Atuhaire Edwin

Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

[Jordan Tumwesigye @JTumwesigye]

@ZeeroBrain Let’s be patient. Maybe they are making an apology dance video as we speak.

[Atuhaire Edwin @atuedi]

@TonyNatif @apollo_morgan @mtnug Those folks are mute like a graveyard, with no communication, even on their Twitter handle. I had to drive all the way to a service centre just to be told that there is a network problem!! Sitaani ayina effujo mwana 🤦‍♂️

[DBwambale @TheMutaD]

To go back to exile, a third time, is a a prospect many 70-year olds never thought possible

[KIIZA ERON @kiizaeron]

This memo documents repression thus:

1. A legal case is being run through military channels. The memo sits on Office of the President / Operation Wealth Creation letterhead, signed by the OWC Chief Coordinator (Gen. Salim Saleh / Akandwanaho), and is addressed to the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and UPDF structures. A criminal prosecution and “the Lukwago issue” are being coordinated by the military and the President’s office — not by independent prosecutors or courts. This is proof of judicial harassment.

2. The author has pronounced the victims of this judicial harassment, including @kizzabesigye1 and @EriasLukwago_ , guilty in advance. The phrase “Dr Besigye and any of his accomplices” treats people who have not been convicted as criminals already. The memo’s author has no regard for the presumption of innocence.

3. The memo’s author casts the the Minister of Justice as a spokesman, not a judge of justice. He instructs Hon. Mao to “give a sense of perspectives to the public” and “respond to concerns.” He deploys the custodian of justice is to manage public messaging and defend the prosecution/persecution. The justice ministry is reduced to a PR arm of the military operation against Besigye and Lukwago. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

4. The letter and spirit of the memo has turned the human-rights machinery against its own purpose. Mao is named because he chairs the Cabinet Standing Committee on Human Rights and coordinates JLOS. The very official meant to check abuses must “explain actions by state security agencies against certain individuals and organisations”. The “certain individuals and organisations” are the victims of judicial harassment and political persecution. Besigye, Lukwago, Lutale… 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

5. The note admits the civilian justice system is downstream of the security agencies. The note says Mao “may not be privy to some military & intel agencies” and “needs a briefing.” In other words, real decision-making over these cases sits with opaque military/intelligence bodies, and the civilian Justice Minister must be brought up to speed on what they have done. The justice system is subordinate to the security apparatus. This is unconstitutional but it is the obtaining reality.

6. It is coordinated from the top down. The chain from the President’s office to the CDF, copied to Defence (MODVA), Justice (MOJCA) and the Prime Minister (OPM), shows a whole-of-government effort organised around a single set of targets. Orchestrated persecution rather than independent legal process is on full display.

7. The closing further betrays the mindset. Signing off a supposedly neutral instruction with “Aluta continua” (“the struggle continues”) portrays the matter as a political fight against adversaries, not the impartial administration of the law.

The memo flags this as “the Lukwago issue,” but the body speaks only of Besigye and “accomplices”. Hon. Lukwago is one of those swept into the “accomplices” framing. There are many more Ugandans the memo frames as accomplices and the military has the list.

[David Soita Masinde. @davimasinde]

The closure of NTV and the other NMG news outlets didn't quite register with me at first. It wasn't until later in the evening, when I settled in to catch up on current affairs through NTV Akawungezi, that the reality hit.

For the second time in less than 12 hours, I was greeted by the same sight, a dark, blank screen. It felt like staring at those old DOS-era computer monitors from the mid-1980s, waiting for something that simply wasn't there.

That moment made me realize just how central NTV has become to Uganda's media landscape. Whether people admit it or not, I suspect even those working in competing media houses regularly tune in to NTV for news, current affairs, and perspective. Sometimes, you only appreciate the role an institution plays when its absence suddenly becomes impossible to ignore.

