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WE HAVE FAITH.
WE HAVE FAITH.
WE HAVE FAITH.
WE HAVE FAITH.
WE HAVE FAITH.
WE HAVE FAITH.
WE HAVE FAITH.
WE HAVE FAITH.
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WE HAVE FAITH.
WE HAVE FAITH.
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WE HAVE FAITH.
Seeing everyone come out in such massive numbers even in fear, is so powerful. We hope and pray everyone makes it home safe, we honour and remember all the brave souls weโve lost. They did not die in vain. Their fight lives on in us๐ฐ๐ชโ๐ฝ
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Let me start by condemning in the strongest terms the barbaric and retrogressive actions of the police at the National Drama Festival in Nakuru. It is a shame to the Government which has a Ministry responsible for Sports,the Arts and Creative Economy.
When a government starts trembling at the sight of schoolgirls performing a play, then we must all pause and ask: what exactly is it running from?
The events that unfolded in Nakuru, where Butere Girls High School students were tear-gassed for showcasing a piece of theatre, mark a dark and shameful chapter in our national story. What threat does a group of uniformed girls pose to the mighty State? None, unless truth itself has become unbearable to hear.
Our young people are not the enemy. They are the soul of our nation. Their voices must not be silenced; their creativity must not be crushed under the boots of fear. A country that cannot handle a high school play has no business preaching democracy or claiming to uphold constitutional freedoms.
This regime must understand that it was not elected to intimidate children. It was put in place to protect them, to nurture them, to create an environment where their talents and ideas can thrive, not to tear-gas them into silence.
@citizentvkenya@LuluHassan The president should just resign. He has made God to be mocked all over saying He chose him. God can't give this kind of leadership with such a strive to avenge and watch atrocities happen!
Justin Muturi โ Waziri, Utumishi wa Umma: Economy for who? The country should shelve all other businesses they have to discuss this matter of murder and extra-Judicial killings #SemaNaCitizen@LuluHassan
I thank all people who came in thousands to bid farewell to our brother, HON. SSEGIRINYA MUHAMMAD.
Below is my message to the mourners!
Ladies and gentlemen,
Fellow mourners!
We gather today, to say farewell to a great man.
A man who rose from the poorest of backgrounds to become the talk of Kampala, the talk of Buganda, and the talk of Uganda and beyond.
A man who was small in stature but with a very big heart.
A man who did not attain so much education and yet possessed great knowledge. He was not an economist and yet he understood the economy of the boda boda rider, the mutembeyi, the woman in the market.
A man who joked a lot and yet was very serious on the causes concerning our country.
A man who came from right here in Kadugala village and yet died as a national hero.
We gather to say farewell to a self-made man. A man who rose through the ranks to become a famous Member of Parliament, and yet did not allow fame to get to his head. Even when he rose to the highest positions in society, he remained the humble Ssegirinya.
Unlike many politicians who love to be addressed with big titles, even when they're doing nothing or working against the people, Ssegirinya never cared about titles. You would call him Ssegi and he was fine with it.
That is the man we're sending off today.
Hon. Ssegirinya said that I should speak for five
hours at his funeral, but I am not even sure I can even take thirty minutes.
His dying wish however, meant so much to me. It meant the deep sense of trust that he had in me as his friend and leader. He trusted that I would speak the kind of words he would love to be said on his final day. It was very humbling to me that he said that even if no one else spoke, I should speak for all that time. But I know that Ssegirinya was loved by so many people, which is why I couldn't deny them the opportunity to speak about him.
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, today as we see Ssegirinya for the very last time, I will say everything for Ssegirinya and very little for myself.
This means that whoever has offended me as an individual and was expecting me to talk about you in any way, today youโre wrong.
Ssegirinya Mohammad โEddoboozi lye Kyebandoโ is a man I knew many years ago as a radio caller and later as a city councillor.
I had never met him personally until I was running for MP in Kyadondo East in 2017.
Among the many opposition politicians who fully supported me was Ssegirinya even when his party - then FDC - had a candidate.
It is then that we built a comradeship that, I hope, will last even for the next generations.
We shared so much in common with SSegirinya - born in villages before moving to the ghettos in the city. And how, like me, he did not dwell on that past but turned his life around. I believe that is why I understood him, and he understood me. Tubade twetegeela.
I would look into comrade Ssegirinya's eyes and know that even as he joked a lot, he was deeply concerned about the common people.
I saw his dreams and how determined he was to make them become real.
I saw how much he represented everything we are as common people.
In 2020, as we prepared for the 2021 election, we, as the People Power Movement, were faced with a test. It was a very tough test. We had the party's Organising Secretary, an incumbent MP, and other seasoned politicians interested in the Kawempe North seat. When the results from the ground survey came back, Ssegirinya scored over 80% from the responses of the people. The Organising Secretary lodged a petition, and we sent another team. The results came back the same way. We resisted all manner of attempts to overturn the results and insisted that we must follow People Power because that is our power. As I said the other day, some politicians came to me complaining. They asked how we could choose a riffraff over seasoned politicians with a lot of education.
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