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Wilfred Businge retweeted
Sad!
August 26, 2026
Sam Mugumya abducted by armed men in plain clothes at NIM Hotel in Nyamitanga, Mbarara City, bundled into a drone vehicle and driven away to unknown destination.
August 28, 2025
Sam Mugumya’s lawyers to the State before the High Court: Where is Sam Mugumya? Produce him dead or alive.
Lt Col Edgar Musasizi (Director of Civil Affairs at the Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs): We (the military) have searched all our detention facilities and records but found no entry relating to Sam Mugumya. The UPDF, therefore, has no knowledge of his whereabouts.
Police: We are not holding Sam Mugumya.
September 5, 2025
Justice Collins Acellam to the State and the UPDF: Produce Sam Mugumya in court or account for his whereabouts within seven days.
October 2, 2026
CDF Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba: Yes, I have Sam Mugumya. He is fine but I will execute him soon.
October 7, 2026
Sam Mugumya’s lawyers to Government before the High Court, again: Where is Sam Mugumya? Produce him dead or alive.
October 15, 2026
Lt Col Edgar Musasizi (Director of Civil Affairs at the Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs): Sam Mugumya has never been abducted or detained by SFC or held at any gazetted detention center under its command or control.
October 26, 2026
Judge Simon Peter Kinobe: I have given the State two weeks (until November 9, 2026) to conclude investigations into this matter.
Ugandans: Where is Sam Mugumya?
Wilfred Businge retweeted
One day we or our children shall study and get amazed what generation we were
August 26, 2026
Sam Mugumya abducted by armed men in plain clothes at NIM Hotel in Nyamitanga, Mbarara City, bundled into a drone vehicle and driven away to unknown destination.
August 28, 2025
Sam Mugumya’s lawyers to the State before the High Court: Where is Sam Mugumya? Produce him dead or alive.
Lt Col Edgar Musasizi (Director of Civil Affairs at the Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs): We (the military) have searched all our detention facilities and records but found no entry relating to Sam Mugumya. The UPDF, therefore, has no knowledge of his whereabouts.
Police: We are not holding Sam Mugumya.
September 5, 2025
Justice Collins Acellam to the State and the UPDF: Produce Sam Mugumya in court or account for his whereabouts within seven days.
October 2, 2026
CDF Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba: Yes, I have Sam Mugumya. He is fine but I will execute him soon.
October 7, 2026
Sam Mugumya’s lawyers to Government before the High Court, again: Where is Sam Mugumya? Produce him dead or alive.
October 15, 2026
Lt Col Edgar Musasizi (Director of Civil Affairs at the Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs): Sam Mugumya has never been abducted or detained by SFC or held at any gazetted detention center under its command or control.
October 26, 2026
Judge Simon Peter Kinobe: I have given the State two weeks (until November 9, 2026) to conclude investigations into this matter.
Ugandans: Where is Sam Mugumya?
Wilfred Businge retweeted
UPDATE: Raymond Eden Asiku, one of the individuals who swore an affidavit in the habeas corpus case, has told court that he was detained at the same facility as Sam Mugumya, although he could not identify the location because he was blindfolded. Asiku says Mugumya was alive when they were held together, adding that he and others would help carry Mugumya because he was unable to walk on his own.
#MonitorUpdates
📹: Abubaker Lubowa
WATCH: NUP Secretary General @DavidLRubongoya has condemned what he describes as a tendency by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) to deny holding individuals in its custody, amid concerns over the whereabouts of missing persons, including political activist Sam Mugumya.
#MonitorUpdates
📹: Abubaker Lubowa
Wilfred Businge retweeted
Sembabule is a crime scene
The NRM chose illiterate people as MPs for Sembabule District and rejected all the educated ones.
Theodore Ssekikuubo, Jet Tumwebaze and Gorret Namugga were locked out in favour of illiterates Emmanuel Rwashande, Sodo Aine Kaguta and Florence Nambazira.
None of the selected MPs have academic qualifications to be in parliament.
Wilfred Businge retweeted
The reason our leader was abducted and put behind bars was to erase him politically, and possibly eliminate him for good. If Besigye is politically gone, why labour to want to talk to him? I once said if Mwenda talks, pay attention to what he says. Much of it is factually wrong.
Andrew Mwenda, with a straight face, falsely claimed that the People's Front for Freedom (PFF) did not win a single seat in the current (12th) Parliament, and the host, Terry Kahuma, did not challenge him.
PFF has two MPs in the 12th Parliament:
~Betty Aol Ocan, Gulu City Woman MP
~Asinansi Nyakato, Hoima City Woman MP.
Wilfred Businge retweeted
Journalists lately call themselves journalists but have no idea what journalism means. They are only armed with school certificates.
