Now that Rwaboogo is also crying for help in the media like any of us, now those who have been shouting leave First Family matters know the members of the first family. Stop fearing Scarecrows (Waringa) we are all variables. If Rwaboogo and I are BAKOPI, Rwabogo is a pro max. Afande just forgive Bagonza, he is a loyal cadre who was misled.
Erias Lukwago is not charged with treason. He is charged with misprision of treason — knowing of a treason and failing to report it. The State alleges that he knew that Dr. Kizza Besigye & others intended to commit treason, and neither reported them nor sought to stop them.
On 23 June 2026, the Makindye Chief Magistrate, Her Worship Sarah Anne Basemera, denied him bail on a single premise — that his release might compromise investigations. The court found his three sureties, all sitting Members of Parliament, substantial. It confirmed his fixed abode at Wakaliga. It accepted his documented illnesses. It made, in terms, “no finding whatsoever” that he had interfered, or intended to interfere, with anyone. Having cleared him on every point that ordinarily decides a bail application, it sent a visibly frail man back to Luzira — because investigations remain “ongoing and incomplete”, and a man of his influence might, at some future date, affect them.
That reason does not survive contact with the facts. It melts beside the fire of logic.
There are no ongoing investigations. The State says so itself, on the record of the High Court. It completed its treason investigations in May 2025. It committed the accused for trial in May 2025. It filed an amended indictment on 30 December 2025. It made full disclosure by 2 June 2026. It has pronounced itself ready to call witnesses, two of whom it claims stood waiting in court on 11 June 2026.
The treason Lukwago is charged with failing to report has therefore been investigated, indicted, disclosed, and now stands for trial before Justice Emmanuel Baguma. It is not a mystery the police are still unravelling. One cannot close an investigation, indict upon it, surrender one’s evidence and declare oneself ready to lead it before one judge — and in the same breath tell another court that one is still investigating whether a citizen ought to have reported it.
A gravely ill man belongs at home. In the High Court the DPP says the investigations are finished; in the Magistrate’s Court, unfinished. That is not prosecution. It is persecution.
As for “influence”: treating a lifetime of lawful public service — Senior Advocate, former Lord Mayor, chairman of the PFF — as a ground for fear inverts the presumption of innocence guaranteed by Article 28(3)(a) of the 1995 Constitution. The magistrate conceded that such distinction “should never be treated as grounds for punishment or discrimination”, then did precisely that.
Nor was Lukwago a bystander to the Besigye trial. He was one of its defence advocates. Soldiers seized him from his home in the early hours of 15 June 2026, days before he was due in court for the defence. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba publicly celebrated the abduction. The DPP charged him on 17 June 2026, after days of incommunicado detention. The mention of his case was fixed for 30 June 2026 — the very day the Besigye trial was to resume. The plain purpose and effect has been to remove Besigye’s advocate from the courtroom, and keep him out of it.
Strip away “national security” and “ongoing investigations”, and what remains is stark. A gravely ill man, whose specialists have recommended treatment abroad, sits in prison for failing to report a plot the State has already finished investigating and placed on trial — on the reasoning that it has not finished investigating it.
Courts and prosecutors should not play with a man’s precarious life. Luzira will not make him better, and the reason advanced for keeping him there is untrue. Uganda bleeds under the weight of impunity.
Lukwago should be free — not as an act of mercy, but as a matter of law and logic.
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