Vincent Nuwagaba

If there is anything that maddens me, it is injustice either against a particular individual or against a particular community. I love humanity.

On Friday 17 October, President Yoweri Museveni presided over a function at Speke Resort Munyonyo where his campaign song entitled “Tubonga Naawe” was launched. The song overly praises Mr. Museveni and his NRM government.

Makerere University started in 1922 and in a space of less than eight years from now it will be celebrating 100 years of existence. Makerere is the oldest and largest university in East Africa and arguably in the entire Great Lakes Region.

The Uganda Governance Monitoring Platform (UGMP) under the stewardship of the NGO Forum recently launched a mid-term audit of the NRM Government in what it called its fourth term. The UGMP faulted the NRM leadership for its abysmal failure to implement “a citizens’ manifesto”.

I find the 2013 Uganda quite humorous, quite enthralling but also bemusing as much as it is amusing. Since 2008, the government has treated me as a ball to be kicked by any policeman; it has taken me to be a drum; it has turned me into a punching bag.

Moses Mukisa is a 27 year old young man from Wakiso District. He was beaten by graduated tax collectors and had his testicles kicked on March 22, 2003 at a place called Manyangwa which led him to lose his manhood. Mr.

I was awestruck to watch on Television on 26 October that the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) won a continental award as the leading National Human Rights Institution (NHRI).

I was baffled by press reports that President Museveni said he would have retired to his farm but when he scrutinizes people who want to take over from him, they lack focus to drive the ‘vehicle’.

I read with utter amazement, shock and consternation the 10 April 2012 response to my article in Pambazuka News, titled, “As a Ugandan citizen, I demand justice or death”, purportedly written by Florence M. Munyirwa, Public Affairs Manager for the Uganda Human Rights Commission.

My pen has since the beginning of 2011 been silent. So many people have been wondering as to what could have happened to me but some have insinuated that I joined Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).