committed against the people of Uganda.

https://t.co/4IkfgJ4N8V

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Dear @JudiciaryUG,
Investigate these things and clean up accordingly. It is possible if you have the will. You definitely don’t want to be known for such.
#UgandaJudiciaryExhibition

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@elonmusk We still need your star link services in Uganda for the upcoming elections. We have a brutal tyrant too who has ruled us for 40 years without a free and fair election, please don’t keep us in darkness he will murder us in silence.

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@bbstvug @MathiasMpuuga Genda ogawe nyoko tukooye enkwezenge

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@HuduHussein @HEBobiwine @kizzabesigye1 Did u do your retake and pass?

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@bbstvug @MathiasMpuuga Walya 500m okyatugamba ki nawe

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@MathiasMpuuga Tolina makulu ssebo…

[Mapaparas @_kamsM]

@nbstv @DaudiKabanda You are always lying … tolina kyotugamba

[NTV UGANDA @ntvuganda]

. @JoelSsenyonyi - It is misleading to claim that the government is saving Ugandan taxpayers' money through rationalizing agencies.

#EbigamboTebitta

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT

Mr President,
Much of what was said during your address last night could also be true, but it misses the point in the debate over UCDA and coffee. Much of your effort was put on showing how UCDA is incompetent and corrupt. About its corruption, I have indeed heard about much of what was testified by the people who spoke alongside you. I have also witnessed some of it in my village in Masaka. Many people in the coffee growing villages actually know it. But they will also tell you that they’ve changed from practices such as drying coffee on the bare ground, mixing coffee with stones to boost weight, picking raw coffee, etc due to ‘harassment’ by UCDA.

You conveniently avoided talking about the several initiatives that have died in the hands of the Ministry of Agriculture. Go to the villages and ask farmers whether/how the Ministry of Agriculture is present in their farming. Why did you have to take the army into NAADS? Wasn’t it after acknowledging that the Ministry (civilians) had failed it? How about now? In short, your evaluation was very prejudiced, dressed in confirmation bias, thus shrewdly selective. Yet moving from UCDA to the Ministry might only be like the journey from the mortuary to the cemetery. A cannibal can’t be the one to save me from a witch.

But that’s not my main point. First, you should have asked yourself why many people are resisting your move. Perhaps you did, but you limited yourself to a small part of the answer. You seem to think that coffee farmers are simply being misled by politicians and Mengo (in Buganda). This implies that you doubt the judgement of the farmers. They can’t make informed decisions on their own, they are just swayed like twigs in wind. That’s a wrong assumption.

The actual problem you are faced with is that of TRUST. Every passing day, fewer Ugandans trust your government. And you surely know the cause, but you avoid it because you are now captive to it - having left it to grow over the years for your conveniences. It is THEFT. It is grand theft. It is long fingers.

You surely know that you reign over a grossly thieving uncaring government. Having witnessed the blatant thieving that accompanies almost every initiative you passionately defend, do you expect people to trust your motives another time? It is the reason why everything you start now, even in good faith, people will be asking: ‘What do they want to steal this time?’

No amount of force is going to fix this public attitude. No number of speeches is going to change the public’s opinion over government projects. And, unfortunately, even if you shove Bills down the nation’s throat at gunpoint, without their cooperation, those Bills won’t work. They can only help facilitate more thieving, but not improve the wellbeing of those they’re forced onto.

Just reign in on your known thieves, if you still can (I doubt). Simply announcing good intentions while the public doesn’t see them in action against their exploiters won’t solve anything. It will only make you feel good for having asserted yourself.

Poor people have been alienated from Lakes under your watch. My village is close to a once booming landing site called Ddimo. We used to enjoy fish during my childhood. Now, most locals only hear about fish and watch trucks (firiigi) taking them away for export. Do you call this development no matter what it might add to the GDP figures you love?Would such people feel that you care for them, and that you are now extending your hand into coffee in good faith? For almost everything that generates incomes and facilitates livelihoods, when the hand of your government is extended into it, it is often to alienate the communities in it and capture it for a few special greedy ones around you.

Mr President, it is this side of the coffee debate that you either do not see or have chosen to ignore. Some of us actually don’t really care about UCDA, we only worry about something worse.

Jimmy Spire Ssentongo