Uganda: ‘Who Is Safe On A Sinking Ship?’
By Black Star News Photos: YouTube Screenshots In sympathizing with Ugandans on June 28, Law Society of Kenya’s 49th President, Senior Counsel Nelson Havi, writes on X (formerly twitter); “General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni likely incapacitated from serving as President of Uganda on account of advanced age has been toppled by his infant son. I cannot remember his name. The infant tyrant has embarked on abrogating all freedoms and liberties entrenched in the post revolution Constitution. Our sympathies to the people of Uganda.” The Museveni son in question is Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba; the Chief of Defense Forces and Senior Presidential on Special Operations. He also heads the Patriotic League of Uganda; a political pressure group with about 305 of Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement lawmakers, including the speaker of Parliament and his deputy, subscribing to it. The law bars serving military officers, as are civil servants, from participating in partisan politics. “As for NTV and Daily Monitor they have been great clowns for my father for 40 years now. They made billions of shillings [Uganda’s legal tender] on the torment of thousands. But those days are over! Mzee [Swahili for an old man of whom Museveni is now 81], has handed them to us [the military he heads],” tweeting Gen Muhoozi posted on June 19. Museveni has been in power from January 26, 1986 when he toppled the Gen Tito Okello-Lutwa military junta. Then army commander Gen Okello-Lutwa had ousted President Milton Obote on July 27, 1985. After shutting down the aforesaid media houses in the dead of June 28 mid-night and their associated outlets following which security personnel remain heavily deployed in the premises, Muhoozi, in a series of tweets would declare that he does not believe in a free press. He also maintained that the media outlets will only be reopened with his express permission; adding that some stories now forthwith have to be cleared by his office. “In Uganda, I do not believe in a free press…From now on ALL bad stories about Uganda have to be cleared by my office,” the general roared. No one is said to be allowed to enter into or leave the premises of the besieged media outlets. Museveni has been at loggerheads with the 1992-established Daily Monitor over its critical reporting which the ruling establishment views as “unpatriotic” with the country’s biggest independent daily facing several shut downs, including the 10-day closure in 2013. Established in 2007, NTV was switched off shortly after its inauguration. Muhoozi says his father cleared him in 2017 to close any media house in the country. “I have the power in Uganda to shut down any media house I want to. I have had this power since 2017. This power was given to me by my great father President Museveni,” Muhoozi tweeted on June 28. “In functioning States, the Attorney General, Minister of Justice, IGP [Inspector General of Police], Chief Justice, Chairperson [Uganda] Human Rights Commission, UCC ED [media regulator Uganda Communications Commission’s Executive Director], etc would have resigned in protest of Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s insubordination,” Kampala Deputy Lord Mayoress Emeritus, Human Rights Activist and member of the opposition People’s Front for Freedom, Doreen Nanjura Omutatina, says on June 28. “Instead,” she adds on X, “they prioritize lucrative salaries over national duty, betraying the sacred oath they undertook. By choosing complicity, they bury a nation that will ultimately swallow them too. No one is safe on a sinking ship. Like their predecessors, the system will inevitably discard them. Make no mistake, their silence is active cowardice. By enabling this lawlessness for a paycheck, they are signing their own political death warrants. History will remember them as greedy bystanders who watched their nation burn for silver. They are building their own gallows, and when the system turns on them, they deserve every bit of the isolation and public scorn that awaits them.” Human rights lawyer Eron Kiiza paints even a bleaker future for the media industry and practitioners in Uganda. “The military crackdown on @ntvuganda, @DailyMonitor, @933kfm and associated media houses is not simply targeting those corporate institutions but also their management and employees. ‘Arrest warrants for MD [Managing Director], GM [General Manager], editorial managers have been left behind.’ Same story for some Heads of Departments,” Kiiza writes on June 28. On June 23, Muhoozi warned that “The foreigners, lackey media and a few controlled civil society organisations thought they could hoist themselves on our sovereignty and independence? They will learn differently.” And the Nairobi, Kenya-headquartered Nation Media Group conglomerates’ NTV and Daily Monitor, the “lackey media” have started “learning differently” with the ongoing excruciating shutdowns.
