Nicholas Opiyo (Pronouns He/Him)
@nickopiyo
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A crusading Human Rights Attorney; Fellow, @kennedy_School ’s @CarrCentre , 23; Columbia Law 23; Human Rights Tulip,21 Recipient, #Dignity #Equality #Freedom .
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Those who would wish to understand my approach to social media wankers & hecklers would do well reading the Rev. Dr. Martin King Jr. 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail.
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I've recovered my password security keys with the help of
@Google
, regaining access to my work email & social media pages for the first time since my arrest & incarceration in Dec. I'm grateful for your support &solidarity. If they intended to scare me, they picked a wrong target
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I can now confirm that Hon Bobi Wine
#FreeBobiWine
is on a KLM flight out of Entebbe Airport. I just saw him off. We will now embark on getting Hon Zaake to leave for medical treatment too. Thank you for all your prayers and support
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In my many years of human rights work, when a person goes missing in K'la, the first place to check is the basement of Block C of the Chieftaincy of Military Inteligence. I've recorded many gory stories of survivors of that secretive dungeon. A one Capt. Okumu is in charge of it
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My best friend has passed away. You gave us, and this works so much. RIP Dad
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Anyone know the person in the picture below? I would like to speak to him about the beating of journalists yesterday at the UN Human Rights Office in Kampala. ANy information will be helpful. Thank you.
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Where are you going, my neighbour asked this morning. To work, I replied. But your permit was suspended, he continued. Yes, I retorted. What's suspended is a piece of paper, not my mind. I'll go on giving my service to those who need it, I concluded. We laughed & went our way.
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Hajji Nadduli, Museveni’s former minister without portfolio, & V/NRM Chair for Buganda, like Bukenya, the former V/President, mourns the sudden death of his promising son. Our condolences. It’s no joke now, is it? Like the many whose kids were gunned down, I hope he finds justice
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Who are these foreign nationals flying around with the son of the president? Does anyone know them?
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People can judge all they want, but
@IsaacSsemakadde
is a brilliant, unconventional & rebellious lawyer. Sometimes you need these sorts of folks to shake the system. He may say a few choice words about me, but that does nothing to lessen my admiration for the man & the lawyer.
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Let it be settled that I left the country (Uganda) & taken residence at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy. Let's re-sharpen the tools for the work ahead.
#WillBeBack
better & more resolved
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When you are filled with belief & hope; & diligently work hard at it, a door opens. Never mind when one closes, walk to the next one. HOPE. BELIEVE. HARD-WORK.
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With government ministers being arrested for stealing iron sheets, tansphobia, and homophobia, we could do with a break - a good story about Uganda. Thank you
@ghettokidsug
and
@BritishTalent
. You all are winners already but best wishes in the competition.
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A friend gifted me a personalized Third Machester United jersey for the 2023/2024 season. He sent it via DHL.
@URAuganda
is asking me to pay 400,000 UGX in tax for a shirt worth 70 pounds. I’ve told them to give the shirt to the Commissioner General of URA to wear. The…
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I've been trailed by unknown men, he said. Once I confronted them, asked why they were following me, I ain’t Opiyo, he told them. Why wd you think we’re trailing Opiyo, the men retorted & drove off. Victor Ochen has tested a fair share of my troubles for our striking resemblance
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You fought a good fight, ran a good race. Rest in Eternal Peace (RIP) Counsel
@AnthonyWameli
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Not ever since
@Winnie_Byanyima
have I seen a partner to a politician under State persecution so tenacious, so strong & supportive as
@HEBobiwine
’s partner. You have our full support & admiration. It will be well Barbie both for your better half and for this country.
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The journalist should do everything not to become the news himself/herself, especially when delivering news. When the journalist becomes the news, the news they seek to deliver will be lost. Your job is to deliver the news, not to become the news itself.
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These are he sort of threats young people advocating for
#FreeBobiWine
are getting. This sort of threats speaks of the various ways & means being deployed to intimidate people exercising their rights.
