Yosam Manafa

Disciple | Husband | Dad | Immigrant Pastor | Missiology ~ Theology Scholar

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

The Tragic Day 37 Years Ago When the Uganda State Army Baked Its Own People Alive
On 11 July 1989, at Okungulo Railway Station in Mukura, Kumi District, eastern Uganda, a horrific atrocity was committed against local civilians.
The victims were farmers, teachers, sons and fathers from the surrounding Teso villages, rounded up by the National Resistance Army’s (NRA) 106th Battalion on suspicion of being rebel collaborators. More than a hundred of these local men were driven into a single, unventilated steel goods wagon and locked inside.
The afternoon heat at Okungulo Railway Station was already suffocating when the heavy iron door was slammed shut and the bolts slid into place, sealing them inside the metal box.
Within minutes, the air vanished. Inside, it became a pitch-black furnace. Men stripped off their clothes, drenched in their own sweat and the sweat of those pressed tightly against them. They began to gasp, their chests heaving in vain for oxygen.
Desperate, they hammered their fists against the corrugated steel walls, screaming for water, for air, for mercy.
Outside, the response to their cries was a strike of a match. Soldiers gathered brushwood and lit a fire directly beneath the wagon.
The steel floor turned into a scorching hot pan, and the wagon became an oven. The rising heat and smoke consumed the last remaining pockets of oxygen. Inside the belly of the iron beast, the frantic thumping slowly faded, replaced by the sound of men choking and collapsing onto one another.
When the doors were finally opened hours later, the silence was absolute. Sixty-nine bodies lay contorted in the dark, piled in a desperate, final scramble towards the cracks in the door.
A concrete monument was eventually built to mark the mass grave of those who perished that day. Yet the nation has never truly come to terms with the horror of what happened.
Because this dark chapter remained unaddressed in the national conscience for so long, their restless ghosts continue to haunt the country’s memory.

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

@SimonKaggwaNjal @BalaamBarugahar Many nuances and facts get drowned out in the noise, all for the camera's sake. The underdogs suffer damage to their reputations, while the true thieves lounge comfortably in luxury.

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

@PatroUganda This won't end well… we’ve been here before. Let's create a sustainable system rather than focusing on populist camera moments that only provide temporary benefits to those pretending to enforce what the law cannot enforce.

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

Could the absence of the Matriarch, whom I assume kept the household united, be the reason behind the heir's erotic behavior and the family disputes that are becoming more visible to the public by the day? ….IYKYK…

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

Your silence as religious leaders is deafening. Your dishonest scales are clearly evident as you bless those who perpetuate injustice, celebrating and honoring them, while remaining silent as they abduct and falsely accuse opponents. Do better!

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

A memorable humbling recognition!

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

It's sad to see that some of those who once inspired us to challenge injustice are now part of the very injustices they once spoke. I really miss the days of the @CapitalFMUganda gang from the early 2000s, when their brilliance and wit was for and not against the people. ✌️🏾

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

It's been ages since I've been here... let me take a minute to acclimate.

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

My 18-month break was worthwhile, and I am back in this space. Let me take a moment to understand what has changed and navigate my way around.

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

@emeka_ug I think food to Contracted Service Providers (CSP) is/ should be taken as an act of hospitality but not a right.

CSPs should make meal plans for their teams, I mean you can send a Boda Boda to deliver, or pack your meal. Do whatever it takes to deliver on your contract.

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

@qataharraymond https://t.co/tC83JDkNZq

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

Very heartbroken, and can only pray for the families and the entire community of our brothers and sisters in Kasese. An almost entire student body was senselessly murdered in such a brutal way.

May you find comfort, and rest in God, and the hope that Justice will come, someday.

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

The Muslim Ummah in Uganda, which is a religious minority, continues to experience persecution and marginalization. They’re demonized and labeled terrorists. As a Christian with the majority of my extended family being Muslim, this injustice is unacceptable. I stand with them.

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

Sheikh Kamoga home raid: Uganda law society slams @PoliceUg over brutal arrests 
DETAILS👉🏿: https://t.co/gZwcRQqStg
#MonitorUpdates

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

3. And lastly, rather than legislating people out, let's love them in. Ours is not to judge but be witnesses and the best image bearers of a God so loving. Even when doing our apologetics.

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

After listening to this Twitter conversation on the recently assented Anti-Homosexual Act (AHA), I can only say, just like I have before, that:

[Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga @rkabushenga]

For those who missed this conversation, here is the recording https://t.co/UtGeipWXzY

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

2. Our Faith should compel and guide our participation in the public and politics but never cause us to force our tenants and practices on the secular public (Nation- State).

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

@cobbo3, and @qataharraymond, one of you needs to go back to @mm1124 comments during his recent conversation and see if there are any dots to connect.

Context: the attack on Ugandan soldiers in Somalia, and the assent into Law of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. NSA vs State Dept

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

@MKarekye @LNduwumwami @MwesigyeFranks @mkainerugabaa @mkainerugaba @ChrisOMagezi @SeniorYona44 @DuncanAbigaba @UPDFspokespersn @KagutaMuseveni @DeoAkiiki @AKasingye If you are indeed interested in the answer to your question (which I highly doubt) you might want to listen to the conversation between @rkabushenga and @mm1124 (which, if you are very committed to your job, would have already listened to, and therefore wouldn't be asking).

[Yosam Manafa @YManafa]

@like_a_gem @ChurchofUganda_ @Archbp_COU This is just not right, and besides, funerals are as much, if not more for the living, what therefore are we communicating as a church? 🤦🏾‍♂️🫤.