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They were arrested and detained for over a week, brutalized as shown in the video below for doing what the rest of us have failed to do-protesting against the impunity and criminality of CDF Muhoozi Kainerugaba when he gloated over the illegal detention and torture of Eddie Mutwe in May 2025. Thanks to our silence and complacency, many other fellow citizens have become victims; Sam Mugumya who was disappeared almost a year ago, Erias Lukwago who was also subjected to publicized torture and inhumane treatment, Muwanga Kivumbi who was abducted 17 days ago, King Zale & William Baliza who were disappeared months ago, among others. Anyway, after over a year of attending court sessions and being threatened with conviction, the case against Aloikin Praise Opoloje Norah kobusingye and Namara Claire was dismissed today.

They were arrested and detained for over a week, brutalized as shown in the video below for doing what the rest of us have failed to do-protesting against the impunity and criminality of CDF Muhoozi Kainerugaba when he gloated over the illegal detention and torture of Eddie Mutwe in May 2025. Thanks to our silence and complacency, many other fellow citizens have become victims; Sam Mugumya who was disappeared almost a year ago, Erias Lukwago who was also subjected to publicized torture and inhumane treatment, Muwanga Kivumbi who was abducted 17 days ago, King Zale & William Baliza who were disappeared months ago, among others. Anyway, after over a year of attending court sessions and being threatened with conviction, the case against Aloikin Praise Opoloje Norah kobusingye and Namara Claire was dismissed today.

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Here was before I received my delivery from ESAU

Here was before I received my delivery from ESAU

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Dear Mr. President, Thank you for writing against the terrible, barbaric act of torture again, as you did in 2017 when many people were being tortured at the infamous Nalufenya detention center. Just in case you didn’t know, let me join many other Ugandans to bring it to your attention that so many more people have been tortured since then. I will list some of them but let me start with Sam Mugumya who was disappeared by security operatives a year ago and has never been released or charged in any court of law even when the courts ordered the state to investigate this matter. I also interviewed his 83 year old mother Ednansi Katungwesi who appealed to you to intervene and ensure that her son is taken to prison where she can visit him and ascertain that he is alive, if he committed any crime. Recently, a video of him surfaced and he has been visibly subjected to torture and inhumane treatment. He was tortured even worse than Nuwagaba (I say that because I interviewed Nuwagaba in 2024) and if Mugumya isn’t released to get the same treatment you offered to Nuwagaba, I am afraid he won’t survive. Many other Ugandans have been abducted and disappeared and held incommunicado and tortured. The reason suspects are not arrested in accordance with the law and held in gazetted detention is to torture them. Some of those that have been lucky to make it out have told this harrowing tales. Some haven’t been lucky because they have not been seen again for 7,6,5 years. As we speak, countless Ugandans are still held incommunicado including two very young people Christopher Gody (King Zale) and 18 year old William Baliza. Then there are others whose torture hasn’t even been hidden. Your son the CDF, has publicized it, e.g Eddie Mutwe, Erias Lukwago, etc. Just in case these had not been brought to your attention, I and many other Ugandans are bringing them to your attention. Otherwise Ugandans may think you only care about the torture of Nuwagaba who comes from Kiruhura where you also come from and not the plight of so many other parents like the 83 year old mother of Sam Mugumya and of these many other Ugandans that have been tortured. Thank you for your attention to this critical issue.

Dear Mr. President, Thank you for writing against the terrible, barbaric act of torture again, as you did in 2017 when many people were being tortured at the infamous Nalufenya detention center. Just in case you didn’t know, let me join many other Ugandans to bring it to your attention that so many more people have been tortured since then. I will list some of them but let me start with Sam Mugumya who was disappeared by security operatives a year ago and has never been released or charged in any court of law even when the courts ordered the state to investigate this matter. I also interviewed his 83 year old mother Ednansi Katungwesi who appealed to you to intervene and ensure that her son is taken to prison where she can visit him and ascertain that he is alive, if he committed any crime. Recently, a video of him surfaced and he has been visibly subjected to torture and inhumane treatment. He was tortured even worse than Nuwagaba (I say that because I interviewed Nuwagaba in 2024) and if Mugumya isn’t released to get the same treatment you offered to Nuwagaba, I am afraid he won’t survive. Many other Ugandans have been abducted and disappeared and held incommunicado and tortured. The reason suspects are not arrested in accordance with the law and held in gazetted detention is to torture them. Some of those that have been lucky to make it out have told this harrowing tales. Some haven’t been lucky because they have not been seen again for 7,6,5 years. As we speak, countless Ugandans are still held incommunicado including two very young people Christopher Gody (King Zale) and 18 year old William Baliza. Then there are others whose torture hasn’t even been hidden. Your son the CDF, has publicized it, e.g Eddie Mutwe, Erias Lukwago, etc. Just in case these had not been brought to your attention, I and many other Ugandans are bringing them to your attention. Otherwise Ugandans may think you only care about the torture of Nuwagaba who comes from Kiruhura where you also come from and not the plight of so many other parents like the 83 year old mother of Sam Mugumya and of these many other Ugandans that have been tortured. Thank you for your attention to this critical issue.

