Polly Matovu

A mother, naturephotography, healthy advisor & a human rights activist. For god and my country Uganda 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬.

[Joel Ssenyonyi @JoelSsenyonyi]

This week on Thursday, I addressed MPs from the East African Legislative Assembly and other stakeholders who were meeting in Kampala.

I pointed out concerns like the deportation of Hon Martha Karua who holds an EAC passport and a certificate to practice law in Uganda currently.
I also talked about the challenges of cross border trade which ought to be addressed for integration to be worthwhile.

Find my full remarks here https://t.co/smOh1zuEYh

[David Lewis Rubongoya @DavidLRubongoya]

7 years and 10 months after he was brutally shot dead in Arua, the High Court has finally ordered an inquest into the death of Yasin Kawuma who was a driver to our leader @HEBobiwine. (An inquest is a judicial investigation to establish the facts surrounding a specific event, most commonly an unexplained, sudden, or violent death. It is a fact-finding inquiry typically led by a coroner or a magistrate.)

Although this matter was filed in 2019, it was not until yesterday that judgment was delivered. Even then and regardless of the outcome, this goes to show the importance of always documenting and filing these cases and keeping them on record. As the saying goes, omusango teguvunda (a case doesn't rot). Eventually, such cases get revisited!

Special tribute to Senior Counsel, Ladislaus Rwakafuzi who filed this matter before he became indisposed, and his assistants who continued to follow it up.

[Joel Ssenyonyi @JoelSsenyonyi]

#KeepingTheGovtInCheck

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

Sending my thoughts to the families who lost their loved ones in the road accident that occurred yesterday at Bobi Trading Centre, Omoro District, along the highway to Gulu. I extend condolences to them and wish a quick recovery to those who survived with injuries.

We owe it to ourselves to make our roads safer through better infrastructure and proper maintenance, otherwise these recurring tragedies have become too normal! May the souls of the departed rest in eternal peace.

[Lina Zedriga Waru @linazed2]

Alleluia

[National Unity Platform @NUP_Ug]

This morning, our Deputy President for Buganda, Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi and his co-accused will be brought to the International Crimes Division of the High Court in Wandegeya, Kampala.
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

Museveni’s son said he is very proud of the pain and hurt he is inflicting on former Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. He must be very proud of himself, seeing this video. But as the saying goes, no one is tall enough to see the future. One day, the tables will turn and all these atrocities will be accounted for, one by one.

[Winnie Byanyima @Winnie_Byanyima]

The head of the judiciary, who was sworn in on President @KagutaMuseveni’s private farm in the presence of the President’s family, is conspicuously silent as the President openly violates the Constitution, usurps the authority of the courts, and justifies abductions, torture, prolonged detention without trial, and other grave abuses led by his son.

Silence in the face of such constitutional violations is not neutrality. It is a betrayal of the judiciary’s duty to uphold the rule of law. Chief Justice, you too will account.

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

Dear Davido, RESPECT is an understatement!
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[David Lewis Rubongoya @DavidLRubongoya]

Did he say that we should be glad that those who are arrested are taken to court? How did that statement sit in the hearts of the families of these Ugandans who were abducted by state operatives between 2019 and 2020 and are still missing todate? Disappeared. Silenced. His regime desperately hoping they can be forgotten.

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

A few days from now, it will be three months since Christopher Goddy, a comrade and musician better known as 'King Zale,' was abducted from Kamokya. His family is very distressed, having looked for him everywhere without a trace.

As usual, the regime whose men abducted King Zale remains completely silent about his whereabouts – the same silence it has maintained about all other comrades who have been missing for several years now! We continue demanding for his immediate release from illegal detention and an end to this impunity!

[David Lewis Rubongoya @DavidLRubongoya]

Again, good people, let us learn that the RULE OF LAW helps everyone. It's akin to the air we breathe.

Seeing Mariam Wangadya cry about the deliberate destruction of the Uganda Human Rights Commission by the regime brought back memories of how she treated our numerous complaints.

She said that the 18 missing @NUP_Ug supporters were non-existent. Mocking the cries of the wives, mothers and children of Johnbosco Kibalama, John Ddamulira, Mbabazi Moses Kawenja, Kanatta Muhammad and the others, she had the audacity of suggesting that those people were ghosts, and their families staged! She said all this was "katemba" and "kiwaani".

She called for the 'disbandment' of NUP foot-soldiers, suggesting they were criminals.

She claimed that our late dear comrade, Marinos Alexandria faked her plight, after being raped from detention. When Marinos fled out of the country facing death threats, she said it was out of shame that she fled.

When our leader @HEBobiwine filed a complaint and attempted to make a personal statement before the Commission, she stopped him mid way and dismissed his complaint summarily.

And now, she suddenly agrees with what we have consistently said - that the UHRC was reduced into the most incompetent institution, incapable of fulfilling its constitutional mandate under these circumstances. TIME!

[Winnie Byanyima @Winnie_Byanyima]

It is.

[UN Spokesperson @UN_Spokesperson]

.@antonioguterres is closely following recent developments in #Uganda.

He notes with concern reports regarding the detention of political and civic actors, including cases in which the whereabouts of some individuals have not been clearly established.

https://t.co/lw0FHVzMjA

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

Relieved to learn that Hon. Miria Matembe has been granted bail following her abduction last week. It remains a shame that Matembe, a 73-year-old grandmother with an unblemished record of public service, had to suffer this ordeal in the first place!

Remember, Matembe was subjected to this ordeal because she bruised the fragile ego of Muhoozi Kainerugaba -- the dictator's infantile son -- when she criticized him. It really takes special cowardice for an army commander approaching 60 years of old age to flex State power on a defenceless grandmother whose courage he can never match in 100 lifetimes.

More shameful, the regime that practices sectarianism openly charged Matembe with "Promoting Sectarianism."

Imagine the very regime that breathes and practises sectarianism, claiming the moral authority to prosecute those who expose its sectarianism!

We shall have to unite and find a lasting solution for these blood-thirsty tyrants!

[Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman @SenateForeign]

The U.S. needs to review its security relationship with Uganda. Gen. @mkainerugaba's attacks on free speech, including shuttering major media houses this weekend, make him & the UPDF unfit partners. We should only work with those who advance regional security, not diminish it.

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

It turns out that journalist and media personality @TimKalyegira, who has been missing, was actually abducted, held incommunicado, and is now being arraigned for charging! Simply because he's been outspoken about Museveni and his son's crimes. We got to this point because everyone thought that someone else would fix it. Hopefully everyone now realises the collective danger and the collective duty. Only then shall we be free.

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

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[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

Two leading civil society leaders and distinguished lawyers, Dr. Sarah Bireete E.D @ccgea1 and Eunice Musiime E.D @amwaafrika are the latest victims of the ongoing criminality. They have been abducted by the military and driven off to an unknown destination. These are definitely tough times, but the TOUGH PEOPLE OF UGANDA will outlive them. Uganda will be free!

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

Museveni’s criminal son, acting with his father’s full approval, has moved to silence Uganda’s remaining independent voices by shutting down @NTVUganda, @DailyMonitor, @DembeFM, and @SparkTV.
This is the hash reality we now face, a country under open military rule, where fear replaces law and force replaces accountability.
But history is clear. Dictators always escalate repression towards their fall, pressing every button in desperation, until they press the one they never expected to be their last.
Uganda will be free!