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Opinion: Judge Singiza Karekona – when you serve injustice, expect people to call you out for it!

“I note that from the time the motion was filed and allocated to me until the point when it was heard, I was subjected to numerous attacks on social media in the form of insults and personal threats to my life and those of the people closest to me. While certain of the insults might reasonably fall under the category of fair comment and thus be tolerable, I take particular issue with some of the alleged satire in form of cartoon drawings that suggested that I was probably a Nazi judge. Untrue insinuations were also made that I was very much under the spell of powerful persons in government, an allegation that could easily bring the integrity and competency of this court into question. In many jurisdictions of the world, any depiction of an individual as a Nazi apologist is prima facie evidence of criminal prejudice. That notwithstanding, I wish to remind all those persons who vigorously trolled me as a person on different platforms, as well as via my personal email address, that courts in this country execute their judicial functions without fear or favour on the basis of the law and the evidence. It is hoped that such persons or their surrogates will reflect on their conduct and stop it” (Dr Douglas Singiza Karekona – ‘Rtd. Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye & Another v Attorney General & Another (Miscellaneous Cause 31 of 2025) [2025] UGHCCD 29 (24 February 2025)’ 24.02.2025).

Judge, honourable and the one who presides over the chambers of the High Court – Civil Division at the Twed Tower, along Kafu Road, Nakasero. We are calling you out for your actions.

It doesn’t help that your decision in a case like this is saying that:

“Under section 56 of the Evidence Act Cap. 8, this court is enjoined to take judicial notice of the proceedings of 21 February 2025 in the Chief Magistrates Court of Nakawa at Nakawa in Criminal Case No. 285/2025, in which the applicants were formally charged in the courts of law and remanded. While the court would have wished to answer the issues raised, it would be moot for it to do so. Accordingly, the application is dismissed with no orders as to costs” (Dr Douglas Singiza Karekona – ‘Rtd. Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye & Another v Attorney General & Another (Miscellaneous Cause 31 of 2025) [2025] UGHCCD 29 (24 February 2025)’ 24.02.2025).

We are just seeing the judge is allowing an unlawful detention and arrest of a civilian, that being Dr. Kizza Besigye, and his associates. Judge Singiza are now allowing it to happen and legalizing the prosecution of Besigye without any merit or proof of the criminal conspiracy. They are allowing him to be held on remand and not allowing him to be released on bail.

That’s why we know the other courts changed the charges after moving his case from the General Court Martial to the Civilian Courts. As they knew if they charged him with treason, they could keep him in prison and doesn’t care about his fate as an incarcerated individual.

If the judge wanted favourable words for himself. The actions of his court and his chamber speaks for itself. The manner of which he keeps people detained and doesn’t prove the criminal conspiracy. That just shows he intends to use the instruments of the state and prolong the agony without any justification. Only allow the state to continue to incarcerate people and not prove the allegations that the criminal prosecution is pinning on the civilians. Therefore, the judge should know better, but don’t expect it. He has shown his alignment to the state and the rulers of the Republic. This isn’t an independent judiciary, but one serving the President and his fellow cadres.

Judge Singiza won’t get nice words or spoken softly about. When he orders and ensures the torment of fellow citizens. That’s not when you should expect to be praised or be named of in glory. No, that’s just making sense of things, and the judge should understand the sentiments here. However, he thinks everyone else is stupid and that his just the wisest of them all. Meanwhile, we just know his serving a purpose and a useful tool of the President. Peace.