#RespectRights
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When the army arrested, tortured
@HEBobiwine
& held him incommunicado at the Makindye Barracks denying him access to lawyers, doctor & family, Med Kagawa, negotiated access, drove me in his car to Makindye with bullets flying over from a downtown riot. We'll miss you. RIP.
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I've been pouring over the hundreds of messages sent to me here & on other platforms & I've to say I am, to borrow
@VOAShaka
now popular phrase, profoundly honored & exceedingly humbled by your hearty messages of encouragement. I wish I could respond to each one of! THANK YOU.
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Thank you
@NUP_Ug
@HEBobiwine
@DavidLRubongoya
@JoelSsenyonyi
& the entire team for inviting me to the launch of your offices. I leave with the sad memory of your colleagues missing/disappeared and extrajudicially killed in the last couple of years. We must commit to seeking…
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Blocked three times by the state but on the forth attempt there is a mammoth turnout at
@HEBobiwine
Kyarenga concert.
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I’d have thought a public vaccination of the country's leader (
@KagutaMuseveni
) would go along way to answer two things, to wit public confidence in the vaccine and conclusive reply to the allegations of having recovered a secret dose of another vaccine.
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There’s a concerted effort to purge the web of all video & still footages of the atrocities committed before, during & after the 2021 Ugandan general election. Our effort is to preserve them. So if you have any footage, with time stamps, please share it. DM privately & directly
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Our offices were broken into last night. The intruders were only able to access the reception area & made off with a desktop computer. The alarm system may’ve halted them in their tracks. We’re working with
@G4S
to get to review the incident
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The actions of Uganda's security agencies in the district of Kayunga are neither a show of strength nor wit. it may be the clearest show of self-doubt, weakness & fear.
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Don’t fire
@UNRA
boss for this road signage in Gulu. We could not resist a selfie after
#FreeBobiwine
bail ruling today
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I found this on a social media group and thought it was profound and worth sharing.
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There’re so many levels in which this is simply wrong -maybe bordering on fraud. You can’t borrow money from a foreign lender ($10m), use it for years, even pay back some & when you run into financial difficulties, turn around to say you borrowed in error. Honor your obligations
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The logical thing to do is halt this charade of a campaign process; recall the candidates & agree on a modus operandi for what is left of the process; & importantly, ask the EC to either take control of the process or save us the time & resources &declare the predetermined winner
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We’ll be writing to the National Bureau for NGOs reminding them of this & other documents filed with them & other authorities in Jan this year. Audited accounts, source of funding et al. We’ve always acted above board & repudiate any representation of unlawful conduct on our part
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Revisiting the killings in Kampala during the 2021 general elections. The BBC Africa Eye has a good 30 minutes documentary. It shall be recorded, documented and not in vain.
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A picture that speaks 1000 words....Inter generation at Kyarenga
#KyarengaConcert
#KyarengaBusabala
@HEBobiwine
@ckaheru
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Hon Zaake has finally left the country abroad Ethiopian Airline for treatment in India
#FreeZaake
Many thanks for all your support and prayers.
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I’ve profound admiration for
@AndrewMwenda
. He has a good head over his shoulder. If he spoke a little slower & less frequently, on a few selected - as opposed to any & all subjects - he’d be one of the country’s leading thinkers.
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Mass free testing to identify the areas of concentration of the pandemic would allow localized and targeted lockdown measures and redressing the situation. A blanket lockdown is both counterproductive & has deep economic impact. (non-scientific view)
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In the coming days, I will be writing to the tech giants
@Facebook
&
@Google
about this letter from
@UCC_Official
urging them to disregard it for lack of premise, abuse of due process & curtailment of human rights in the context of political campaigns
@Maina_Kiai
@Benetech
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And with that the London show came to a resounding success -
@HEBobiwine
what a man, what a show and what a message! Thank you
@NubianBukenAli
@BarbieItungoK
@SirDanMagic1
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I'm immeasurably grateful for all your messages & the hashtag you set all set up & participated in. I may've still been in jail but for your loud voices demanding for my release. There're many others not as fortunate. Our commitment to fighting for human rights must & will go on
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What happened yesterday in mid-eastern Uganda was plain simple -an assassination attempt. A car carrying a presidential candidate shot at with live ammunition in several places by the army. The regime has taken a war posture in a campaign period
#RespectRights
#AccountabilityNow
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Police from the Crimes Inteligence Unit have prevented our lawyers from accessing
@nbstv
’s
@SamsonKasumba
or witnessing a search they are undertaking in his premises in Naalya. These actions are a continuation of the violation of the rights of Samson
@CanaryMugume
@Snduhukire
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American actor
@terrencehoward
shows up in Kampala, & is granted audience to
@KagutaMuseveni
, the Ugandan President. He pitches a business idea that sounded like a rumbling of a crackhead
@nytimes
@washingtonpost
@KarenAttiah
. It is genuinely hilarious, if not sad.