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I agree he grossly misrepresented the situation. He didn’t add that the CDF abducts and tortures for pleasure and publicizes the torture and ill treatment of his victims, he didn’t clearly state the gravity of torture and enforced disappearances. He didn’t mention Sam Mugumya who was maimed by this government. Or the supporters of NUP that the government kept in prison for 6 years without trying them for any case and it shamelessly, instead of admitting their wrong and acquitting them, coerced them to change their plea and false incriminate if they want to regain their freedom.

I agree he grossly misrepresented the situation. He didn’t add that the CDF abducts and tortures for pleasure and publicizes the torture and ill treatment of his victims, he didn’t clearly state the gravity of torture and enforced disappearances. He didn’t mention Sam Mugumya who was maimed by this government. Or the supporters of NUP that the government kept in prison for 6 years without trying them for any case and it shamelessly, instead of admitting their wrong and acquitting them, coerced them to change their plea and false incriminate if they want to regain their freedom.

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There were those asking for evidence of the killings in Tanzania. There you go if you have the heart to watch. I have many more. It’s a massacre in Tanzania! #FreeTanzania #SaveTanzania #JumuiyaNiYetu

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There were those asking for evidence of the killings in Tanzania. There you go if you have the heart to watch. I have many more. It’s a massacre in Tanzania! #FreeTanzania #SaveTanzania #JumuiyaNiYetu

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After the abduction of Sam Mugumya on August 25th 2025 by the Military, our amazing human rights lawyers filed a habeas corpus application. In the affidavit in reply, a one Lt. Col Edgar Musasizi stated, under oath, that “the applicant is not and his never been in their custody”. The then army Spokesperson said, on one of the TV shows, that Sam Mugumya is in the habit of disappearing. Over a month after his enforced disappearance, Agora Discourse brought his matter to the attention of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance. The WG wrote to the Government of Uganda calling for appropriate investigations into the matter to clarify the fate and whereabouts of Sam Mugumya and to ensure that his rights are protected. For almost a year now, the same Government supposed to ensure the right of Sam Mugumya and all its citizens are protected, have instead kept him in incommunicado detention, tortured and maimed him. We call upon all Ugandans and all other global citizens and global authorities to join us demand for the release of Sam Mugumya. #SaveSamMugumya #JusticeForSamMugumya

After the abduction of Sam Mugumya on August 25th 2025 by the Military, our amazing human rights lawyers filed a habeas corpus application. In the affidavit in reply, a one Lt. Col Edgar Musasizi stated, under oath, that “the applicant is not and his never been in their custody”. The then army Spokesperson said, on one of the TV shows, that Sam Mugumya is in the habit of disappearing. Over a month after his enforced disappearance, Agora Discourse brought his matter to the attention of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance. The WG wrote to the Government of Uganda calling for appropriate investigations into the matter to clarify the fate and whereabouts of Sam Mugumya and to ensure that his rights are protected. For almost a year now, the same Government supposed to ensure the right of Sam Mugumya and all its citizens are protected, have instead kept him in incommunicado detention, tortured and maimed him. We call upon all Ugandans and all other global citizens and global authorities to join us demand for the release of Sam Mugumya. #SaveSamMugumya #JusticeForSamMugumya

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😂😂😂 Bambi I think President Museveni be thinking the 5 years won’t end. He is the classic example of, “I will cross that bridge when I get there”. Where are those headlines of “I will leave power in 2006”, the problem of Africa is leaders who cling to power etc”

😂😂😂 Bambi I think President Museveni be thinking the 5 years won’t end. He is the classic example of, “I will cross that bridge when I get there”. Where are those headlines of “I will leave power in 2006”, the problem of Africa is leaders who cling to power etc”

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This is how Kween district looked like this evening as Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi BOBI WINE campaigned there. #SpotlightOnUgElections26

This is how Kween district looked like this evening as Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi BOBI WINE campaigned there. #SpotlightOnUgElections26

