Mr. President, I write this letter on behalf of the majority Ugandans whose lips are tied due to fear of their lives.
Many Ugandans would wish to tell you exactly what am doing, but they fear to go through what happened to people like Kakwenza, Kirumira, and many other Ugandans who lost their lives in due course.
Mr. President, I have discovered that people of your age have a tendency of forgetting their promises, their deeds and or their objectives, and so, you’re not exception to that matter.
Mr. President allow me to remind you for just a few things that you personally introduced under your governance.
- In 1995, you and your colleagues brought a constitution where you significantly emphasized on human rights alongside other valuable articles forming that constitution.
Yes, Article 24 of the constitution provides for protection from inhuman treatment.
Article 29 provides for protection of freedom of conscience, expression, movement, religion, assembly and association.
Generally, Article 20-59 are all to the effect of human rights.
It is important to note that a constitution is the supreme law of our motherland, it should be treated with the most outmost.
In that regard, Mr. President allow me to inform you that you have betrayed yourself by committing crimes against humanity, acts which are against the very constitution you formed and where govt is a signatory to human rights bodies worldwide.
Many Ugandans lost their lives just after showing their interest in politics and many others have been detained in prisons for years without being presented in Courts of law to hear their cases yet Article 28 of the Constitution provides for fair and speedy hearing.
Mr. Kaguta, I vividly remember in 2005, you significantly pioneered the restoration of multparty politics, whereby every Ugandan is entitled to belong, practice and express his or herself through any political party of his or her choice as provided for under Article 29(e).
The gist of my concerns stems on this very Article, Mr. President sir, Ugandans would wish to understand the reason why you reintroduced political party system, yet you don’t want people to exercise their rights as per the constitution.
Article 1(4) gives power to the people to decide who to lead them and how they should be led, Article 3 (5&6) of the same prohibits anyone from abrogation of the constitution.
Mr. President, your security on the orders of the so called above have endlessly abused Ugandans to the extent of abusing their human rights as provided for in the constitution.
The most recent case was the prohibition of NUP party to launch their party headquarters at Makerere Kavule with your unreasonable men in security uniform giving vague/foolish reasons that they don’t have enough security to control security at Kavule but rather they deployed army and other security agents allover Kampala just to prevent Kyagulanyi and his supporters from accessing the venue.
These are barbaric acts which we should not experience under the operation of the constitution you made by yourself.
Unless, there is a hidden provision under the constitution that supporting Kyagulanyi is a criminal offence under the laws of Uganda which was not disclosed to Ugandans and or you’re afraid of being tried of crimes against humanity if powers goes into hands of your opponents.
40 years in power are more than enough for a resourceful president to put a country like Uganda into and advanced economy, we would be inventing high technology rather than planning to run after your opponents on streets, Uganda is capable of doing what Malaysia is doing, but instead you chose to invest our money in fighting Ugandans who sleep with empty stomach whenever they come out to fight for their rights.
Mr. President, much as I know how your people are capable of causing harm to me,
I will not stop telling you what is right and where you go wrong.
Ugandans have been sinned more than they deserve, if it was not you, the the poor Ugandan would be the middle income person of Uganda today, with no doubt, you have ruined our lives.
I have for so many times heard you castigate against the late Amin and Obote, but trust me, what Amin did in 9 years of unrest was and still far better than what you have done in 40 years of shame.
I know you’re envy of them because they performed better than you in a smallest period with limited resources available by then, the only thing you have done better than the two is *corruption* the rest you’re a totally a failure, security wise, Amin killed innocent Ugandans openly whereas your regime has killed more than the number silently.
In my conclusion, allow me to inform you that, Uganda needs peace more than we need you, most of the people around you do not love you, but they’re using you to steal public funds and retain their positions.
Hopefully, my letter is not offending you but rather a piece of reminder since you might have forgotten your earlier promises.
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Hopefully , this won’t be my last letter to you before I die mysteriously.
Mulindwa Andrew
Human rights activist