Andrew Mwenda, with a straight face, falsely claimed that the People's Front for Freedom (PFF) did not win a single seat in the current (12th) Parliament, and the host, Terry Kahuma, did not challenge him.
PFF has two MPs in the 12th Parliament:
~Betty Aol Ocan, Gulu City Woman MP
~Asinansi Nyakato, Hoima City Woman MP.
Wilfred Businge retweeted
Radio is evolving, not dying. In the UK, 87% of adults tune in to Radio every week, in the US it’s 92%. Radio still dominates in car listening globally, in Uganda it remains the most widely used medium, well ahead of TV and social media at 82% of population listening everyday. What could be struggling is the traditional style of listening through FM or AM frequency.
Bottom line, the stations currently struggling are those who are not evolving.
Wilfred Businge retweeted
It's the hope that kills. At this point, Terry is Mwenda's mouthpiece. He's hosted him 5 or so times in as many months.
Andrew Mwenda, with a straight face, falsely claimed that the People's Front for Freedom (PFF) did not win a single seat in the current (12th) Parliament, and the host, Terry Kahuma, did not challenge him.
PFF has two MPs in the 12th Parliament:
~Betty Aol Ocan, Gulu City Woman MP
~Asinansi Nyakato, Hoima City Woman MP.
Wilfred Businge retweeted
In 2011, John Nagenda called the then cabinet “very supine” when he decided to give away Mabira Forest to Mehta. I think that’s when he used the “who will bell the cat?” saying.
15 years later, it seems OO is the only politician and NRM ideologue willing to bell the cat.
Ofwono Opondo:
In the parliamentary caucus of the NRM, to which I belong, the issue of human rights has been persistent during the five months we have been in Parliament.
I have spoken to the Chief Whip and to the NRM leaders in Parliament (ministers), and there has not been any efforts to have that discussion in the caucus.
And my reading is that they're unwilling to engage because of repudiation. They don't know what will follow if they allow that discussion in an official forum.
Wilfred Businge retweeted
Quietism. #ResistLawlessness #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
Ofwono Opondo:
In the parliamentary caucus of the NRM, to which I belong, the issue of human rights has been persistent during the five months we have been in Parliament.
I have spoken to the Chief Whip and to the NRM leaders in Parliament (ministers), and there has not been any efforts to have that discussion in the caucus.
And my reading is that they're unwilling to engage because of repudiation. They don't know what will follow if they allow that discussion in an official forum.
Wilfred Businge retweeted
Look who’s next in line for the same gig!
#ResistLawlessness #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
Wilfred Businge retweeted
Thank you elder
We are all victims of bad governance
On the floor of Parliament this afternoon, Ofwono Opondo, the MP for Older Persons (Eastern Uganda), raised the issue of continued arbitrary arrests, abductions and torture of citizens by security forces.
He specifically cited the abduction of Praise Aloikin Opoloje about three weeks ago.
He wondered whether this was a new law for the NRM.
Wilfred Businge retweeted
It’s nothing short of a miracle that those who once shielded the regime are finally speaking out, acknowledging that the abduction and torture of citizens by @MODVA_UPDF is real and must come to an end.
On the floor of Parliament this afternoon, Ofwono Opondo, the MP for Older Persons (Eastern Uganda), raised the issue of continued arbitrary arrests, abductions and torture of citizens by security forces.
He specifically cited the abduction of Praise Aloikin Opoloje about three weeks ago.
He wondered whether this was a new law for the NRM.
Wilfred Businge retweeted
Medard Lubega Sseggona has expressed concern over the challenges facing his client, former Kampala Lord Mayor @EriasLukwago_, following a last-minute court postponement reportedly caused by a medical emergency involving the presiding judge.
@MSseggona said the legal team had deliberately avoided discussing the case extensively in the media to allow court proceedings to continue without unnecessary public commentary.
He revealed that no new court date had been confirmed, adding that the lawyers would return to court next week to seek another date.
Sseggona also highlighted the family’s financial and emotional difficulties, citing Lukwago’s health concerns and caregiving responsibilities.
#NTVNews
🎥: @lbrahim_Kavuma
Wilfred Businge retweeted
Justice David Matovu skipped court to tend to his sick mother, effectively stalling the bail application of @EriasLukwago; a critically ill father trapped in prison , desperately seeking release for his own urgent medical attention.
No new date has been given! Oh Lord😭
Wilfred Businge retweeted
Hanifa Kawooya is one of the most disturbingly unhinged, uncultured, ill-educated, repugnant, overly drunk-on-power Ministers in @KagutaMuseveni’s government.
She’s the kind that you’re frankly ashamed to call a leader in your country.
Wilfred Businge retweeted
So what next for Makokha?
What crime did he commit?
For how long will he be on remand?
Why are Ugandans treated like this?
No! You are not Forgotten Dear Sam 🙏
#FreeSamMakokha
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
