President @KagutaMuseveni met leaders of the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, where they discussed issues of national importance, including peace, unity, socio-economic transformation, and the role of religious institutions in supporting national development.
28th June 2026 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
STATEMENT ON THE CLOSURE AND MILITARY SIEGE OF UGANDAN MEDIA HOUSES AFFILIATED TO THE NATION MEDIA GROUP
The National Unity Platform strongly condemns the military’s arbitrary closure and continuing siege of @ntvuganda, The @DailyMonitor, @sparktvuganda, @DembeFm, and other media houses under the @NationMediaGrp that started at dawn today Sunday, 28th June 2026.
The closure, enforced outside any known legal framework, is a primitive attack on press freedom and the citizens’ right to access information -- moreover by a regime now committing even worse tyranny than what it supposedly sought to end when it waged the 1980s war.
We stand in solidarity with the journalists, editors, staff, leadership and audience of the affected media houses, and empathize with all who are going to bear the related economic losses.
We urge all citizens and institutions, particularly political actors and members of the civil society, to prepare for increased repression in the coming days owing to the deepening constitutional crisis in the country.
Historically, the determination of Ugandans to be free has outlasted every regime that thought it was powerful enough to stay forever or clever enough to mutate into another. We remain confident that this time, too, the people’s aspirations for a free and democratic country shall prevail.
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.@FrankGashumba: I think power still belongs to the People of Uganda; what I see in the country, I think we need a round table and identify what went wrong and how to rectify it because everyone now is living in fear; they don’t know what will happen tomorrow.
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For a long time, the public narrative was that the Muhoes was not responsible for these violations and that his threats were just jokes However now that a media house has been closed down for nothing more than telling the truth it proves that freedom of expression is under threat
Right now families live in fear of disappearance & torture People are being taken without explanation This only breaks trust Bt we document & demand accountability for all these actions. One thing I know freedom is fragile for everyone, even those who think they are above the law
They are behind bars not because they committed crimes, but because they chose to stand for justice and stand with the oppressed. Injustice puts the innocent in chains while the guilty walk free. @PoliceUg@MODVA_UPDF@KagutaMuseveni
Free our people
@PoliceUg@MODVA_UPDF Free Tabz immediately. If he is suspected of any crime bring him before court of law so he can answer the charges fairly abducting any citizen and denying them due process is illegal unconstitutional and against the rule of law.
@HCounsel23134 Human rights aren’t about ‘hiding’ they’re the basic protections everyone gets, even when accused of breaking the law. That’s what stops punishment from becoming torture, and justice from becoming revenge. Abduction without trial violates the same laws we’re meant to uphold.
One day the @DailyMonitor will break the news and it will be in uppercase UGANDA’S HITLER DEAD and the streets will be full and in an hour the papers will be sold out.
The days of family rule are numbered. You cannot run a country like your personal home. You cannot keep arresting people, torturing them, and expect to escape justice. One day, Ugandans will demand accountability and those responsible will answer for their crimes @KagutaMuseveni
In the 21st century, human abductions are still happening with impunity. Until we stand up together and say enough is enough to this era of fear and family rule, no one is safe not our children, not any of us. Silence only protects the oppressor. Speaking out protects us all.
We had a productive conversation with members of the @NUP_Ug's Seattle Chapter in Washington State about the state and fate of our motherland, Uganda. Honored by the warm welcome we received, and the comrades’ resilient commitment to the struggle for freedom back home. We shall overcome!