Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli

An international trade expert. currently on a journey discovering the world. 🇺🇬🇹🇷🇪🇸🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇰🇪🇪🇬

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@vsco Zaragoza

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

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[Kakwenza Rukirabashaija @KakwenzaRukira]

What do Besigye's children think of Museveni and Muhoozi? And when Besigye, Museveni and Muhoozi are long gone, how will Besigye's children and grandchildren look at the offspring of the men that tormented their father?

How about Lukwago's children? Olivia Lutaaya's children? Sam Mugumya’s relatives? How about my own children? The list is endless. How will these children one day look at the judges, magistrates, prosecutors, police officers and soldiers (or their children) who were used to proliferate crimes against humanity against their parents? These are questions human beings should be asking now, because children grow up, governments end, uniforms come off, judicial robes are folded away, but memory is notoriously difficult to retire.

Look at the pictures of Museveni's and Muhoozi's millions of victims. Look at the sad, contorted faces and mutilated bodies. Some have lost limbs. Some have lost their minds. Many have lost their incomes. Others have had entire futures robbed from them. Behind every broken body is a family that has also been sentenced without ever appearing before a court.

The saddest part is that many of the people accused of tormenting them are still alive, still powerful, and still tormenting others. Some even boast about it openly on social media with such confidence that one wonders whether power has convinced them that mortality was repealed specifically for their benefit. It was not because these people will die. We shall all die. The despot will die. His imbecile son will die. Generals will die. Judges like Emmanuel Baguma, Kinobe, Douglas Singiza, Kania, Zeija etcetera will die. Prosecutors like Joan Keko, Birivumbuka, Jatiko, etcetera, will die. Torturers will die. Their victims will also die. The difference is that death does not necessarily bury what people did while they were alive. Their children may inherit their property, but they will also inherit malodorous questions about their names.

So what do these people expect from those they have tormented when their time comes? Shall victims be blamed for feeling relief when the people they associate with their suffering finally breathe their last? Shall they be lectured about decency and morality by the same people who discovered no decency when citizens were being abducted, tortured, imprisoned, mutilated and driven into exile? It is an extraordinary moral arrangement in which the victim must display humanity toward his tormentor while nobody demanded humanity from the tormentor when it mattered.

What country are we building for our children when people entrusted with state power torment other people's parents as though they themselves have no children? Do they imagine their own sons and daughters will live in a separate Uganda, insulated forever from the memories created by their parents?

They will not, and this is also why we must be extremely careful about what political violence is doing to relations among Uganda's communities. When members of a small politically powerful clique of Bahima are associated with the persecution of Bahororo, Baganda, Bakiga, Basoga, Acholi, Bakonzho, Lango, Iteso and other Ugandans, anger can easily migrate from the responsible individuals to an entire community. That would be another catastrophe. Criminal responsibility belongs to the person who orders, abducts, tortures, prosecutes unlawfully, conceals, or facilitates abuse. It should never become hereditary or tribal otherwise we shall manufacture another injustice while claiming to answer the present one.

Unfortunately, many of the elders who should be answering these questions are either in prison, in exile, silent, frightened, or participating in the machinery that has produced them. Some, like Adonia Ayebare, Andrew Mwenda, Dombo, etcetera, have become experts at explaining why today's cruelty is necessary, perhaps because they imagine tomorrow will never interview them.

We must wake up and decide what country we intend to leave to our posterity because we cannot continue manufacturing political orphans, broken families, exiles, prisoners and mutilated citizens, then expect their children to inherit nothing from those experiences. Children inherit more than land and surnames by the way. They inherit stories, photographs, unanswered questions, memories of who came for their father at night and who refused to uphold institutional values.

The question now is whether we shall leave our children a country capable of answering those memories with justice, or merely hand them our grievances and expect them to finish the quarrel.

Rukirabachwezi

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@DrOtileUg @bookingcom @DrOtileUg https://t.co/eqcMcocOD4 isn't responsible for yo trip advisory as far as I know, on the other hand if you booked a fully refundable or partly refundable then you can make a rclaim but if the booking was a non refundable then am sorry to be the bearer of bad news boss.

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

I NEED YOU

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@KwikirizaNova Even though that’s true, it’s not the place for the president to decide on everything, that’s why we have government organs. Otherwise if everything has to go through the president then we are doomed or rather he will be worn out.

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@FredShaka @mkainerugaba @BalaamBarugahar @Wassajja_Aiden @NathanNuwagira2 @Godfrey__K @BalaamBarugahar remember studying at Mengo Senior School, it is a day school, government aided but we still paid school fees. I don't condem the school because it shaped me to the man I am but I think laws should pass to all or not any at all.

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

I read this story on linkedin. @MinofHealthUG for sure if you read the comments you will see many people are crying to you and not only those but also those that are not able to voice their cries.

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[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

you fought a good fight. so proud of you DR Congo.

[CAF @CAF_Online]

Heads held high.
Hearts full of pride.
Thank you, DR Congo. 🇨🇩💙

#FIFAWorldCup

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Football fans after DR Congo’s elimination:

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@themichaelowen Bullshit

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@DuncanAbigaba Given the facts that we all know would you @DuncanAbigaba pass the same judgement? You cannot do that to someone who has been a voice for many over the years.

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

If you follow Ugandan politics well, you will know there is something serious happening by the time you see the attention is being diverted to the Tv and radio closures. what could we be missing?

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@elonmusk @BasilTheGreat you're dumb @elonmusk

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@HuduHussein If there is no law being broken just because they are "biased" against the goverment then why the closure. Should we close every radio and TV station just because they release a piece we are not happy about?

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

Uganda’s foreign and internal affairs is being handled on X. What a time to be alive, whether its for clicks or not, its not funny.

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@mark_keron Name the Rugby stand or stadium after him to always remember him.

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@AJENews @AJENews I think it would be better to report with fine info, source of the reporting, reports on ground and proof. Don't be quick to break news when its fake. you can do better.

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@SkyNews @SkyNews get your facts right. Ypu can do better than this.

[Wilberforce Mbahe Apuuli @wilba4c1]

@Ronkawamara @jkengonzi Me sending money to my dear mother in Uganda via Mobile money, Is that considered a crime since am considered a foreigner in this case?