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Burundi: President blames SOPEBU for the lack of gasoline…

“A preliminary report indicates that the Sopebu records a shortage of 19 million mazout and 12 million of gasoline. Where is this fuel going? Experts in the field say that with the fuel that has come in since November 2024, we should have built up a reserve for the next 4 months. Where is all this quantity? I have implemented the digitalization of fuel distribution via the Igitoro Pass application, without which no station or consumer can receive/distribute fuel. But the first, the second boat came, but the population is still not supplied. Where do you think this fuel is disappearing to? To SOPEBU. This institution has not even been in operation for a year, and its employees are strutting around in suits and ties, pretending to be models when they are wolves in sheep’s clothing. Perhaps we should be deported to Babylon as the Lord once did, to hope for salvation” – President Evariste Ndayishimiye (21-22 February 2025),

The leadership of CNDD-FDD are just showing its nakedness, as the President is blaming Société Pétroliere du Burundi (Burundi Petrol Company) after the Republic is continuing to be hit with lack of fuel and shortages of gasoline. Therefore, the Burundian President is blaming the government entity that imports, stores and distribute petroleum products.

It was only in Mid-November 2024 that the SOPEBU had to ration the usage of gasoline and fuel in the Republic. As if you had a set of registration numbers, you were pre-fixed for certain days to fuel and such. Therefore, the problematic import problems of getting enough fuel and gasoline have been going on for months. The SOPEBU wouldn’t do this if it wasn’t for the necessity.

SOPEBU was only created in February 2024 and by the troubling acts of the state is just showing by this. The creation of SOPEBU haven’t stopped the fuel shortage in the Republic. The CNDD-FDD created it by Presidential Decree. This was made by President Ndayishimiye, but that cannot handle the pressure or have enough funds to ensure the Republic gets enough fuel or gasoline.

It is just amazing that his throwing his own creation under the bus. That the President haven’t given SOPEBU time or the resources to do the right thing. The SOPEBU needs to get the facilitation and the manpower to what it has as a mandate. That’s clearly needed and the CNDD-FDD aren’t capable of doing so. They could create the organization and the agency of the state, but haven’t given it what it needs. If it did..

SOPEBU would have the ability to import and distribute the needed gasoline or fuel to the Republic. That’s what the CNDD-FDD needs to do and the President needs to be aware of what they do. Therefore, this is just attacking a part of the government and thinking people are stupid. The President has to help SOPEBU and not the other way around. SOPEBU needs the President and needs the government to give it what it needs. If SOPEBU doesn’t get that… they are not capable of doing their mandate.

That’s why the President should take some accountability… but we know he will blame others. Instead of acting himself and ensuring the SOPEBU has what it needs. Peace.

Opinion: Mwenda’s fallacies in regard to the Besigye case

“I had restrained myself from speaking or writing about Dr. Kizza Besigye’s hunger strike and the campaign to present him as a victim of a mean and cruel dictator. I am compelled to break my silence in large part because I think Besigye’s sympathisers are hypocrites and delusional. I just saw them in court chanting that President Yoweri Museveni will die and his son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, will cry. Clearly, they know what Besigye was/is plotting. Yet they are cowards not willing to stand for their beliefs even if it means going to jail or being killed for them” (Andrew Mwenda – ‘The Last Word: On Besigye’s hunger strike’, 21.02.2025).

Akon back in the day sang a song “Sorry, Put the Blame on Me” and it’s time that this sort of statement comes from Andrew Mwenda. We know what Mwenda is in 2025. His a government hack and a propagandist.

Well, we know Mwenda hates Besigye and everything he stands for. The principled man as Besigye is in stark contrast to himself who can be bought and used by the regime. We have seen how his mind has changed and what Mwenda has become. Now we are just seeing what Mwenda is spewing of rhetoric and ideals. Therefore, Andrew is a lost cause and been so for years.

Andrew Mwenda is saying the allegations and criminal conspiracy is true. Meanwhile, the courts and the state prosecution have come with no proof, evidence or witnesses proving it. That’s why Mwenda’s implications are flawed. Because he is criminalizing Besigye before anything is proven in the courts. That’s just shows what sort of journalism his committed too. As if, the state haven’t charged Besigye with treason before and nothing come out of it. Not like the state haven’t arrested and detained him with no case ending in sentencing or possible permissible incarceration. Therefore, someone of Mwenda’s stature should know this, but instead sprints to the narrative of the state.