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I do not know the woman MP the subject of
@ZaakeFrancis
remarks but judging solely by her utterances in parliament saying ‘we do not want him in our house,’ he ‘does not represent humans in this house,’ and the reaction of her female colleagues in parliament, I am tempted to…
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A truly brilliant, brave and socially conscious academic. We celebrate you
@SpireJim
for your excellent work. No amount of intimidation will suppress an idea whose time has come.
@chapterfourug
’s recognition is only but a token of our appreciation of your innovative activism
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Thank you
@SpireJim
. I am not sure about the hairy chest though. And the name is Opiyo. The letter ‘Y’ is really important for my Acoli identity. Happy Holidays.
#SoManyMemories
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Because one of the lawyers has been declared persona non grata (PNG) by the Ugandan regime, part of our legal team strategy meeting had to be held in Nairobi, Kenya. Defending rights has a huge cost we must all pay
@HEBobiwine
@karamagi_andrew
@bobamsterdam
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The wall will close in on those who violate human rights here or elsewhere, now or later. The protection of the state is temporary. The EU has joined the call for a Magniskey citation for violators of rights
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The individuals involved in this video are from Room 75 CPS Kampala. They work for the Flying Squad. We have the names of the two beating Yunus Kawooya, the suspect. When we verify this information, we will make them public and pursue them rigorously
@AKasingye
@PoliceUg
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These macabre acts are being carried out by a small group of trained-for-purpose individuals. The president called them 'my commandoes,' but in the shadowy intelligence agency, they're known as 'warriors.' They number about 150 individuals, mostly male, trained from Nakasongola
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Authorities at the Kitalya MiniMax Security prisons raided my cell & confiscated all my books, notes, diary & boxers a day before leaving the facility. My author autographed copy of Political Order & Politica Decay that had kept me company was taken too. Yesterday I replaced it
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This picture represents the very problem the Ugandan youths are struggling against. A young legislature (representing the future) against an old, jaded diplomat (representing the past refusing to leave the stage). We must turn the page as a country
#Peace
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My complaint about the extortionist tax practices at
@URAuganda
was not a plea for help. It was an outrage against an injustice. They can have the shirt. I have one already. I certainly will not pay a dime in unjust taxes. The CG can have the shirt.
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I will today receive the German Africa Prize 2017 from the German Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier here in Berlin. There will be a special performance by Geoffrey Oryema. I thank the staff/Board of
@chapter4uganda
our partners, supporters & friends. I owe lots to you all
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The Speaker of the Ugandan parliament is doing her very best to vindicate her critics & skeptics. She’s not disappointing. Hon. Jacob Oulanyah, Hon. Francis Ayume & Hon. James Wapakabhulo must be turning in their graves. Other former Speakers must be in shock & awe
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The Source of the Nile bridge connecting Jinja & Buikwe districts in Eastern Uganda is a work of architectural beauty
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Exhibit 1: Sworn affidavit before the High Court. Macabre acts. Yet authorities feign ignorance and promise to investigate. If a human life matter, then we ought to stop these sorts of actions. Hold those responsible to account.