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Btw, just in case there are new comers here, the “I choose peace” campaign is not directed at these brutes, kidnappers, torturers etc. it is directed at anyone who may want to react to this brutality and impunity in any way; be it by pointing it out, condemning it, challenging it, pushing back against it… #StopStateBrutalityUg

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Btw, just in case there are new comers here, the “I choose peace” campaign is not directed at these brutes, kidnappers, torturers etc. it is directed at anyone who may want to react to this brutality and impunity in any way; be it by pointing it out, condemning it, challenging it, pushing back against it… #StopStateBrutalityUg

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So when the video of Sam Mugumya leaked last week, the military (and the state) instead of releasing him is threatening me. Anyway, sometimes it’s even hard to tell if it is the military or the state because of the decentralized impunity… but I have received a couple of calls; one from someone that said works with “special forces” identified himself as Elly Tumwine and was demanding to know who gave me that video. I told the person that even if I knew its source my training as a journalist wouldn’t allow me divulge sources but I didn’t even know its source because I got it from social media. The person insisted that I was the first to share it and that they have technology to show that. A couple of days later I received another call. This time there were no introductions but the person said they are concerned about my life although they “like the work I do” but publishing that video of Mugumya “was not wise”. Yesterday, I was told (by a different person that doesn’t know about these calls) of a plan to abduct me because the video I shared has caused so much anger and led to some reshuffle.. I am both informing the state that is supposed to protect its citizens of these threats and Ugandans. #SaveSamMugumya #JusticeForSamMugumya

So when the video of Sam Mugumya leaked last week, the military (and the state) instead of releasing him is threatening me. Anyway, sometimes it’s even hard to tell if it is the military or the state because of the decentralized impunity… but I have received a couple of calls; one from someone that said works with “special forces” identified himself as Elly Tumwine and was demanding to know who gave me that video. I told the person that even if I knew its source my training as a journalist wouldn’t allow me divulge sources but I didn’t even know its source because I got it from social media. The person insisted that I was the first to share it and that they have technology to show that. A couple of days later I received another call. This time there were no introductions but the person said they are concerned about my life although they “like the work I do” but publishing that video of Mugumya “was not wise”. Yesterday, I was told (by a different person that doesn’t know about these calls) of a plan to abduct me because the video I shared has caused so much anger and led to some reshuffle.. I am both informing the state that is supposed to protect its citizens of these threats and Ugandans. #SaveSamMugumya #JusticeForSamMugumya

Agather Atuhaire

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A bit about what happened on that dark morning of January 16 2026. People can be heard wailing, begging for mercy, explaining, but they still shot them.. #SpotlightOnUgElection26 #ButambalaMassacre

A bit about what happened on that dark morning of January 16 2026. People can be heard wailing, begging for mercy, explaining, but they still shot them.. #SpotlightOnUgElection26 #ButambalaMassacre

Agather Atuhaire

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I have always wondered how Kifefe Kizza-Besigye always manages to stay calm and respectful amidst the unbearably unprofessional, arrogant and greatly annoying behavior of Baguma. Today he couldn’t take it anymore.

I have always wondered how Kifefe Kizza-Besigye always manages to stay calm and respectful amidst the unbearably unprofessional, arrogant and greatly annoying behavior of Baguma. Today he couldn’t take it anymore.

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Two days after a body of a young Tanzanian that was abducted was discovered floating headless in a river, about a week after her own commission mentioned contradicting figures about people her government killed during the October 2025 elections, Samia Saluhu openly and publicly called upon another head of state to join her in her violence against young people that are demanding for better leadership. How can one woman be this blood thirsty and sadistic? The murders and torture she has sanctioned are not enough yet? The endless tears of mothers are not enough! She has to be stopped.

Two days after a body of a young Tanzanian that was abducted was discovered floating headless in a river, about a week after her own commission mentioned contradicting figures about people her government killed during the October 2025 elections, Samia Saluhu openly and publicly called upon another head of state to join her in her violence against young people that are demanding for better leadership. How can one woman be this blood thirsty and sadistic? The murders and torture she has sanctioned are not enough yet? The endless tears of mothers are not enough! She has to be stopped.

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And where does this leave the endorsers?

And where does this leave the endorsers?

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There were those asking for evidence of the killings in Tanzania. There you go if you have the heart to watch. I have many more. It’s a massacre in Tanzania! #FreeTanzania #SaveTanzania #JumuiyaNiYetu

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There were those asking for evidence of the killings in Tanzania. There you go if you have the heart to watch. I have many more. It’s a massacre in Tanzania! #FreeTanzania #SaveTanzania #JumuiyaNiYetu

Agather Atuhaire

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The same debts you have from the MicroFinance support centre but even when you were not subjected to this level of torture and inhumane treatment, we advocated for your liberty and dignity. Anyway, I found these posts and video amusing.