Just read this nonsense…

“Now that is political courage – the ability to stand for one’s beliefs no matter the consequences. But Besigye is a coward who is not willing to stick his neck out for his beliefs. Instead, he wants to hide behind legal procedures to obscure his conspiracy. If Museveni was the devil Besigye sympathisers claim he is, he would not have abducted Besigye from Kenya and brought him before the courts. Instead, he would have done to Besigye what Besigye was plotting to do to him: kill him in Kenya. Besigye supporters know, intuitively, that Museveni is humane, respects peoples’ rights and follows due process. That is why they have been using courts to shield their man from the political consequences of his decisions” (Mwenda, 21.02.2025).

He has already called fans or supporters of Besigye “die-hards” or “hoodlums”, even “radical extremists” so he has vilified the opposition supporters in general. Now he says there is lack of political courage from the ones he has said is totally wrong for years. If he wasn’t worried about these people or the ones associated with Besigye he wouldn’t have called them these names.

Secondly, has Mwenda seen how the government and authorities have acted lately? Has Mwenda seen how the state is acting towards the government through the years? I believe that Mwenda is self-medicated or become blind. His mind has become numb, and he looks away from the actions of the state. Just to be able to defend the injustice, impunity and misuse of force against civilians. Therefore, Mwenda should re-assess himself, but we know that’s too much to ask.

We know he has inner hatred of Besigye and Bobi Wine. He is just proving it here, as his on the slippery slope of accepting the devious parts of government. Mwenda rather wants to be on the side of the butchers, then on the activists and the civilians fighting for a justice and true liberation. Alas, that is too much to ask… Andrew won’t need that, as his paid in full and doesn’t need listen to the pleas of the nation. Peace.

Sudan: Tasees Charter only gives political life to the RSF

This weekend’s establishment of the parallel government through the signatories of the Tasees Charter in Nairobi, Kenya. The various parties and leaders who are signatory is to the Tasees Charter is only allowing Gen.  Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka “Hemeti” to be a “statesman” and a more significant figure. Therefore, the ones accepting this sort of ordeal is selling the nation cheap.

The Sudanese deserves a civilian government, but Hemeti isn’t the one to deliver that. It is only in the written words in a Charter. The General has promised this before and has stopped it from happening. Not like the leadership of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) or the official Government of Sudan are delivering this either. No, none of these parties has issued or proven themselves able to transition to a civilian government. Alas, therein is the problem.

Regardless of just that. The new Tasees Charter is only active and alive in the territories of the Rapid Support Force (RSF) is controlling. The RSF is losing on massive fronts. The RSF is now a losing party and the SAF is getting an upper hand. That’s why the RSF needs a new vibrant look and be visioned in a different way.

The RSF or Janjaweed is known for its violence, extra judicial killings and misuse of power. The burning of villages and killings to keep the power Al-Bashir in office. That’s why I don’t believe Hemeti or his mission with the Tasees Charter.

Hemeti was a Vice at the Transitional Military Council and having a vital part of the Sovereign Council. So, he has been elevated and held a valuable position. Nevertheless, he served the state and had alliances with the army for a long time. This man knows the SAF and what it does. Not like he is a peace-loving character…

It is more empty promises. He only signed the Tasees Charter to look golden and as a man of the people. However, the skulls and killings for decades are haunting Hemeti. He did so for Al-Bashir and continued to do so for the TMC and the Sovereign Council. The RSF aren’t known for selling roses or feeding the poor. No, it has been named in massacres and systemic killings. Therefore, I doubt … Hemeti will change his ways anytime soon.

This Tasees Charter is to solidify Hemeti and his RSF. He got people on his side and other para-military organizations fighting on his side. That’s why they were there, and he now has an political aspect to his rebellion. This is really it.

He could write about salvation and about redemption of the state. The Charter can promise to bring the high heavens and take away all pain or suffering of the world. Nevertheless, that doesn’t make it more true. It is just the way it is…

Hemeti has done this and created this conflict together with former ally Al-Burhan. This is his war, and we know it. Peace.

 

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