Alex Okello Ouma

A Development professional, husband, and proud father. Interested in politics, peace and justice.

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

@AndrewMwenda Instead of trying to convict Besigye in the media, why not let the courts do their job? In this age of AI and deepfake technology, anyone can fabricate an audio or video. If the government has real evidence, let them present it before a competent and impartial judge. Otherwise, all this looks like an attempt to manipulate public opinion.

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

This is an AI generated image reflecting the ongoing criticism that some Ugandans have raised about governance, accountability and human rights following the recent arrest of former Kampala Mayor and Dr. Kiiza Besigye’s lawyer, EriasLukwago. Do you agree or disagree?

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

@regesa Some Ugandans are still waiting for “transition,” but I’d argue it’s already unfolding right before our eyes. When the Army Commander carries himself with such arrogance and apparent impunity, it points to a troubling future for 🇺🇬. This ain’t progress. It’s a step backwards.

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

@TimKalyegira The interview is quite telling.

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@nickopiyo Wapwoyo lacwec omera

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

@WinnieKiiza Its a shame. This is what greed looks like. Our politicians feel so entitled.

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

@SpireJim @sdkafeero This is really wrong and sad. What were these women's crime? Couldn't they be brought before the law? Are those in power, this blood thirsty that they cannot show the smallest mercy to women?

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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@ubctvuganda Are we rewarding real service or carefully curating a succession plan?

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

@goodhe4rted @KagutaMuseveni @AndrewMwenda @AnitahAmong @HEBobiwine The 11th @UgParliament was captured by the Executive. These MPs benefit materially from the system so we can’t expect them to dismantle it. In fact, they don’t have the moral authority to do it. We should unlearn the helplessness that nothing will change no matter what we do.

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

@deuce_mercy Enforced disappearance is one of the gravest human rights violations. It’s a typical characteristic of authoritarian governments. The real intention is to spread fear and break communities. It’s a demonstration of weakness not strength.

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

@SpireJim There were boys back in the day who knew how to get two feuding parties agitated to the point of a physical fight. They would ask the other side; did you hear what s/he said? s/he has insulted your mother. Then tell the other party the same thing. It would ignite a fight fast.

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

@AfrikanFuturist @regesa They wouldn’t without a @UNEB_UG certificate. I’m not against national exams. I feel that the current system is overdue for a reform. At present, UNEB is too centralized, not transparent about their grading and there aren’t clear national standards. The system needs urgent reform

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

@joshjeje2 Can’t agree more

[Justice Esther Kitimbo Kisaakye @JusticeKisaakye]

Message to the Chairperson and Members of the Uganda Electoral Commission @UgandaEC

Justice Byabakama,

On 17th January 2026, you orally declared the final results of the 2026 Uganda Presidential Elections.

Article 61(d) of the Constitution of Uganda requires the Electoral Commission to ascertain, publish and declare in writing under its seal the results of the elections. Announcements made through public media do not satisfy this Constitutional requirement.

This requirement must be read together with Article 1 of the Constitution, which vests sovereignty in the people of Uganda and mandates that all authority be exercised in their name and for their benefit.

I have checked the official Electoral Commission website https://t.co/BFOmumRpZR and the https://t.co/yA9BEB2fcT which publishes the Uganda Gazette and have not found any publication of the 2026 Presidential Election results.

As the body entrusted with the responsibility and which conducted these elections, the Electoral Commission is required to provide the people of Uganda with clear answers to the following questions:

1. How did the Electoral Commission ensure there was no ballot stuffing and multiple voting in light of the nationwide failure of the biometric machines?

2. What steps has the Electoral Commission taken to address videos online showing its officials, members of security forces, and other civillians ticking multiple ballots and/or stuffing multiple ballots at different polling stations or at other venues?

3. How did the Electoral Commission ascertain the results of the Presidential Elections within 48 hours in the absence of duly signed and transmitted Declaration of Results (DR) Forms from each polling station?

4. How were the Presidential Election results transmitted to the National Tallying Centre during the nationwide internet shutdown, and what verifiable audit trail exists to demonstrate the integrity, chain of custody, and authenticity of those results?

5. Has the Electoral Commission published the 2026 Uganda Presidential Election results for each polling station?

6. If so, where has the Electoral Commission published these results and when was that publication made?

7. If the publication of these results has not been made, why has the Electoral Commission not complied with this clear mandatory Constitutional requirement, 10 days after your announcement? Such a publication would also enable Ugandan citizens who wish to access these results, to do so.

8. What steps is the Electoral Commission taking to recover the 69 million United States Dollars of taxpayers’ money expended on non-functioning biometric machines, including any civil recovery actions against suppliers and Electoral Commission officials involved in the procurement, approval and testing of this equipment prior to their dispatch to the respective polling stations?

I am asking these questions as a citizen of Uganda and taking into account that the Electoral Commission bears a positive and continuing duty under our Constitution to conduct elections that are not only free and fair but which are also transparent and verifiable through the results declared.

Where access to information has been restricted as was the case with the nationwide internet shutdown, the obligation to provide verifiable quantitative and qualitative data rests squarely with the Electoral Commission as the declaring authority. Transparency in such circumstances is not discretionary. It is a constitutional obligation.

The burden to prove compliance with its constitutional obligations rests with the Electoral Commission and not with the candidates who contested in the elections, the Ugandans who voted, those who opted not to vote, or those who were rendered unable to vote.

Elections belong to the people, not to those who administer them.

FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY

Justice Dr. Esther Kitimbo Kisaakye.
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda. January 27, 2026

cc: The People Of Uganda

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

Interesting times.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WOW!!!

Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South:

"We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

Their crimes, flying the national flag.

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

Ugandan soldiers beat up young men and force them to remove the Ugandan flag from a pole. The flag has become a symbol of support for Bobi Wine, and of resistance to President Museveni.

His erratic son Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the country’s military chief

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

😭 my beloved country

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

Oh Uganda!

[Alex Okello Ouma @oumapaokello]

@PaLabeja Wod Maa, Gulu mito Swagger ni.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

"When the mayor has swagger, the city has swagger" – said former New York City Mayor Eric Adams (surprisingly). Adanech Abebe has been the mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, since September 2021, the first woman to hold the position since its establishment in 1910. And goodness, she has given Addis true swagger.