The same debts you have from the MicroFinance support centre but even when you were not subjected to this level of torture and inhumane treatment, we advocated for your liberty and dignity. Anyway, I found these posts and video amusing.

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Tanzania’s opposition leader Tundu Antiphas Lissu has spent over 300 days in prison. He’s charged with treason for addressing a rally to advocate for “No Reforms No Elections”. He has appeared in court only a handful of times and the trial had been halted for months. Today, Tanzanians filled the Court room to show love and solidarity chanting “Rais”(President). The opposition figure in Uganda Kifefe Kizza-Besigye has spent over 430 days in prison on the same charges. The other is being hunted over charges that are not known. #FreeTunduLissu #FreeKizzaBesigye #FreeEA

Tanzania’s opposition leader Tundu Antiphas Lissu has spent over 300 days in prison. He’s charged with treason for addressing a rally to advocate for “No Reforms No Elections”. He has appeared in court only a handful of times and the trial had been halted for months. Today, Tanzanians filled the Court room to show love and solidarity chanting “Rais”(President). The opposition figure in Uganda Kifefe Kizza-Besigye has spent over 430 days in prison on the same charges. The other is being hunted over charges that are not known. #FreeTunduLissu #FreeKizzaBesigye #FreeEA

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Jajja Namuddu recently called me many times asking to see me. I wondered what the problem was since she had spoken to me, not long ago, on the phone of my colleague Stephen Atukwatse who is one of her representatives. When we met, she told me, “nsaba onzize kumikuttu ntegeze abantu nti obulamu bwange bukyali bubi”! She says she is tired of the back and forth with court which is making her health deteriorate , of the government and National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) refusing to give her back her land which was her only source of livelihood or to compensate her.. she asks that you listen to her plight and continue to help her demand for Justice. The criminal case against her and her fellow accused is still ongoing over a year later, and therefore the civil case against government over what they say was illegal eviction has not commenced. #JusticeForNamuddu

Jajja Namuddu recently called me many times asking to see me. I wondered what the problem was since she had spoken to me, not long ago, on the phone of my colleague Stephen Atukwatse who is one of her representatives. When we met, she told me, “nsaba onzize kumikuttu ntegeze abantu nti obulamu bwange bukyali bubi”! She says she is tired of the back and forth with court which is making her health deteriorate , of the government and National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) refusing to give her back her land which was her only source of livelihood or to compensate her.. she asks that you listen to her plight and continue to help her demand for Justice. The criminal case against her and her fellow accused is still ongoing over a year later, and therefore the civil case against government over what they say was illegal eviction has not commenced. #JusticeForNamuddu

Agather Atuhaire

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“The soldiers broke into the hotel room we are in through the balcony and after they opened the door for other soldiers to come in. They ordered us to kneel down, took our our phones, asked what we were doing and Jackline told them we were writing appointment letters. One of the soldiers told the others to carry everything that was in the room. After that they ordered her (Jackline Tukamushaba) to come with them. some soldiers were in front of her others behind her, all pointing guns at her. We went to the balcony and saw them putting her into a white drone and took a video. Since then we don’t know where she is and we don’t know where to start searching from..” Patricia, daughter of National Unity Platform Vice President for Western Uganda Jackline Jolly Tukamushaba, whose whereabouts Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) denied knowledge of.

“The soldiers broke into the hotel room we are in through the balcony and after they opened the door for other soldiers to come in. They ordered us to kneel down, took our our phones, asked what we were doing and Jackline told them we were writing appointment letters. One of the soldiers told the others to carry everything that was in the room. After that they ordered her (Jackline Tukamushaba) to come with them. some soldiers were in front of her others behind her, all pointing guns at her. We went to the balcony and saw them putting her into a white drone and took a video. Since then we don’t know where she is and we don’t know where to start searching from..” Patricia, daughter of National Unity Platform Vice President for Western Uganda Jackline Jolly Tukamushaba, whose whereabouts Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) denied knowledge of.

Agather Atuhaire

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That she was giving prosecution time to respond to the application!

That she was giving prosecution time to respond to the application!

