EDITORIAL: Uganda needs to have an honest conversation
"The lingering stench of the 1970s, however, can only be banished if the country grasps how the possibility of lightning striking twice managed to gain traction." https://t.co/XTxrGXxFZj
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QUOTE: "Freedom of speech is a right of the people and not a favour from the [Ugandan] government."- Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at UNLF public rally. Uganda Times, February 28, 1980
#JournalismIsNotAcrime#BoldVoices
Wait, Gen Muhoozi kidnapped Elias Lukwago just to show his power because he wanted to serve him papers, and then released him because his wife said so? We're doomed as a country.
HON. ERIAS LUKWAGO & THE 10 POINT PROGRAMME OF THE NRM::
It's been a long 24 hours since the arrest & detention of @EriasLukwago. The @PoliceUg is silent so I will not volunteer speculation as to the cause of his arrest. It is the reaction by Ugandans that I write this THREAD..!
And you find a fool saying muhoozi is humble...mbu he doesn't even move in a convoy with lead cars!!! Stupid...which humble human feeds on Human's blood?
Weโll not reshare the torture images of @EriasLukwago, as to do so would be to further the interest of the folks carrying out the unlawful actions and to perpetuate his undignified and humiliating treatment.
Weโll say, though, that such actions are a daylight manifestation of the state of our country, captive to the shallow interest of a small clique to whom the law is a suggestion, rather than a command.
You humiliate the man, torture him, but youโll never match the power of his ideas; the high moral grounds on which he stands will be a summit you will only glance from afar.
Weโd demand that he be set free or taken to court through a lawful process if he has committed any crime, but i doubt youโll heed to such calls. It is out of your grapes. So we will only ask that when you have satisfied your cheap desires, leave him alive to return to his family, cause, and country. Heโll meet and vanquish you in the arena of ideas, law, and morality.