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The people of Uganda have just gone an entire week without the internet.
And when the online blackout ended, Ugandans discovered their democracy may well have been stolen whilst they sat in the digital dark. x
And the lesson to other authoritarian nations is as clear as it is concerning: Controlling the internet allows you control your people.
Which is why Nigeria must amend its constitution to publicly state that such blatant violation of our democratic rights will never happen here.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni last weekend claimed his sixth successive election victory – despite widespread allegations of election fraud and voter intimidation.
Ugandan President Museveni arrests opposition rival Bobbi Wine
After declaring victory and a sixth, five-year term in office with a much-reduced majority, President Yoweri Museveni put his main opposition rival, the 38-year-old musician Bobbi Wine of the newly formed National Unity Platform party (NUP), under house arrest.
When protests erupted after the announcement of the election results widely seen as rigged, amid rising social and economic hardship in the wake of the pandemic, the security forces dispersed the crowds, killing at least two people, and cordoned off the party’s offices in the capital Kampala.
Speaking to the media surrounded by soldiers and police, Wine said he was “worried about my life and the life of my wife.”
Insurrectionists & Boko Haram hallucinate the same ideology Listen to article
Hallucination is now a just cause for real violence? Stop the hypocrisy and call a spade a spade, all right-wing terrorists are the same locally or internationally, based on supremacist ideologies that are repulsive to the sick and tired majority of peace-loving voters. Since Election Losers cannot have their ways peacefully through democracy, they terrorize and threaten their own communities with violence to overthrow legitimate Governments at home and abroad as regime change!
Since the 80s, Mental Hospitals have released most of the inpatients normalizing aberrant behaviors than ever. What happened in the so-called Bastion of Democracy where insurrectionists and insurgents took over, based on the frivolous cause of disappointment over loss of free and fair election by a landslide , places good causes people died for on the same level as holding onto privileged life. Indeed, dictators and religious
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