[sedrack Tinka📚⌚ @SedrackTinka]

Sue Nsibirwa,
CEO_NTV Uganda

[Rukh-Shana Kitaka @RukhShana]

How do we raise courageous children in a world that punishes truth?

When speaking up at home invites violence, speaking up in the workplace results in sidelining, speaking up in public spaces makes one a target, and speaking up as the media results in a total blackout?

How do we raise a courages generation that fights for truth 🤔?

[The.PR.Guy @kezio_musoke]

Lest we forget! Nation Media Group is listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange.

[The.PR.Guy @kezio_musoke]

Gagging a publicly listed media company like NMG triggers severe financial, regulatory, and constitutional consequences.

While the erratic general might care less about the direct crippling of its editorial mandate … there are implications on investor confidence. Regulatory rules for publicly traded assets mandate public disclosures that can result in delisting, shareholder lawsuits, and capital flight.

Terrible PR for Uganda …. dilemma for CMA and USE.

[Nicholas Opiyo (Pronouns He/Him) @nickopiyo]

Our prayer is that you come back safe and alive, for we know you will tell your story eloquently and boldly.

You have never failed to stand for the things you believe in. Your contribution to the democratization of our country, your unrelenting pursuit of the rights of women, and the girl child will not be diminished by the cowardly acts of your detractors.

Your name is indelibly inked in history and our hearts in ways that your abusers can only envy and therefore seek to destroy you. They may disappear you, but never your ideas. Theirs is brute hollow and backward force.

Those who ingratiate themselves with your abusers know in the deep recesses of their thoughts and hearts, too well, that you have done nothing wrong.

[Anthony Natif @TonyNatif]

On the broader front, if one public official can shut down a multi-million dollar enterprise with just one tweet, what does that communicate to foreign capital?

[Anthony Natif @TonyNatif]

Shutting down NTV and Monitor is actually a sign of government failure at the strategic comms game more than it is an indication of the media house’s supposed bias.

There’s no government on earth that has successfully built elite consensus by jailing or shutting down its critics

[Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga @rkabushenga]

Revenue is Vanity. Profit is Sanity. Cash is Reality. Just read that off the WhatsApp profile of an Indian businessman I just met🤣

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

@ekiggundu Even if he threatened to crush God they would cheer. Human intelligence is overrated

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

ICYMI --- Monitor at 30: It will die with Uganda’s deepest secrets

"We got in big trouble. During the trial, one of the key state witnesses was our source! So, we stood there in the dock, him across in the witness stand saying we were liars." | Read more👇🏽 https://t.co/v6oIBPnvV1

[Daron Bartlett @bartlettdaron]

The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) is the body supposed to shut down media houses, not the UPDF.

​The fact that @UCC_Official may not even know what to charge @NationMediaGrp with is going to be funny.

​The correct procedure should be for the UCC to summon NMG, state the offense committed, and then proceed to close them down. Because this wasn't done, they now have to scramble to figure out which broadcasting laws were breached just to justify the closure.

​On any normal day, the UCC would have issued a statement by now.

[Felix Kitaka @TheMutambuze]

This is very irresponsible. What happens to the employees of those institutions? What happens to the suppliers?

If preachers can’t speak against these things then they are spineless and complacent.

The economy is performing poorly and people are already struggling, and then you add more burdens to them?

That’s the problem of having power without the experience of life.

You don’t understand that without a job, a person is going to struggle to pay their rent, school fees for their children and take care of their retired parents.

Uganda, where are your leaders?

[Jinja's Pablo Escobar @Ozelle_Kayom]

This so deep . 😩

[Alan Kasujja @kasujja]

I see you!

You are not absent.

You are fighting.

Struggling so that your kids don’t have to.

You’re carrying people who don’t even know they are being carried.

May God grant you the breakthrough that will allow you to spend more time with your kids.

May their mother be your shelter, not another battle.

May your children, when they grow up and understand the price of things, look back and say —

Taata yatulwanirira.

Our father fought for us.

Happy Father’s Day my guy!