B. Bernard

Journalist
Scout
Parent
And a human right activist

[B. Bernard @barigyeb]

Parliament is still a crime scene. @BalaamBarugahar

[B. Bernard @barigyeb]

@Kusaasirarita Come and check it

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@MatandaAndrewCB Going in

[Abel Bizimana @biziabby]

My brother @DaudiKabanda is an MP of a constituency that has majority voters as #Bafumbira. He is also an influential person in PLU. When I called his number, he demonstrated that a man who has been a 10-year time governor of Kisoro is not that important. That is below the belt punch. But let him be good for PLU so that we remain wise and relevant to politics and the progress of Uganda. My country is not a home of dreams of vanity. Citizens wait on us to improve conditions, but not to fight wars of unitile. I am concerned that my brother is being used to do sanitation issues of PLU not taking advantage of his position to improve Bafumbira in Mubende.

Take note that your mentor AAA was more close to power than you but now is far. Being overzelous for PLU ambitions should nor crowd the promises you made to your voters. None of the poor voters in your constituency sent you to work for PLU and if you must work for it, let the outcomes benefit the electorate. Time will come and very soon when you will fall out of favour of power. In your compound, your voters will ask what you did for them and not what you did to PLU. We the PlU are aware of where power lies. Use your positinon and improve the condition of the lives of your voters which is dare.

When you look good for being a toilet paper, you will find yourself on the toilet paper server. Take it from me your philosopher.

[B. Bernard @barigyeb]

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@NCLINTON09 @KagutaMuseveni @mkainerugaba @Nyinancweende U mean Gaddafi didnt have them. How about Bashir so dont just talk

[B. Bernard @barigyeb]

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[B. Bernard @barigyeb]

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[KIIZA ERON @kiizaeron]

MUSEVENI'S BESIGYE VERDICT BEFORE TRIAL

On the evening of 4th July 2026, President Yoweri Museveni addressed the nation. His address’s centre of gravity was the treason trial of Dr. Kizza Besigye and his co-accused, presently pending before the High Court in Criminal Session No. 0335 of 2025.

In the course of that address, the President pronounced upon the guilt of the accused, upon their entitlement to bail, and upon the burden of proof — all before a single witness has been tested. The trial has not begun. The verdict has been broadcast.

What the President Said:

1. Men on remand, he described as "the arrested opposition law-breakers."

2. They "may not get bail because they threaten the security of the witnesses."

3. Dr. Besigye, claimed Museveni, "has been refusing trial, misusing the legal system, where he has got opportunity to prove his innocence."

4. He characterised recent security operations as "long overdue actions to fill those gaps" — gaps he identified as persisting within, among other institutions, the Judiciary.

5. The defence function was disparaged by President Museveni as "the tragic-comic practice of the defence dedicating itself to obscuring the facts," conducted by "actors in wigs."

6. Museveni approvingly narrated wartime executions following, and in substitution for, judicial process as "balanced justice."

Why this matters:

The President abolishes the presumption of innocence. To call men on remand "law-breakers" is to declare their guilt. Article 28(3)(a) of the 1995 Constitution guarantees the presumption of innocence until proved guilty or upon a plea of guilty. International standards are equally plain: public authorities must refrain from statements affirming guilt before conviction.

Bail is a judicial question, not an executive one. Article 23(6) reserves bail to judicial discretion. Whether an accused is likely to interfere with witnesses is evidentially determined by a judge. It is not a conclusion to be broadcast from the Executive. The presidential address advances a normative claim that bail ought not to exist in such cases. That is an argument for amending Article 23(6); it is not an interpretation of it.

He attacks and inverts the burden of proof. To say the accused "has got opportunity to prove his innocence" does not merely offend Article 28(3)(a). It inverts the foundational premise of the criminal law. By Article 44(c), the right to a fair hearing is non-derogable: neither national security, nor witness protection, nor an appeal to "indigenous justice" is a lawful qualification of it.

A parallel enforcement authority is announced. The head of the Executive states that the security forces are supplying a deficiency in the courts. That is more than criticism of the Judiciary. It is the announcement of an authority operating in substitution for it. There is no version of the rule of law that survives such a proposition.

