KAMPALA; UGANDA...
Mayo De 9th Del 2017....
There was drama in court or as we say in my tribal language "katemba mukoti" as a renowned Makerere University professor appeared before a Buganda Rd court judge to secure her bail from Uganda's largest Prison; Luzira.
The University professor was arrested following her criticism of Uganda's government especially the president of Uganda for the last thirty plus years; Mr. Yoweri Museveni and his wife, first lady and also minister of education Janet Museveni.
Dr. Stella Nyanzi came to fame over a naked protest she undertook at her work place late last year changeling her bosses over her standards as a Makerere University researcher.
From the naked protest she held; most people in the country felt and understood her frustrations. and millions supported and joined her cause.
From her naked protest the good DOC unleashed a cocktail of criticism of the current government that has been in power for more than I have been alive.
Her criticisms centered around a promise that President Yoweri Museveni (President for 30+ years) made during his presidential campaign last year and his wife; the current minister of education failed to implement the promise her husband made.
As a feminist; Dr. Nyanzi focused on a presidential promise that Mr. Museveni made which was to provide all school age children (girls) with menstruation products monthly. The campaign promise was made by the president and to be executed by the minister of education who is currently the president's wife due to the fact anything the president promises to school age children is to be implemented by the ministry of education.
Dr. Nyanyzi took on both the president and the first lady in a well versed series of blogs she posted on her social media platform. But it wasn't until she compared the president to "a pair of buttocks" in a comical way that she began to be questioned by the many state security operatives in the country.
She was first interrogated by security and then arrested without warrant which is mainly the norm of the country's security system.
In the last thirty years and even more recently; the security agencies and the judicial branch of the government have engaged in some of the most gruesome abuses of law in Uganda. Hiding under the constitutional mandate to provide security and fight crime. The security agencies have often mishandled many cases and the judicial often delays justice to suspects.
Human rights watch groups have deemed the police as the most corrupt institute in the country.
The president of Uganda has ruled the country for the last thirty years. And according to him. Uganda is the most democratic country in the world.
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