Agather Atuhaire

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The driver of the car in which people were shot and two died narrating. He says, it was state minister Aisha Ssekindi who ordered his bodyguard to kill them. #SpotlightOnUgElections26

The driver of the car in which people were shot and two died narrating. He says, it was state minister Aisha Ssekindi who ordered his bodyguard to kill them. #SpotlightOnUgElections26

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“…I also disagree with Benedicto Kiwanuka. Why would you be Chief Justice in Amin’s government? Everybody should have walked away. Amin did not understand anything. Had everybody walked away, the Amin problem would have been resolved sooner….You couldn’t talk of judicial independence with Amin. How can Amin say this and you come to the Supreme Court to say the other..” Dr Busingye Kabumba quotes President Museveni in his recent article. The man who said the Bishops wanted him to release the priest and he said no, thinks we can “talk Judicial independence” with him! #UgandaJudiciaryExhibition

“…I also disagree with Benedicto Kiwanuka. Why would you be Chief Justice in Amin’s government? Everybody should have walked away. Amin did not understand anything. Had everybody walked away, the Amin problem would have been resolved sooner….You couldn’t talk of judicial independence with Amin. How can Amin say this and you come to the Supreme Court to say the other..” Dr Busingye Kabumba quotes President Museveni in his recent article. The man who said the Bishops wanted him to release the priest and he said no, thinks we can “talk Judicial independence” with him! #UgandaJudiciaryExhibition

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Anyway, this week’s to do list; young children appearing it Kanyanya court today (only one out of the many that were arrested has been brought to court), filing a habeas corpus application for the lady that was abducted about a week ago with her baby, court appearance for the 36 young people detained in Luwero tomorrow 3rd and Wednesday 4th, Court appearance for the over 50 arrested in Bulenga and remanded to Kigo prison by Wakiso Court, Wednesday 4th, habeas corpus application for National Unity Platform VP for Northern Uganda Lina Zedriga tomorrow 3rd, habeas corpus application for AMPE LAWRENCE, among many others…

Anyway, this week’s to do list; young children appearing it Kanyanya court today (only one out of the many that were arrested has been brought to court), filing a habeas corpus application for the lady that was abducted about a week ago with her baby, court appearance for the 36 young people detained in Luwero tomorrow 3rd and Wednesday 4th, Court appearance for the over 50 arrested in Bulenga and remanded to Kigo prison by Wakiso Court, Wednesday 4th, habeas corpus application for National Unity Platform VP for Northern Uganda Lina Zedriga tomorrow 3rd, habeas corpus application for AMPE LAWRENCE, among many others…

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In Nov after the death of Monica, the mother of two of Kibalama’s kids(twins) I posted that two Good Samaritans had offered to help with the twins’ fees. Here is the update; the first offer was dependent on the guardian’s willingness to switch the child to the offerer’s school. The school is in Kampala. When I finally met the guardians earlier this month they said they can’t separate the children. When I suggested that both children can be taken to this school where the owner will be paying for one of them the guardians said the children’s mother wanted the school they are in. The second offer, the Samaritan sent me 500k last week as the contribution he can afford because of many other financial obligations and the tough economy. The kids’ fees is 1,470,000 each.

In Nov after the death of Monica, the mother of two of Kibalama’s kids(twins) I posted that two Good Samaritans had offered to help with the twins’ fees. Here is the update; the first offer was dependent on the guardian’s willingness to switch the child to the offerer’s school. The school is in Kampala. When I finally met the guardians earlier this month they said they can’t separate the children. When I suggested that both children can be taken to this school where the owner will be paying for one of them the guardians said the children’s mother wanted the school they are in. The second offer, the Samaritan sent me 500k last week as the contribution he can afford because of many other financial obligations and the tough economy. The kids’ fees is 1,470,000 each.

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I think people took ⁦Jim Spire Ssentongo⁩’s message very very seriously😂😂

I think people took ⁦Jim Spire Ssentongo⁩’s message very very seriously😂😂

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I loved this message and thought I should reshare it for mainly foot soldiers here 📌

I loved this message and thought I should reshare it for mainly foot soldiers here 📌

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A national leader, a legislator of 15 years, a vocal advocate of justice and good governance for decades, is disappeared in thin air and we continue business as usual!! It is 13 days today and Muwanga Kivumbi’s whereabouts is still unknown. Some young monkeys (who laugh at a burning forest) will continue saying “he brought it upon himself” until it’s their turn. Is there anyone/anything we will ever be willing to stand up for?

A national leader, a legislator of 15 years, a vocal advocate of justice and good governance for decades, is disappeared in thin air and we continue business as usual!! It is 13 days today and Muwanga Kivumbi’s whereabouts is still unknown. Some young monkeys (who laugh at a burning forest) will continue saying “he brought it upon himself” until it’s their turn. Is there anyone/anything we will ever be willing to stand up for?

Agather Atuhaire

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