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The video here is the reason, inter alia, why I think the election of the Law Society leadership matters a great deal. It’s also the reason I believe character, not buzz words; thought processes & records should be closely examined lest we end up at this stage where we’re scorned
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The last time I met this chatty diminutive hospital Executive was in Aug, 2018 at Kirudu Hospital in K’la. He & other doctors were attempting to forcefully administer medical treatment on
@HEBobiwine
&
@ZaakeFrancis
after the Arua debacle.
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The Speaker of Parliament doesn't have the power, in the Constitution, Rules of Parliament, or the Administration of Parliament Act, to remove any member of parliament. Any such threat is empty & mindless. The power rests in the whole house after a Rules and Privileges Committee…
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The National Bureau for NGOs has notified us of the indefinite suspension of the permit of
@chapterfourug
for what they term failure to file returns & disclosing our sources of funding. We are working with the authorities to clarify what we believe is a misunderstanding
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We arrived safely in Gulu. The lawyers continue to be in a state of suspense as to what the state intends to do in this continuing due process abuse in the Bobi Wine’s case
#freeBobiWine
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African leaders are at the UN ‘begging’ for everything/anything from debt ‘forgiveness’ to ‘support’ for their refugees hosting business while their windbags at home are barking (neo)colonialism when questioned by the same folks their leaders are begging. The irony!
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I told a TV reporter during an interview early in the week that the former opposition leader in Parliament has three options after his disputes with NUP.
First & most likely for him to return to the comfort of Mengo/Catholics embrace, from whence he perfected his politics.…
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I’ve spoken to dozens of human rights practitioners, including those working for the
@UHRC_UGANDA
. I can confidently say that the majority of the views of Madam Wangadya (the Chair of the Commission) are fringe if not her self-serving views. Many are deeply concerned about cases…
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The violent unlawful arrest of
@KakwenzaRukira
by non-uniformed armed men believed to be from the Crime Intelligence Unit of the
@PoliceUg
only makes his point - uninteligent integligence unit. I hope they see the point & release him forthwith. The pen is mighter.
#freekakwenza
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It is in times such as these that you’ll realize that the country does not need an old rumbling grandfather but a sharp minded leader keen on details & reflective of the impacts of their decisions on people’s lives
#Staysafe
#MaintainDignity
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People do change when confronted with new facts but this has to be the most dramatic political summersault of our time. BONK, our new IGP at her best then and some may argue now, depending on your side of the political discourse. Thank you
@DailyMonitor
for this piece of history.
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The police have violently abducted Bobi Wine from the airport, forced him into a police ambulance and is being driven to unknown destination.
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The Uganda Police have violently blocked Hon Bobi Wine from traveling outside of the country in spite of the court declining to do so when being released on bail earlier in the week. This is absurd to say the least.
#FreeBobiWine
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As someone who has acted for
@Facebook
in the TVO case in Ireland, I can confirm that the sites cited in the
@UCC_Official
letter haven’t violated any community standards or haven’t been found by a court of law to have done so. The letter is thus a fuss over nothing but prejudice
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Sometimes I feel like giving up ... but I will live to see another day
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Yoweri Museveni, Ugandan President, and Son Are Accused of Crimes Against Humanity - The New York Times
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At the height of his power Siraje Bakaleke, 36, was a boisterous & brutal police officer. He reigned terror, ordering the torture of countless; detaining incommunicado & maiming his victims. That he's on the run from the law should be instructive to those in service of the police
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Happy Birthday to you, Ladit
@kizzabesigye1
. You have and continue to embody political clearheadedness, consistency, and foresight. May you continue to inspire as you have in the years past.
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A little context and history lost in the NUP - Mpuuga debates
Before being graciously elevated (by appointment) to Deputy President of a political party and national-level politics as the Leader of the Opposition, Mpuuga was a provincial, Muganda, Catholic, and feuding DP. MP…
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In the end, it won't matter who wins the Kayunga district by-election. The real victory is the exposure of the fragility of the status quo & what we all a democratic election. The show of force is like the proverbial monkey,the more it's exerted the more it exposes our weaknesses
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Many would like us to think this is an aberration - no, it’s the modus operandi. It’s happened too frequently that the gaslighting of those painting this as ‘acting’ or ‘false’ is looking plainly mindless. If it does not outrage you, nothing will. (Picture of a Ugandan torture…
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I am delighted to have been appointed to the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy, a global network of civil society activists, scholars, parliamentarians,thought leaders, journalists, &funders who are committed to advancing democracy around the world
#Democracy
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This retired Bishop found his voice in retirement and how eloquent he has spoken! I hope those who have ears will hear.
