It's been an interesting weekend. Former government spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo went off on the regime's recent human rights record on #TheCapitalGang yesterday. You could feel the passion, anger & disenchantment of an elder in his voice. Then a PLU lady says she returned barefoot from Mbale "City" bse she found some youth there who can't afford shoes on their own after 40-years of NRM & surely needed her shoes more than she did. Still in Mbale, Bebe Cool refused to be interviewed by a journalist who didn't have "proper shoes". All this is important bse PLU say they want to champion "Museveni's Thoughts" - the "thought" which has left so many Ugandans without shoes, that is. Meanwhile, the PPST, @rggoobi who told Ugandans his economy would "whack" (some people say they heard "work") went on radio wearing a designer "New York" cap to tell Ugandans to live like the poverty the regime dug them into and stop eating spaghetti & fried food. He didn't ask the same austerity of his bloated regime that has 529 MPs, 83 cabinet Ministers, 250 presidential advisors, organises state funerals worth billions every few weeks, & goes around ditching cars to bishops, traditional leaders & other people that otherwise could afford to buy their own cars. All this while Karamoja people starve to their death! Then Museveni and Kamuntu seemed not to like any form of contact with poor lady from Sheema. They sat close to her, saw her, gave her an envelop with what seems like like, but didn't want to shake her dirty hand in the case of Museveni, or hug her in the case of Kamuntu. Did they think she was carrying a disease? Was it that they thought her visible poverty would contaminate them? Anyway, interesting weekend - but we are Ugandans, hope the week will be better than the weekend! ✌️

Habibi, an interesting contrast btn the @JudiciaryUG's handling of Brian Kirumira alias Brian White's case & @MaleMabiriziHKK's. Brian is accused six serious counts: Aggravated human sacrifice, Manslaughter, Possession of narcotic drugs, Conspiracy to commit a felony, Giving false information to the police, Rash and negligent acts. The facts before court are that Brian ritually killed a 25-year-old lady, Caroline Nalubwama, & then claimed she died as a result of cooking gas explosion. Caroline's family dispute the "cooking gas" claim saying some of her body parts were even missing, and there was bleeding on her body. Police investigation, while not conclusive, was consistent with claims made by Caroline's family. The police say Brian lied to them. Regardless, after 180 days of remand, Brian was - rightly - given bail to access medication. In this video, he is with his relatives (children?) recovering in a hospital. Meanwhile, @MaleMabiriziHKK was arrested on two counts of "publishing false news" & operating his TikTok account without a license from UCC. Male has been in jail well beyond 180 days - & counting. When, after 180 days, he applied for bail, court - more like Winnie Nankya Jatiko - played pingpong for weeks. Then, granted him cash bail (unusual for mandatory bail) and asked that he deposit a passport he doesn't have with the court. When he told the court he didn't have a passport, the prosecutor called him "irresponsible", despite the fact that 97 per cent of Ugandans don't have a passport, to begin with! The burden was put on Male to prove he doesn't have a passport. He wrote to the Ministry of Internal Affairs which wrote back in confirmation that he doesn't have a passport. Still, Male remains in jail!