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HE Bobi wine's letter to Ugandans being used by the state. ON THE WANGADYAS OF THIS WORLD For a long time, Museveni’s regime has relied on individuals occupying positions of public authority to execute its political agenda, at the cost of justice and the rights of fellow Ugandans. To ensure regime survival, many have traded their integrity for power, privilege, or protection, only to discover that the very system they served has no loyalty to them whatsoever. We have seen this pattern repeatedly: Kakooza Mutale, Abdallah Kitatta, Kale Kayihura, Peter Elwelu, Anita Among, and now, apparently, Mariam Wangadya, who has reportedly resigned as Chairperson of the Uganda Human Rights Commission after she was reminded that she’s not one of them. Whatever the reasons behind her resignation, I think she has taken what could be her final opportunity to reclaim what is left of her dignity. The tragedy here is not one individual’s downfall. It is the fact that this cycle keeps repeating itself. People are appointed, empowered, and celebrated, not to serve the public but to serve the regime, many times at the citizens’ painful cost. They become instruments of repression against their own people. Then, after years of unquestioning loyalty, they are dumped the moment they cease to be politically useful. The regime abandons them without hesitation. They are isolated and left to face public anger, legal consequences, and the judgment of history, alone, while those who gave them orders quietly move on to recruit the next willing enforcer. It is difficult to feel sympathy for them because this fate has never been a secret. Museveni’s regime has consistently demonstrated that loyalty to him is purely transactional. Yesterday’s trusted enforcer eventually becomes today’s forgotten casualty. Yet each new generation of enablers convinces itself that it will somehow be treated differently. It never is. That is why every public servant should remember that offices are temporary but reputations are permanent. Power expires. Titles disappear. Official protection ends. What remains is your name, your conscience, and the legacy of the choices you made while you had authority. Before accepting the role of persecuting, silencing, or oppressing fellow Ugandans for political survival or personal gain, ask yourself one question: what will remain when the office and the power is gone? The Museveni regime does not protect its enablers forever. It simply replaces them. Kyagulanyi Ssentamu 13th July 2026