The United Nations General Assembly will always turn Ugandan representatives into hardcore human activists, the kind that get jailed in Kampala and their bank accounts frozen for being that!
Here is @jessica_alupo sounding like @AAgather yesterday, telling everyone how Uganda believes in fundamental rights, UN charter (Human Rights), and multipolar world.
As she spoke, Sam Mugumya remains under military detention for over a year, young Ugandans are picked up by the military for making comments criticising the regime on TikTok, Erias Lukwago, Eddy Mutwe, Mathew Bagonza who were abducted and shirtless photos of them posted on the internet remain in jail with threats that some - like Lukwago - will never be released. Regime judges and magistrates are playing along!
As for a multipolar world, Uganda wants it so badly, but cannot put up with multiparty politics at home: @HEBobiwine remains in exile in the US, Ssemujju too had to go! Besigye, Lukwago, Sam Makhoha are - literally - dying in jail. Tens of @NUP_Ug supporters are in jail for wearing the party's red beret - but yeah, we desperately want the world to be multipolar!
Alupo began by saying she was reading Museveni's speech, which makes it even more interesting when the demands made on the global stage are contrasted with our local realities here in Uganda.
@KKariisa and @DaltonKaweesa intervene and give us an opportunity to always express our selves! We request you to reconsider us and provide us with @sanyukatv platform cause we cannot now be invited on nbsbarometer of @adam_kungu
It has been three years now, getting an opportunity of free airtime on @sanyukatv on kasasame, giving an opportunity to young leaders of tommorrow getting confidence and enhancing their reason capabilities politically! @KKariisa and @DaltonKaweesa intervene.
COURT; Judge Baguma Emmanuel: Since you received the evidence, let us proceed to the next stage. I earlier directed that, should you maintain a difficulty with legal representation, you be furnished with the list of 786 advocates on state brief, from which you were to make your selection. Have you made your choice?
1ST APPLICANT (Col. (Rtd.) Dr. Kizza Besigye): My Lord, I received the list at 6:00 p.m. yesterday. It is an extensive list of 786 advocates, and I respectfully seek the Court’s guidance on how best to make a selection from it while the underlying questions concerning our legal representation remain unresolved.
The Court is well aware that the charges we face are grave and complex, spanning events said to have occurred across four countries. Much of the evidence confronting us is technical and electronic in nature. It is therefore vital, in selecting counsel, that we understand the respective competencies of the advocates named on the list, so that, guided by those competencies, we may make an informed selection.
What has been furnished to us is limited to the advocates’ names, years of enrolment, the jurisdictions or areas in which they practise, and their telephone contacts. This does not disclose their competencies. I accordingly seek the Court’s guidance on how we may be enabled to ascertain those competencies so as to make a proper selection.
Having said that, I wish to reiterate our earlier submission: the legal team we had is one in whose competence we placed full confidence, and which remains available to represent us in this matter once the concerns touching upon its members’ security have been resolved.
Those concerns are the subject of Application No. 248, presently before the High Court. At our last appearance, Your Lordship undertook to ascertain its status. It was filed last month and bears directly upon the matter now before this Court.
Finally, My Lord, it would be an injustice to the people of Uganda to bear the cost of counsel on our behalf when we are able and willing to meet the requirements of counsel of our own choosing — the more so in these hard times, when people are dying of hunger.
@kibuuka_s In that essence, you wrote only nonsense, or you lacked what to say at this moment, it's not unique, durin the kampala protests were seen in oc office by our lawyers