Godfrey Basaija

IT Specialist, I like the way technology has made communication so easy today & how society has transformed due to quick access to information.

[Nyanjura Doreen Omutatina @DoreenNyanjura]

Dr @kizzabesigye1 and Hajji Obeid Lutale return to court tomorrow, Wednesday 29th July at 9:00 AM. I start getting headache days before Justice Emmanuel Baguma’s court. Tomorrow is another day of mental torture. When will this injustice end? 💔🇺🇬

[Kakwenza Rukirabashaija @KakwenzaRukira]

Dear Justice Emmanuel Baguma, I have followed your conduct in the @kizzabesigye1 proceedings with growing curiosity. Every time I watch the proceedings, I ask myself at what point does a judge stop presiding over proceedings and quietly begin assisting one side? Nobody doubts your legal education because you know the Constitution cover to cover, the Criminal Procedure Code Act, the Trial on Indictments Act, the principles of natural justice, etcetera. You know that a judge is required not merely to be impartial but to appear impartial. A courtroom is the one place where even the loser should leave believing that he was heard fairly. Once that confidence disappears, the court building remains a courthouse only in architecture but in practice, a Rwakitura Kraal..

Dr. @RKirunda recently made an observation that every one of us is one decision away from needing a trial. Imagine your son, daughter, brother or wife standing in the dock accused of an offence carrying the death penalty. You know they are innocent, or perhaps you simply know that they deserve a fair hearing before the law decides otherwise. You enter the courtroom and discover that the judge conducts proceedings exactly as you have conducted yours. He interrupts one side with impatience and indulges the other with enthusiasm. He treats constitutional objections as administrative inconveniences. He behaves as though the accused is already halfway to conviction and the remaining task is simply to complete the paperwork.
Would you walk out of that courtroom praising the administration of justice? I suspect you would spend every waking hour condemning it. The uncomfortable truth about judging is that every decision eventually comes home. Judges spend years believing they are judging strangers. One day they discover they have been writing the rules that will govern their own families. You occupy one of the highest judicial offices in the country and that office was created to restrain executive power, not to accompany it the way @AndrewMwenda sycophantically follows @mkainerugaba like a groom of the stool in Tudor England of 1540’s. A judge owes loyalty to the Constitution not the appointing authority. Thomas More is remembered five centuries after his death, not because he pleased the King but because there came a point where pleasing the King and obeying the law became incompatible. He chose the law. Henry VIII had the throne. Thomas More inherited history. You may think that the office you hold makes you indispensable. It does not. What happens when every person appointed to the Bench remembers that judicial independence is not a slogan recited during swearing-in ceremonies but a daily inconvenience imposed upon those in power?

Many political prosecutions would collapse before lunch and that possibility explains why genuine judicial independence frightens every executive that prefers obedience to legality. Every evening you return home. Your wife knows she is married to a judge. Your children know their father is a judge. Friends introduce you proudly as "My Lord." It is a distinguished title. I simply wonder what image accompanies it inside your own home. When your children ask how court went today, do you tell them that you defended the Constitution, or do you tell them that you managed another politically sensitive file without upsetting the people who appointed you?

Judicial decisions remain, Law students study them, historians quote them, future judges distinguish or follow them and grandchildren eventually discover them. Your judgments will outlive the despot who signed your instrument of appointment. That is both the privilege and the burden of judicial office.
Rukirabachwezi

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@DrMorgans01 By the way! And where's his friend Owek Mathias?

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@kyakundwa Jesus Christ! Just because someone has challenged you. Dictators will never see heaven.

[Janice Kyakundwa, PhD @kyakundwa]

Thats why.......

[KIIZA ERON @kiizaeron]

Star treason witness against @kizzabesigye1 exposed as torture-training mercenary.

The prosecution’s sole first-hand witness in the treason case against Col. (Rtd) Dr Kizza Besigye and other Museveni critics is a Miami-based mercenary previously exposed for being paid to train police in torture.

Andrew “Orlando” Wilson (@artfulgypzy) — a former British soldier profiled by Miami New Times in 2013 as the “mystery man barking orders” in Mexico’s notorious police torture videos — is the source of the alleged overseas meetings, funding and covert recordings underpinning the charges against the accused (Museveni’s political rivals).

In the 2008 León scandal, a trainee was waterboarded in a rat-infested pit until he went into shock; Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch condemned the footage. Wilson and a partner earned about US$16,000 for the three-week torture course.

Besigye and other Ugandans now stand trial for their lives on the word of this state paid informant with a history of training torture, who walks free after fabricating evidence. @EriasLukwago_

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@Seraphinaf5 71

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@kyamageroandrew A click of selfish Ugandans who behave lik e immortals.

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@ShimonAine Good morning to you.

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@samrac92 1050

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@HaYoMiDe_ 2

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@Mishi_2210 I am 9

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@HEBobiwine All the best brother

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@Iamrachaelbae So sorry,may God comfort you and your family?

[DR MORGANS @DrMorgans01]

Nakawa Division- Let’s Get This Done Today ✅

[DR MORGANS @DrMorgans01]

We are already heading out to pick Nubian Li’s win

We bring it home

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@martinssempa Happy birthday Pastor

[Uganda Union of Seventh day Adventists @UgandaAdventist]

Congratulations to the newly elected leadership of North Buganda Field (NBF) in the 3rd session held today at Katikamu SDA secondary School. May God bless their ministry through out this period of 2025-2030.

[Godfrey Basaija @gbasaija]

@Hellenistic16 Many trials and temptations.

[Cleverly 💐 @Cleverlydey4u]

This white guy from America is still out here giving free haircuts to Nigerians. He even cut the hair of a 15-year-old named Godswill.❤️👏