We shall sort all Ugandan ‘terrorists’ by all means
February 17, 2021 NUP supporters at court in Masaka
In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe tells us of the lizard that fell off a high Iroko tree.
Looking around and there was no one to applaud it, it gave itself a nod. Up till now it is still nodding. It is not always a vice to blow one’s own trumpet. Sometimes onlookers are too naïve to understand our achievements without explanation. But even if you have just fallen off a tree like the proverbial lizard, let it not be known to all that it was a fall.
Kidnapped NUP supporters fed on rotting food
February 16, 2021 Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba Masaka Municipality MP with the two youths
On top of the excruciating beatings, recently released opposition National Unity Platform supporters have said that they were fed on rotting food during detention.
The political contest ahead of the January 2021 general election was preceded by reports of covert security operations in which scores of people from different parts of the country went missing after they were reportedly abducted by armed groups driving in numberless vehicles.
President Yoweri Museveni last week said the arrests were carried out by military commandos who were going after elements he called terrorists planning anarchy in the country. A number of them who have since returned home, describing their detention as a nightmare crafted in both physical and emotional torture.
Daily Monitor
Tuesday February 16 2021
A UPDF officer whips a woman and her child as former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi campaigned in Nakasongola on November 28, 2020. President Museveni (insert) is accused of ignoring human rights violations committed by security agencies. PHOTO/ ABUBAKER LUBOWA.
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President Museveni’s speech last Saturday about the state of security in the country appeared intently peppered with facts, half-truths and revisionist commentary. He decidedly cherry-picked facts in regard to his address on Uganda’s relationship with the West a few days after the European Union Parliament recommended sanctions against individuals and organisations they claim are responsible for human rights violations during the recent general election.
Dear NUP elected officials, you are soldiers of Besigye’s Plan B
February 10, 2021 Some of the elected NUP MPs
Ahead of the Kyadondo East by-election in 2017, I caught up with aspiring candidate, Counsel Nkunyingi Muwada at Tipsy in Wandegeya.
Nkunyingi and I come a long way. I was his campaign agent in Northcote State (young fellows know it as Nsibirwa Hall) when he stood for Makerere University guild presidency in 2005. We lost. As active members of the Makerere Muslim Students Association (MUMSA), Nkunyingi and I sustained the debating forum that happened every Saturday at the university mosque. Nkunyingi is such a loquacious and ceaseless conversationalist.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 10 2021
This file photo taken on December 21, 2020- shows NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine receiving donations from his supporters in Ibanda district during electoral campaigns before the January 14, 2021 polls. PHOTO/DAVID LUBOWA.
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Mr Kyagulanyi welcomed the good gesture by the newly elected NUP leaders and urged them to work for the people who elected them into office.
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National Unity Platform, (NUP) leaders from Mukono District on Monday surprised their party president, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, by returning Shs25m meant for facilitation of polling agents during the recently concluded elections.
In the run up to the elections, money was a top priority for most leaders to either carry their party flag or campaign for their candidates.