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The People of Uganda, especially the Bazzukulu. Kopango. Iriyo maber. Apoyo kwir maber recently.
Having thanked Ugandans for voting very well in the recent Local Council 1 (LC1) elections, we shall get time to say more about this issue later.
However, for today, I want to inform the Ugandans that the great journalist Andrew Mwenda is back with his schemes. Having failed to destroy our promising pharmaceutical industry by calling our innovators Mathias Magoola and David Senfuka conmen, and declaring me senile, he has now discovered a new national emergency in Uganda. This is the young man known as Stephen Nuwagaba.
This young man has laid “siege” on State House and the Security Agencies. There is big danger to the country. Since I am not dead, and I am still able to use my pen to defend the Ugandan and African Revolutions, I will tell you about Nuwagaba.
Nuwagaba is a young man in his mid-twenties who came to me as a fugitive, a victim of torture and maiming, whom some elements in the Security Services were trying to silence, including threatening with death.
He has actually been a patient on account of torture and maiming (okumuzya), and trauma because of the torture, for many of the months he has been under my care! I had to send him to the hospitals in Uganda and abroad to save his life. He seems to have improved, but some of the maiming is still there.
The torture and the maiming are allegedly by elements in the security forces, some of whom are now facing charges in courts.
The terrible thing is that these alleged torturers and maimers were belonging to our security forces. Is this what we and the People of Uganda fought for? Do you know how much we, and all the People of Uganda, sacrificed to get freedom from killers, torturers and dictators?
If you do not know, let me give you a few examples.
First of all, see the People, members of FRONASA (Front for National Salvation) that were publicly executed by (former President) Idi Amin on the 11th of February, 1973. They were: Obwona and Labeja in Gulu; Masaba and Namirundu in Mbale; Nkoko and Ntale in Jinja; the mathematician Karuhaanga (Omuharabu, because he was very brown) in Mbarara; Abwooli Malibo and Kasolo in Fort-Portal; Karambuzi, Bitwaari and David Kangyire in Kabaale; and a kondo in Kampala. See their pictures. Namirundu was only 17 years old.
Members of FRONASA whom Idi Amin publicly executed on February 11, 1973. (Courtesy)
Members of FRONASA whom Idi Amin publicly executed on February 11, 1973. (Courtesy)
Members of FRONASA whom Idi Amin publicly executed on February 11, 1973. (Courtesy)
Publication on the executions. (Courtesy)
Publication on the executions. (Courtesy)
Then see the skeletons and skulls of the Luwero Triangle for the period 1981-1986. Just on the 9th of June, 1981, Bazilio Okello cut with pangas nine of our People in Kikandwa village. The 9 included: Lutamaguzzi; Nkangyirwa (omusomesa); Ssentongo (the veteran of King’s African Rifles); and others.
The skeletons and skulls of the Luwero Triangle for the period 1981-1986. (Courtesy)
The skeletons and skulls of the Luwero Triangle for the period 1981-1986. (Courtesy)
The skeletons and skulls of the Luwero Triangle for the period 1981-1986. (Courtesy)