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I am a staunch hater of the murderers, digital activist, human rights defender, self-made, entrepreneur,

[Kakwenza Rukirabashaija @KakwenzaRukira]

In the gray, debt-choked corners of the U.S, this conman known as Andy WilsonOrlando the pig, also masquerading as @artfulgyozy on twitter, dragged out a miserable existence of ripped and rickety bags, unpaid bills, and a life of a mouse that had long since stopped paying dividends. Then opportunity knocked in the form of Uganda. He discovered, with the sharp instinct of a professional liar, that fabricating stories against the country’s senior citizens like Besigye was not only easy but spectacularly lucrative.

So he stuffed what remained of his shredded luggage, fled the indebted wreckage of poor America, and planted himself in Uganda, where he now feeds comfortably on public taxes while lending his malodorous talents to Museveni’s project of framing Besigye.

This lumbering hippopotamus of deceit continues to wallow in the spoils for now. A blood clot is already circling, patient and inevitable.

[Batte Baker Lule @BakerbatteLule]

President @KagutaMuseveni says he has never ordered the torture of opponents. This is interesting. When SFC tortured @HEBobiwine in 2017, @KagutaMuseveni while passing out soldiers at Kaweweta said, he was "happy that Bobi Wine had been beaten properly." Let's say for argument's sake that he does not order the torture, what does he do to his security forces when they torture people? His CDF, his own fresh and blood has publicly celebrated the torture of Erias Lukwago, Eddie Mutwe etc, what has he done about it? Nothing!

[Gideon Nova Kwikiriza @KwikirizaNova]

They made sure neither of these two lawyers got anywhere near Dr. Besigye's courtroom, yet they are now forcing a trial on him.

If he is indeed the criminal you allege him to be, and you have all the evidence you claim to possess, why block his lawyers from representing him?

One thing I can assure Justice Baguma is that history has a way of remembering those who allow themselves to be used by those in power. We shall all be here to witness how your chapter ends.

Baguma...

[FRANCE 24 English @France24_en]

Eye on Africa - Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye rushed to hospital after court collapse
➡️ https://t.co/5Drakxqldh

[KIIZA ERON @kiizaeron]

The pistols… That is all CMI/guided @artfulgypzy imagination and fabrication.

[Kalundi Serumaga @NativeLandgrab]

@CultonScovia Simple formula (19 ‘-66-‘71-‘86):
1. Create an incident in Buganda.
2. Incite Baganda to react violently to it.
3. Accuse the violent Buganda of “tribalism”.
4. Mobilize political opinion to support massacring them to “restore order”.
5. Fill the emptied land with “citizens”.
Us:

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Fifty Peoples, One Voice - The Grammar of African State Capture
NGOZi: In an African country with 50peoples, languages, and cultures, how do you know the government has failed?
TUNDE: When a crucial meeting of the state's key institutions—cabinet, security chiefs, central bank, key parastatals, the highest court—can be conducted entirely in the president's own language.
NGOZI: Explain that test.
TUNDE: It shows the state has been captured by one national group's comfort zone. Institutions meant to belong to the whole nation become an extension of one community's private conversation. That's tribalism's practical face: not the violence that makes headlines, but the conversion of public life into a private ethnic club.
NGOZI: Some will say language is just practical – Kiswahili, English or French happens to be official, or the president's tongue is widely understood.
TUNDE: One of the reasons official languages exist so no single community monopolises the state. When decisive meetings abandon that shared language, the official language becomes mere public relations. Real power runs in a code that excludes most citizens by design. Competence and constitutional loyalty become secondary to ethnic fluency and networks. That's how tribalism hollows out institutions from within.
NGOZI: What follows?
TUNDE: Once the state's core operates in one language, appointments, contracts, and judicial decisions follow suit. Other groups rightly see the state as alien and extractive. Politics becomes an ethnic contest rather than one of ideas. Coups and electoral violence become symptoms—the real disease is a national state turned into an ethnic instrument.
NGOZI: So failure isn't measured only by GDP or coups, but by whether the state still belongs to all its peoples.
TUNDE: Exactly. When the capital's most important rooms function only in the president's mother tongue, the government has told 50 communities that just one truly owns the country. That's the clearest sign the state has failed its founding purpose.