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In sympathizing with Ugandans on June 28, Law Society of Kenya’s 49th President, Senior Counsel Nelson Havi, writes on X (formerly twitter); “General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni likely incapacitated from serving as President of Uganda on account of advanced age has been toppled by his infant son. I cannot remember his name. The infant tyrant has embarked on abrogating all freedoms and liberties entrenched in the post revolution Constitution. Our sympathies to the people of Uganda.” The Museveni son in question is Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba; the Chief of Defense Forces and Senior Presidential on Special Operations.
He also heads the Patriotic League of Uganda; a political pressure group with about 305 of Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement lawmakers, including the speaker of Parliament and his deputy, subscribing to it. The law bars serving military officers, as are civil servants, from participating in partisan politics.
“As for NTV and Daily Monitor they have been great clowns for my father for 40 years now. They made billions of shillings [Uganda’s legal tender] on the torment of thousands. But those days are over! Mzee [Swahili for an old man of whom Museveni is now 81], has handed them to us [the military he heads],” tweeting Gen Muhoozi posted on June 19. Museveni has been in power from January 26, 1986 when he toppled the Gen Tito Okello-Lutwa military junta. Then army commander Gen Okello-Lutwa had ousted President Milton Obote on July 27, 1985.
After shutting down the aforesaid media houses in the dead of June 28 mid-night and their associated outlets following which security personnel remain heavily deployed in the premises, Muhoozi, in a series of tweets would declare that he does not believe in a free press. He also maintained that the media outlets will only be reopened with his express permission; adding that some stories now forthwith have to be cleared by his office. “In Uganda, I do not believe in a free press…From now on ALL bad stories about Uganda have to be cleared by my office,” the general roared. No one is said to be allowed to enter into or leave the premises of the besieged media outlets.
Museveni has been at loggerheads with the 1992-established Daily Monitor over its critical reporting which the ruling establishment views as “unpatriotic” with the country’s biggest independent daily facing several shut downs, including the 10-day closure in 2013. Established in 2007, NTV was switched off shortly after its inauguration. Muhoozi says his father cleared him in 2017 to close any media house in the country.
“I have the power in Uganda to shut down any media house I want to. I have had this power since 2017. This power was given to me by my great father President Museveni,” Muhoozi tweeted on June 28.
“In functioning States, the Attorney General, Minister of Justice, IGP [Inspector General of Police], Chief Justice, Chairperson [Uganda] Human Rights Commission, UCC ED [media regulator Uganda Communications Commission’s Executive Director], etc would have resigned in protest of Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s insubordination,” Kampala Deputy Lord Mayoress Emeritus, Human Rights Activist and member of the opposition People’s Front for Freedom, Doreen Nanjura Omutatina, says on June 28.
“Instead,” she adds on X, “they prioritize lucrative salaries over national duty, betraying the sacred oath they undertook. By choosing complicity, they bury a nation that will ultimately swallow them too. No one is safe on a sinking ship. Like their predecessors, the system will inevitably discard them. Make no mistake, their silence is active cowardice. By enabling this lawlessness for a paycheck, they are signing their own political death warrants. History will remember them as greedy bystanders who watched their nation burn for silver. They are building their own gallows, and when the system turns on them, they deserve every bit of the isolation and public scorn that awaits them.”
Human rights lawyer Eron Kiiza paints even a bleaker future for the media industry and practitioners in Uganda. “The military crackdown on @ntvuganda, @DailyMonitor, @933kfm and associated media houses is not simply targeting those corporate institutions but also their management and employees. ‘Arrest warrants for MD [Managing Director], GM [General Manager], editorial managers have been left behind.’ Same story for some Heads of Departments,” Kiiza writes on June 28.
On June 23, Muhoozi warned that “The foreigners, lackey media and a few controlled civil society organisations thought they could hoist themselves on our sovereignty and independence? They will learn differently.”
And the Nairobi, Kenya-headquartered Nation Media Group conglomerates’ NTV and Daily Monitor, the “lackey media” have started “learning differently” with the ongoing excruciating shutdowns.
