Happy 65th birthday our Deputy President in charge of Northern Uganda, Dr. Lina Zedriga. We are grateful for your contribution to the struggle for a better Uganda and pray that this new chapter brings you good health and many more years of impactful service to our country.
We’ve walked through rose gardens and through hellfire, laughed until our stomachs hurt and cried until our eyes were red.
Through it all and yet still together and still choosing each other. Sometimes I wonder what I ever did to deserve a blessing like you.
One lifetime could never be enough for me to love you or to reward you for all that you have been to me. So I pray that God’s blessings follow you, our children and our grandchildren, through every generation.
Happy birthday, my dearest @BarbieItungoK .
I love you❤️
I can confirm that Next Media will soon be in charge of its media handles again. And it is nothing to do with any witch-hunt but rather a tech glitch that made the pages vulnerable to forex trade related hackers!
Good tech team that @KKariisa got this time round.
There is no greater hypocrisy than that of Yoweri Museveni.
For 40 years, you have presided over a regime that has become synonymous with torture, enforced disappearances, illegal detention, corruption, and impunity. Yet you stand before the nation with a straight face, condemning the very crimes your government is committing.
This is the same man who publicly boasted that his soldiers had beaten me “very well” after the brutal events in Arua in 2018, during which my driver, Yasin Kawuma, was shot dead. Today, you pretend to denounce torture as if Ugandans have forgotten.
You criticize Andrew Mwenda, yet he remains one of the closest public defenders and enablers of your son—the very man to whom you have entrusted enormous, unchecked power. Your son has repeatedly made public statements celebrating violence against political opponents and has shared images of detained and abused Ugandans with apparent pride instead of shame.
You speak about human rights while conveniently ignoring the many Ugandans whose lives have been shattered by your security agencies. The ordeal of Eddie Mutwe, the abduction and reported abuse of Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi, the continued detention of countless National Unity Platform supporters, and the countless families still searching for loved ones who disappeared after being taken by state operatives and the numerous reports by local and international human rights organizations all tell a story completely different from the one you are trying to sell.
Then there is Sam Mugumya. Abducted in Mbarara in August last year. Months later, a deeply disturbing video emerged showing an emaciated and apparently physically incapacitated Sam, reportedly inside Kasenyi Military Barracks. The images shocked the nation, yet they have been met with silence and denial instead of accountability. If seeing a fellow Ugandan reduced to such a state cannot stir your conscience, then your speeches about humanity are simply hollow.
Popular musician 'King Zale' was picked up from Kamwokya and to date, his where abouts are still unknown. Those that have recently been released from the same Kasenyi barracks have mentioned seeing him there having been gravely tortured.
Ugandans have not forgotten the “drone” abductions, the torture allegations in safe houses, the prolonged detention of political prisoners, or the violence witnessed during and after the 2021 and 2026 elections. Many victims returned with horrifying accounts of abuse. Others have never returned at all.
At your age, one would expect honesty, humility, and reflection. Instead, you continue to insult the intelligence of Ugandans by denying what millions have witnessed over the years.
Had I not escaped into exile, I might well have suffered the same fate as many other Ugandans who have reportedly been tortured, disappeared, or imprisoned simply for exercising rights guaranteed under our Constitution.
Many young people remain behind bars because they supported a different political vision. Their only “crime” was believing that Uganda deserves freedom and democracy.
What makes your statements even more astonishing is that you once condemned exactly these practices. You justified taking up arms by accusing previous governments of torture, arbitrary arrests, election rigging, and abuse of power. You promised that Uganda would never again be governed through fear. Yet today, your government stands accused of repeating, and even institutionalizing the very practices you once claimed to be fighting against.
History has an interesting way of exposing hypocrisy.
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For four months, Dr. Lina Zedriga Waru has been acting President of our Party. During this period, she has steered the party well and kept the revolution alive. We're all very grateful for her dedication and service.
As her tenure comes to an end, I am pleased to announce that Hon. John Baptist Nambeshe, Deputy President Eastern Region, will be taking over as acting President of the National Unity Platform. I wish him well and request all leaders and comrades to accord him the necessary support.
