We took off some time yesterday to check on our comrade Mbabazi Passy in Ishaka - Bushenyi. Mbabazi is the Registrar for @NUP_Ug there. She has suffered so many health challenges following numerous arrests and detentions. Despite all this, she's still standing with courage. Her body is weak, but her spirit is strong.
Later in Kamwenge District, we visited the family of our comrade Bobi Young. His mother too has been frail and sickly in these recent days. We thank God that she's now improving. Grateful to everyone who continues to support these families with material needs.
A few days ago, I went to Kitalya after many requests from Yasin Ssekitoleko to see me. He wanted to seek my advice on whether he should plead guilty and leave prison as he’s still being coerced by the state. He said, “madam Agather tukooye ekommera. Emyaaka tugenda mumukaaga. Banange tukooye atte nga teli suubi nti tulifuna obwenkanya okuva mu court..” I told him no one would blame him or his 9 colleagues for doing that. The @JudiciaryUG has failed them, like it has many other Ugandans. Maybe we have also failed them for not doing more to demand for their rights and the rights of all the other citizens that have been disappeared, murdered, arbitrarily detained, tortured, etc. he asked me to tell you about this conversation.
Two nephews of mine were admitted to KIU, and they paid fully (15,570,000/-). For some reasons, they changed to another university before they started at KIU. Having failed even to get the partial refund provided for in the University’s policies, they talked to the DVC FA for the option of transferring the fees to two other students who were already at KIU. He accepted and said it was sorted. But it never reflected on the system, and they continued demanding for fees from the two students until they paid not to miss exams. One year later, they haven’t transferred the fees!
Dear KIU, no amount of suing is going to clean up your name in the public’s eyes when you continue to act with impunity and meanness like this. Address stakeholders’ concerns.
UPDATE: The criminal regime yesterday paraded before the Police Court, nine of the police officers who were assigned to our campaign! They were all dismissed from the Uganda Police Force with disgrace. Their crime? "Neglect of Duty". The criminal regime claims that they assisted me in escaping from my own home. Crazy!
And yet, in fact, these professional police officers were withdrawn on 15th January, which was election day. By the time I left my home on the 16th when the military raided, they were no longer on duty. But now, they're being hounded, persecuted, and punished because the regime can not live with the embarrassment of not being able to locate me for two months. They're looking for anyone to blame. In any event, these officers were deployed to protect me and not to spy on me. But this is what Museveni has turned all institutions into! He expects them to do everything illegal, criminal, or immoral to sustain his criminal enterprise. Choosing to act professionally has landed very many civil servants in trouble.
We understand that in addition to being dismissed, officer Kigenyi and another were taken back to detention at the police station at the Railway grounds and are still being interrogated! UGANDA WILL BE FREE. For now, we stand in solidarity with these officers, who, like many other Ugandans, have had to taste the wrath of a desperate regime in its evening.
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