[Brayo🇺🇬 @Ntalebrian22]

I was tortured and interrogated by Gen. Museveni's operatives on why i could represent a "muganda" in Court yet I'm a "munyankole" NUP's lawyer, Kenneth Kakuru.

OH no. 😭

[Jeffrey Smith @Smith_JeffreyT]

The obnoxious @adoniaayebare is getting thoroughly flamed and I'm here for it. #Uganda deserves better.

[Jeffrey Smith @Smith_JeffreyT]

You should be ashamed of yourself.

[michelawrong @michelawrong]

The Continent magazine has published an investigation I carried out alongside James Okong'o@okonjim exposing how Rwanda's government manipulates social media - secretly paying influencers - in support of the M23 occupation of DRC. Thank you, @CenterPulitzer , for your support.

[Bloomberg @business]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned Uganda’s crackdown on dissent, which it said was creating a climate of fear in the East African nation. https://t.co/vpvra6oiTP

[Jeffrey Smith @Smith_JeffreyT]

#Rwanda

"You are told as soon as you see someone criticize Kagame on social media, you have to go on the attack, to intimidate ... You are told: 'Try to have as many accounts as you can.'"

https://t.co/x1Tosi1qP0 @thecontinent_

[Agora Discourse @AgoraCFR]

AGORA DISCOURSE STATEMENT ON THE RELEASE OF NINE POLITICAL PRISONERS

Kampala, July 31, 2026

After nearly six years caged for their politics, the state has finally released nine @NUP_Ug supporters. This is not justice. This is a confession.

The nine men freed are: Yasin Ssekitoleko, also known as Machete; Kalanzi Sharif; Kintu Abdallah; Gibusiwa Abdukarim; Musa Kavuma; Joseph Muwonge; Jimmy Galukande; Patrick Mwase; and Umar Emma Kato.

They were arrested during the 2020–2021 election period and detained on charges of treachery and unlawful possession of ammunition or explosive devices before the General Court Martial. For nearly six years they remained in custody without a concluded trial.

We are told their release was conditional on pleading guilty. When the state extracts guilty pleas from people held for years without trial, it must prove those pleas were made freely, voluntarily, and with full knowledge of their legal consequences, not under duress.

“These men should never have spent nearly six years caged without a trial. Liberty is an inherent right, not a favor doled out by the state after years of lawless detention,” says @AAgather , Executive Team Lead at AGORA Discourse. “While we celebrate their freedom, we cannot blind ourselves to the grave injustice that preceded it. We demand absolute accountability for the system that stole six years of their lives.”

The government must account for their prolonged detention, ensure accountability for violations of their rights, and end practices that allow political detainees to be deprived of liberty without due process.

In January 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that civilians cannot be tried by military courts and directed that such cases be transferred to civilian courts. The government must fully implement that ruling.

This release comes against a wider pattern of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances. AGORA Discourse calls on the government to:
- Release all persons arbitrarily detained for exercising their rights to political participation, expression, and association;
- Disclose the whereabouts of missing Ugandans and account for those taken into state custody;
- Investigate unlawful detention and coercion, and hold responsible officials accountable; and
- End the prosecution of civilians in military courts and comply fully with the Supreme Court’s ruling.

AGORA Discourse calls on the government to uphold the rights to liberty, due process, and political participation for every Ugandan, regardless of political affiliation.
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersUg

[cynthiechoco @cynthiechoco]

If the goal is less negative publicity, then the practical step is to stop the human rights violations that generate it. Advise those in positions of power to stop posting pictures of people held in detention

Uganda is a country, not a military barracks. When the government violates the Constitution and basic human rights, people will speak and the world will speak. No amount of ambassadorial denial can erase that reality.

