Daily Monitor
Monday March 08 2021
A photo montage of President Museveni (left) and his son Maj Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba (right), commander of SFC.
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President Museveni highlights efforts that government has taken to ensure a peaceful country
“Therefore, traitors, local parasites and their foreign backers, be informed that the forces that liberated Uganda and have defended it ever since, are there and will always do their duty. When it came to two days before the voting day, about 24,000 soldiers of the UPDF were deployed in most of the 2,184 sub-counties of Uganda to defeat the scheme of the undemocratic Opposition, which was not to allow the elections to take place because they knew that they would lose,” President Museveni
Daily Monitor
Thursday March 04 2021
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In personal accounts below, parents and spouses tell a story of their loved ones being grabbed in their sight by armed individuals spotting military fatigues.
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Dozens of families are claiming that their members have been abducted by security agencies and are being held incommunicado while their searches for them have yielded nothing. In personal accounts below, parents and spouses tell a story of their loved ones being grabbed in their sight by armed individuals spotting military fatigues.
Hawking freedom of missing man
Juliet Sanyu, sister of Moses Mbabazi, 30
Our family only got to know about the disappearance of my brother a month after he vanished on December 8, 2020.
Uganda held presidential and parliamentary elections on January 14. In the months before, armed men in “drones” abducted people from markets, taxi stops, petrol stations, roadsides, and homes. Hundreds of disappearances have been reported in the press and on social media. President Museveni himself, discussing what he described as “so-called disappearances”, said last month that the army had arrested more than 300 people. Most of those taken are young men with links to the National Unity Platform (NUP), the opposition party Bobi Wine leads.
For this story, Al Jazeera spoke to the relatives of 17 people who have allegedly been abducted in central Uganda since November 2020, as well as witnesses, activists, local political leaders and lawyers. We also spoke to 10 more people who say they were taken by security forces and released, after periods of detention ranging from a few hours to two months. Where possible, we cross-checked stories with official documents such as court fi
Mother spends Shs 8 million in futility searching for kidnapped sons
March 3, 2021 Solome Nakibuuka
December 8, 2020, will forever stay inked in the memory of Solome Nakibuuka, 44, a resident of Busabala, Wakiso district. It’s the day when her two sons; 23-year-old Denis Matovu and 25-year-old Richard Sonko went missing.
Nakibuuka says her sons were cab drivers, with Sonko often chauffeuring money-loaded South Sudanese nationals around Kampala city while Matovu was a gig driver, chauffeuring randomly anyone who wanted special hire car services.
On the day they were kidnapped, Nakibuuka says Matovu left home at around 6:00 am, going to meet his brother Sonko at Lukuli-Nanganda trading centre in Makindye, who had got him a gig of driving a lawyer for a full day. He did not communicate with any of them during the day.