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I will ask
@ntvuganda
to excuse me from any debates with a shouting & saliva spitting quest. I do not want to lose any little respect I may have for any such quest. I am happy to take part in healthy & constructive debates only. My experience last night was harrowing
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Museveni’s entire political career has been built on the thesis that the post-independent Uganda political problems were caused by sectarian politics. He has called traditional leaders and post-independent political leaders all manners of derogatory names. Is this thesis rally…
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Their admirable public personas aside, you even admire them more as a family when you have a personal encounter with the ‘First Family’
@HEBobiwine
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This how the Ugandan soldiers today treated unarmed citizens for welcoming
@HEBobiwine
There is no excuse for this sort of criminality
#RespectRights
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This is succinct. It should help those either confused or deliberately obtuse about the Black Lives Matter Movement. Do not be gone deaf folks to this serious issue.
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I came to Harvard under less than ideal circumstances & soon after charges against me were withdrawn but to suggest, as some have, that 'I've run away, 'fled the country, or 'seeking asylum' is preposterous. Please regard them as falsehoods. I'll return home after my Fellowship
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We all have things that outrage us. For me, no apologies, I feel stronger about innocent unarmed mothers, children & young people shot dead at point-blank range by the security forces than towards a security official beaten with a hammer or a car whose windscreen is damaged
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If, as I’ve read online,
@nyamadon
is succeeding
@rkabushenga
at
@newvisionwire
as its CEO, we first must congratulate him. But then promptly ask whether he’s being appointed to spite
@rkabushenga
. Social media handler for
@KagutaMuseveni
, yes. CEO? The jury’s out on this one.
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When the crowd charged toward our car on the way back from a Gulu,they chanted chegona, chegona (Segoona), man power our power. Hon Segoona lowered his car window & replied, it isn’t man power but people power.He turned to me &repeated Chegoona & we burst out in laughters & drove
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A one Nyeko Andrew seen here in the picture was the medical personnel in the ambulance that abducted Bobi Wine at the airport last night. He looked on when Bobi was being slapped & beaten by his captors inside the ambulance. We will pursue this to the end
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When was the last time Uganda’s president came to the US? What sort of reception is he going to get in the face of accusation of brutality & gross abuse of human rights? Is this a test of the US’ commitment to its stated values? Will the US govt confront him about his records?
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The
#KyarengaConcert
song that got the crowd asking for encore and many talking long after the concert. I do not speak the King’s language (Luganda) but got the song humming in my head
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The people of Rwenzori & indeed all countrymen & women will recall the brazen act of wanton & revenge killing by the Ugandan army in Kasese in Nov. of 2016. In this shot, a cultural institution is burnt down in a needless highhandedness. Remember this when casting your votes
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I’ve represented many NUP leaders & supporters when their rights are infringed but I think this hate-ladened online trolls & vitriol of anyone you disagree with is tactless & alienating. I’ve suffered it & now see a sustained pattern of the same against the Chief Justice
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The court delivered the summary judgment, declining to nullify Uganda's anti-homosexuality law. We disagree with the findings but look forward to receiving their detailed reasoning and consulting on our next steps.
To base a decision on public sentiments, purported cultural…
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You arrived at the start of a pandemic that wrecked a personal tragedy to you & your family & to an entire nation. Yet you never wavered in your commitment to supporting the Uganda health systems in its response to the pandemic. Amidst intense debates, you stood firm in…
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The president must promote the commandant of the Kasese killings Gen Elwelu to the highest level if he can’t hold him to account. The higher he is, the easier it is to hold him to account. We will not, must not forget the 2017 killings in Kasese
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