You do not have the capacity to shut the United Nations up. A few men with guns may be able to intimidate Ugandans inside the country, but they cannot intimidate the UN or the international community. As a government official you are protected from the same daily threats ordinary citizens face.

It would serve the country better if the government took accountability, acknowledged where things have gone wrong, and accepted that no government is perfect. Human rights violations have occurred. The constructive path is to acknowledge them, apologise, and release those who should not be held. Positive steps have already been taken like reopening NMG, more steps in that direction are welcome and should be built upon.

Continued denial and deflection will only isolate Uganda further. The country is already paying a reputational price for earlier decisions and we are now on level 4 travel advisory, adding more confrontation does not help. Sometimes the higher road is simply better for the nation’s image.

This tweet only further damages the country’s standing precisely because the violations have already been made public.

All citizens ask is to be treated with respect, granted freedom of expression, and not treated as enemies in our own country. We are Ugandans who want to live in peace without constant fear. When we simply use our voices, we should not be punished for it.

That is all.

[TOKO @GodwinTOKO]

Habibi, the Ugandan state needs to realise that @NUP_Ug is a reality that is here to stay, and will probably outlast it - or at least the ideals will. Political disagreements are a part of life, & will always be there.

So, what was the point in jailing these young Ugandans in their prime years for OVER six years only for them to head straight to NUP offices after release? Clearly, the use of force, illegal detention, abusing judicial procedures isn't achieving much. Otherwise, these people jailed for nothing more than being NUP would have renounced the party and rejected anything to do with it after SIX damned years in jail!

Methinks it’s time to try something more compassionate, like appealing to these people, listening to their grievances, and addressing them for the good of Uganda.

[Tarehe Sita @Tarehesiita]

Fellow Ugandans,

Even the United Nations Human Rights Chief has finally spoken out, openly denouncing the ongoing crackdown on dissent under criminal Museveni’s brutal junta.

He has condemned the gradual erosion of the rule of law, the increased military interference in civilian institutions, and the deliberate shrinking of civic space that is creating a climate of fear throughout our country.

Since the stolen January 2026 elections, many opposition leaders and supporters, journalists, and human rights defenders have faced enforced disappearance, torture, and arbitrary detention.

Ten leading civil society organisations have been suspended. Media outlets have been forced to close.

Military goons now freely invade civilian institutions while kangaroo courts and dungeons swallow anyone who dares speak truth. This is the real face of power-greedy, senile despot Museveni’s regime — a criminal junta built on blood, looting, and betrayal.

For over four decades this illegitimate octogenarian foreign tyrant has turned Uganda into his personal estate. Everything wrong in our country is the direct responsibility of criminal Museveni and the rotten system he created.

Enough is enough with Musevenism! Our country, Uganda, remains in the hands of criminals. The moment has come. Fellow Ugandans, rise up, organise, and liberate this nation from the grip of this murderous, disorderly, and failing regime now!

Uganda must be liberated!
#MuseveniMustGo

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Uganda is experiencing a growing climate of fear as increasing restrictions on fundamental freedoms leave opposition supporters, journalists, human rights defenders and civil society groups at heightened risk of abuse. https://t.co/GRHqPQvQIY

[coffee brown Ferdinand bolstraat @katoGordon]

@JKabuleta The dude is hypochondriac.

[cynthiechoco @cynthiechoco]

I’m glad the UN is finally adding its voice against the abuse of freedom of press, media and dissent in Uganda.

You’ve already investigated and seen what is happening. Now stop at statements. Move to real action. Publicly impose travel bans and asset freezes on the specific public figures and officials responsible for cracking down on dissent and attacking journalists and media freedom. That is the kind of pressure that actually hurts them.

Yes, NMG is open again, but people are still abducted and locked up just for reporting or speaking out. Those rights must be respected, full stop.

You’ve done your part by speaking. Now the rest is also on us as Ugandans. We have to keep demanding, keep speaking, and refuse to be silent. If enough of us speak up at the same time and become the media ourselves, the government will have no choice but to respect the people’s voice.