The right to a defence is constitutionally guaranteed. The privilege against self-incrimination arises under Article 28(11); the right to counsel of one's choice under Article 28(3)(d)–(e). These are not procedural indulgences. They are guarantees which the President swore under Article 98(2) to uphold, and which Article 2 renders supreme over any competing conception of justice — indigenous or otherwise.

In litigation, the State's habitual defence to allegations of abuse is that any wrongdoing was the act of individual officers, unauthorised and unrepresentative. The address of 4th July 2026 forecloses that defence. What was previously denied as isolated excess has now been avowed as policy, from the highest office in the Republic.

Governments prevail over individual lawyers often enough, and Uganda's recent history furnishes examples. But no ruler in modern history has won a war against the legal profession as such.

Not in the long run. Time.

[B. Bernard @barigyeb]

@DaudiKabanda @FrankGashumba heheh3

[Brayo🇺🇬 @Ntalebrian22]

Kabanda said the corrupt will be arrested while standing beside the man who stole 168bn.

What a joke, 😂. If you're talking about arresting the corrupt, why are u saying so beside a master of corrupt. Start with him. 😂😂

[Ziga_lya_mese @_Huza01]

Both Erias Lukwago and Anita Among are sick. While Among is scheduled for treatment outside Uganda, Lukwago is being confined to die in Luzira prison, for being a lead counsel for Kizza Besigye . Can a peaceful and stable and prosperous country be built through such injustices?

[B. Bernard @barigyeb]

@JoshJosha1 0

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@dr_katumwa Stella

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@NazziwaViv29708 That lady was un gstring pliz

[Hon Betty Amongi @BettyAmongiMP]

Hon @DaudiKabanda face my husband @AkenaJimmyMP man to man. If you have any dirt on me, publish them & all the titles publicly on X, and prove your allegations. If I had any dirt, by now I would be in jail . And U, why has H.E @KagutaMuseveni refused 2 appoint U? @mkainerugaba

[B. Bernard @barigyeb]

Pathetic

[People's Front for Freedom - PFF @PFFUganda]

Justice Emmanuel Baguma has officially stripped away any remaining illusion of judicial independence in Uganda. In a shocking and reckless ruling, he dismissed the human rights enforcement application of Dr. Kizza Besigye and Hajji Obeid Lutale willfully ignoring the fact that the application was heard with absolutely no defense lawyers present.

For a politically fabricated case that carries a potential death sentence, Baguma has abandoned his judicial oath and competence to act as a state henchman.

Despite global condemnation, Baguma claims he is "not aware" that our leaders were illegally abducted from Nairobi, Kenya. He claims he "doesn't know" that they were first dragged to a military court martial before being dumped into civil courts. How can a High Court judge be this blind to blatant transnational repression?

Worse yet, he has aggressively ordered the trial to commence on July 13, 2026. This isn't a search for truth but a rushed choreographed political ambush.

Mr. Museveni recently claimed Dr. Besigye is "dodging trial." But when the head of the executive dictates the narrative and a dishonest judge swiftly executes the orders, how can anyone expect a fair trial? This is the absolute peak of state-sponsored lawlessness and institutional capture. It reveals the true and desperate face of the Museveni regime.

We remind Mr. Baguma and his handlers that Dr. Besigye’s life has been defined by unyielding defiance against tyranny. The accused have already rejected the court's absurd pressure to abandon their chosen counsels or accept state-appointed alternatives. They will not participate in a choreographed farce designed to legitimize their own persecution.

You can enforce a rule of raw power, but the citizens' fight for the genuine rule of law is stronger. This shamelessness will have an end. We will document and expose every single bit of this judicial persecution.

We stand firmly behind our leaders and call upon all Ugandans to recognize this case for what it is: the real authoritarian face of the Museveni regime.

#FreeLukwago
#FreeKizzaBesigye
#FreeHajjiObeid
#FreeSamMugumya
#FreeSamuelMakokha
#FreedomForAll

[B. Bernard @barigyeb]

@_kampalasfinest Catholic church through centenary bank

[Kyagulanyi Kabanda @omwavuatteguya]

Ironically it's Michael Mawanda who stole 168bn who is standing besides Daudi Kabanda as he threatens to arrest the corrupt
You guys are a bunch of jokers 🤣🤣
Mawanda Should never appear anywhere when talking about fighting corruption

[B. Bernard @barigyeb]

@wayeba81154 @BalaamBarugahar But can't be 600 pupils missing