Achiro P. Olwoch

Patricia Achiro Olwoch hails from Gulu, in Northern Uganda and she is a writer/film maker and playwright

[Maimuna Ibrahim @axee_mah]

Hi! My name is Maimuna Ibrahim, an indie author, and this is my debut paperback, Flaws.

If this somehow made it onto your timeline, please like, repost, and share. It would mean the world to me and would really help this book reach more readers.

Thank you so much. 🩷📚

[Napoleone Ehmah @NapoleoneEm]

WHY EVERYONE LOVES MIRIA MATEMBE:
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See, Dr. Miria Matembe reminds almost everyone of their mother; the typical African Mother. Unpredictable, Fearless, Risky, Hilarious, in between being Mean and being Angelic.
-The kind of mother you ask after eating, “Mummy where should I put the plate,?” And she says, “Put it on my head.”
-The kind of mother who hears/sees you break a glass plate and gives you another ten plates saying, “Break these ones too, we no longer need them.”
-The kind of mother who attempts to slap your face and when you protect your face with your hands, she calls her brothers (your uncles) and says, “If you fine me dead just know your nephew finished me; isn’t he the one who now has beards and a deep voice?”
-That mother who would beat you blue black but should any teacher beat you at school, the headmaster, teacher on duty, bursar and Askari would have to leave the country until she stops coming to school to ask, “Who wanted to kill my child.”
-The kind of mother who would see you accept a piece of meat from the visitor and give you that look with a pointed mouth-the look that would make you go to wash plates, mop the toilets and slash the compound at night without being told to.
-A disciplinarian with unmatched motherly love, a pillar in her family, the one who keeps the home together and the one who praises God like they have ever met face to face.
That’s why we love Miria Matembe. We see our mothers in her.

[Shafik Channel @ShafikChan78351]

All womens stand up and demand your rights today by Miria Matembe.
@NUP_Ug
@HEBobiwine

[Dr. Bireete Sarah @SarahBireete]

Members of the Uganda Women’s Movement across all generations have camped at Luzira court the whole day, waiting for the outcome of Hon. Dr. Miria Matembe’s bail application.

Ruling in a few #FreeMiriaMatembe

[Solomon King #FreeBesigye @solomonking]

Besigye.
Matembe.
Kalyegira.
Lukwago.
Hundreds more.
Thousands more.

We're back in the nightmare they claim they released us from.

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

September 1995:
Hon. Miria Matembe, among other outstanding women, celebrating the new Constitution, whose drafting she had been part of, including a strong Bill of Rights in Chapter 4.
Now, at 73 years, she has to helplessly plead like a child in tears before a young magistrate, for things as basic as respecting her right to health and fair hearing! Spending the night in jail with her raw disregarded pain, I can’t imagine what is running through her mind as she flashes back!

[Dr. Bireete Sarah @SarahBireete]

Hon Dr. Miria Matembe 20 years ago 👇
#MatembeOnceSaid
#IStandWithMatembe
#FreeMiriaMatembe

Uganda’s surviving matriarch of the women’s movement in military detention at 72 years

[Lucky Mbabazi @LuckyMbabazi]

It's like watching my own mother. The emotions going through me right now, i can't even explain. How did we even get here?

[Josephine Karungi @jkkarungi]

And don’t forget to pray for your country. Don’t leave that to someone else, they are also leaving it to someone else and someone else might be too bitter or too preoccupied to remember that prayer changes things. Do not give up. Pray, wherever and whoever you are. It is not in vain. Please pray. This is not business as usual.

[The good gal 💥😍 ❤️🍷 @Pliam_]

Even after Dr. Miria Matembe pleaded and cried for mercy. The magistrate still denied her bail application 💔

What happened to humanity ?

[David Lewis Rubongoya @DavidLRubongoya]

The pain!
#FreeUgandaNow

[David Lewis Rubongoya @DavidLRubongoya]

This was Hon. Miria Matembe pleading with the Magistrate to allow her to go for treatment for her back. "At least Amin used to shoot you, po! But this kind of breaking......." She said.

For context, this senior citizen was one of the eminent Ugandans who traversed this country seeking views on the 1995 Constitution! As I saw her crying out, I couldn't help but imagine what was going on in her mind. Mulimba mutufuze bubi nnyo!
#FreeUgandaNow

[The Nairobi Times @TheNairobiTimez]

The NTV Story that led to the closure of all the Nation Media Group operations in Uganda by General Muhoozi

[Samwise Gamgee @Sambannz]

"Miria Matembe is a mother. She speaks the truth to power, Yes. But she also speaks as a mother."
#IStandWithMatembe
#FreeMiriaMatembe

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

In #Uganda, President Museveni’s son and military chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba ordered the shutdown of the Daily Monitor newspaper, continuing his unchecked and unjust campaign of harassment and intimidation of independent media and civil society.

These latest attacks on media outlets in Uganda are emblematic of years-long crackdown on freedoms of expression and association in the country.
https://t.co/gdItBOco9B

[Samwise Gamgee @Sambannz]

"But when President M7 loved power more than the vision that he had come with, then things went astray."~Hon.Miria Matembe
#MatembeOnceSaid
#IStandWithMatembe

[The Washington Times @WashTimes]

Ugandan army chief orders the closure of a major news platform https://t.co/xZ54vFFODk

[Tabz @NinyeTabz]

FREE THE PRESS!
FREE NTV!
FREE DAILY MONITOR!
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
FREE DR. MIRIA MATEMBE!
FREE UGANDA!

NO ONE SHOULD BE COERCED TO APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT THEY DID NOT DO!

[Barbie Kyagulanyi @BarbieItungoK]

“When a dog barks at a leopard, it has a master hiding behind the bushes” Kikuyu saying!

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Uganda's leading media outlets say they under 'military siege' https://t.co/qbp6vwmfO7