A short plea to Gen. Museveni - RELEASE THE 18 MISSING NUP SUPPORTERS, RELEASE SAM MUGUMYA!
You have finally released our Kenyan brothers, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo! The police denied holding them. The army denied holding them. The Attorney General denied their existence in any detention facility in Uganda. The judiciary covered up, saying that any further demand for their production would be akin to squeezing blood from a stone: "I find that one can not squeeze blood from a stone. The state can only produce what it has." The judge ruled.
And then you, Gen. Museveni came out and confirmed what we all knew. "We arrested them because they are experts in riots and are associated with Kyagulanyi's group!" You said this following their release - after 39 days of incommunicado detention. No one was allowed to access them during this period. Not their family members. Not their lawyers. Not their medical personnel. In violation of every constitutional principle, they were just kept away, tortured, and interrogated - until you decided that it was time to release them and send them back to Kenya.
Now, these same denials have been made by the police, the army, the UHRC and the courts about the missing 18 NUP supporters, even when most of them were picked up by security operatives in broad daylight between 2019 and 2021. Similar denials have been made about Sam Mugumya who was picked up by military personnel in the presence of many onlookers.
Here is my single plea. You have made your point. Everyone in Uganda and East Africa now knows how ruthless you are. Everyone knows that you're capable of disappearing people for weeks, months, or years on end. Everyone now knows that neither the police nor the judiciary will protect them from the powerful fangs of a criminal state.
Unlike our Kenyan brothers, these missing Ugandans do not have a foreign country to pressurise your regime. They are ordinary Ugandans - whose lives have been put on a halt for all these years.
The point has been made. Now, please release these 18 Ugandans. Release Sam Mugumya. Let them go and have a life!
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📌 9th/December 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