#PeoplePowerOurPower
Please keep our brother and @NUP_Ug Deputy President Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi in your prayers. His whereabouts remain unknown since his abduction 9 days ago!
Sending my condolences to the family, friends and constituents of Gen. Moses Ali upon his death. May Allah comfort you all and grant him jannatul firdaus. Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un!
We’ve received disturbing reports alleging that Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi was tortured to near death at Kasenyi SFC military barracks and is now being hidden from the public while receiving treatment before he can be produced.
These reports cannot be dismissed lightly. Many of us have gone through similar ordeals at the hands of this regime and were deliberately hidden from the public until our wounds and the evidence of torture had faded.
While the regime keeps the country distracted with endless diversions, it’s now 10 days since our Deputy President of the Buganda region was abducted in broad daylight and since then, he has never been seen again.
Neither the police nor the army have accounted for his whereabouts.
Where is Hon Muwanga Kivumbi ?
Sadly for Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi, he is a Muganda, a Muslim, and a member of NUP. In Uganda today, each of these identities can invite hatred, brutality, and torture when one is abducted.
So imagine what happens to someone who combines all the three!
Watch this and you might think you're watching films about Uganda in 2026. Except that these documentaries are about Uday Hussein, Saddam Hussein's son who was known for his excessive cruelty, abuse of women, erratic behavior, and gross human rights abuses- including torture, rape, and murder. Like Museveni’s brutal son, Uday employed extreme sadism, erratic violence, and total impunity to commit severe atrocities and terror campaigns against the people, until his death in 2003. Hoping that he would succeed his father, he murdered, kidnapped and jailed opponents - often times in his private prisons and torture chambers. Today, his name lies where it truly belongs - in the dungeon of history. History does not repeat itself - only fools repeat history, because they never learn anything from it.
Watch the full documentaries on the links below:
https://t.co/deCNmRbhzs
https://t.co/00V27ilZTu
Just last week, regime apologists were questioning the decision of the US to place Uganda on Level 4 Do Not Travel Advisory! We LOVE OUR COUNTRY, but those who rule over us are the enemies of our country. See this video and you may think you're watching a scene from a war front. But this is Kisekka Market, in the middle of our capital. How do you persuade people to visit a country that behaves in this manner? Heavily armed thugs in plain clothes terrorising people in broad daylight! No wonder ordinary people thought they were armed robbers! And yet, these are the regime operatives who have been given the licence to terrorise, abduct and murder without consequence. How can ordinary citizens distinguish between criminals and security operatives when there's no difference in how they conduct themselves? We must all aspire to build a country where security forces behave with utmost professionalism.
That has always been the nature of the Museveni regime, from day one!
Please watch a documentary called A BRILLIANT GENOCIDE and you will understand what Northern Uganda endured at the hands of this evil regime.
Today, we mark exactly six years since we unveiled the National Unity Platform (NUP)—the political wing of the People Power movement. What a journey it has been! A journey of sacrifice, pain, and triumphs.
When we set out, may detractors said we wouldn't last a month. They called us hooligans and lumpens. They branded us a passing wave that would never amount to anything. They dismissed us and unleashed all manner of propaganda against us.
But we did not give up or give in. Today, we still stand as a potent, resilient anti-dictatorship force known world over for standing for the rights and dignity of every citizen.
We celebrate this milestone under heavy hearts, remembering our comrades who are still languishing in illegal detention, those who have been tortured, and those who have paid the ultimate price for a free Uganda. We shall never forget their sacrifice.
To the regime: our spirits have not been and will not be crushed by the extreme repression!
To the people of Uganda: do not lose hope. The setbacks we have encountered are mere phases in an intergenerational struggle. We will complete this mission.
Thank you to our leadership team, our diaspora chapters, and every Ugandan standing firm at the grassroots. The journey may be long, but freedom is inevitable.
Happy 6th Anniversary, NUP! ✊🏾🇺🇬
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!