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Today, I'll be joining Shaka Ssali @VOAShaka on Straight talk Africa to talk about freedom of expression in Africa. Also airing on @nbstv at 9:30Pm [EAT]
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Today, together with fellow leaders we paid a visit to the residents of Lusanja whose houses were demolished last year and delivered more building materials and financial support to help them rebuild their homes.
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We later combed through Kyadondo East Constituency -Namavundu Parish and had an impromptu inspection on the ongoing road works in the Constituency and indeed the work is going on swiftly.
#FunaEndagamuntu
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Today is my 37th birthday. I am very grateful to God for each day that He has allowed me to live. I do not take it for granted considering the challenges I have gone through over the years, the injustices I've seen people go through & the friends I have lost along the way...
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This past year, I came closest to death after the Arua incidents. And because God allowed me to live, I decided to celebrate this birthday with some of the most vulnerable people in our midst, who many times come close to life threatening situations....
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Together with Barbie and other friends, we visited Kasangati Health Center III where we interacted with pregnant mothers as well as those who have recently delivered. We also visited a home run by a good Samaritan, a woman with a big heart called Mrs. Harriet Kasozi...
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We crowned the day with a visit to Sanyu Babies Home where we celebrated & cut cake with babies who were abandoned by their parents at birth or in infancy. I thank the friends who contributed to the items that we distributed at all these places. It has been such a fulfilling day.
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I appreciate all of you friends who took time to send me birthday messages, I am very humbled by your friendship. All I can pledge is that I will continue doing my best to stand for what is right.
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Today we remember the sacrifice of late Archbishop Janan Luwum who was martyred for speaking truth to power and standing for the rights of the people of Uganda. We are encouraged by his example that it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
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He could have chosen to keep quiet and remain neutral which is always safer, but as Archbishop Desmond Tutu cautions, "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse & you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
May his memory be blessed & may we be guided by his example, to always stand for what is true, just & fair even in the face of difficult odds.
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Today, we joined thousands of mourners at the send off the late Bishop imeritus Cyprian Bamwoze of Busoga Diocese who died on monday 11th February.
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On our way back, we were ambushed by crowds waiting for us on the road sides chanting 'People Power, Our Power', at Namawojolo road tall, i was overwhelmed by gifts ranging from Money, soft drinks, Chicken & Nyama Choma, Boda boda riders escorted us till Kampala from Jinja.
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The love these people show to us can not be taken for granted, we pledge to never let them down and to stay to the cause, No matter what it takes.
#FunaEndagamuntu
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This evening, our brother and comrade in the struggle Hon. Francis Zaake Butebi, Member of Parliament for Mityana Municipality, was abducted while in traffic jam, and taken into custody at the Central Police Station.
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He tells me that it is not clear why he has been arrested in such an indignified manner, but suspects they've arrested him over the Arua incidents where he was tortured to near death. The government alleged that the man who could barely see or walk escaped from custody!
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I talked with him a few minutes ago and assured him of our support and comradeship, including taking measures to enable him secure his freedom at the earliest. We shall overcome!
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"I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against." - Malcolm X
#GetYourNational_ID
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I've been asked a couple of times by media & other analysts to comment about the different communications on social media & other platforms about the on-goings in our country, more particularly within the forces of change. Some of those write-ups even indicate me as the author...
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As a leader I can only come in to offer guidance and advice here and there whenever I have time. Therefore, in a few hours, I will give my position.
A blessed Sunday to you all.
#GetYourNationalID
#FunaEndagamuntu
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Remember when I said, "Afande, we are not fighting you. We are fighting for you." This is what I meant. @PoliceUg We are fighting for you. We are fighting for your dignity. For your well being. We are fighting so that you can be respected in your country- in your uniform.
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We are fighting so that your work can be appreciated and not demeaned. We are fighting so that you are not harassed by your superiors for doing your job. We are fighting to put an end to this kind of impunity!
#GetYourNational_ID
#Tuliyambala_Engule
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Yesterday, I addressed students' leaders from different universities in East Africa, at their 3rd Annual Conference held at the Mandela Institute of Science and Technology, in Arusha - Tanzania.
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I also challenged them to understand that Africa's problem has all along never been it's people, climate or anything else- it has been squarely a failure of leadership. I told them that we must work hard to change the fortunes of our people- otherwise we shall have betrayed them.
One Ghetto child who has something to say through Music. Ugandan artiste, activist and leader of the National Unity Platform. Former MP, Parliament of Uganda.