Hon. Zaake’s demise: Today, the Police is giving him a one month bond to travel abroad!

“Police has charged Hon. Francis Zaake with treason & unlawful escape. Police has also bonded him for a month to allow him travel for medical treatment” (NBS Television, 03.09.2018).

How much impunity can republic put on one man? You just have to wonder, as his lawyers have been trying to put the man, whose on police bond to treatment abroad. Which is common for Members of Parliament in Uganda. If Hon. Francis Zaake, as National Resistance Movement cadre, the state would have paid him, covered the expenses and ensured safe travel to the hospital abroad. Alas, he is a fugitive of the state, which where he represent a constituency. Charged with treason and with unlawful escape from custody.

Where he is in confinement by the state at the Kirrudu hospital in Makindye district, where the MP is located now. Where a CMI Officer is guarding his door and not entering people in, not even medical personnel. AS over the weekend, he only got painkillers as the tortured MP are awaiting medical treatment. That is the state of affairs concerning Zaake.

This is coming as he was tortured after the Arua By-Elections mid-August and has since then been dropped off at another hospital, before getting re-arrested at Entebbe Airport, as he tried to get medical treatment in India on the 31st August 2018. Therefore, the MP has done what he could, but the state is blocking him from doing so. By all means possible. That is what they have done until this point of time.

While charging him with treason and trying to escape custody, which was impossible as the soldiers dropped him off at Rubaga Hospital on the 19th August 2018. Therefore, it will now be two months of awaiting possible medical treatment, as the state fights and shows all disregard for this man. They are clearly not giving him a second chance or even shadow of a doubt, as he is lingering in uncertain stage.

Zaake, deserves the ability for treatment, then the charade of forged charges and unproven allegations of treason can conspire, but by then he will be in good health and be able to answer to the state produced charges against him. Right now he is bed-ridden and not knowing what sort of damage done to his body. Other, than the obvious beatings and the torture, which could have harmed anywhere on his body. That is why his medical treatment is needed, but the state is afraid of what the reports might say. As they know what they did to him before they dropped him off as a sack of potatoes at Rubaga Hospital. Even if they have cleared him right now, they have worked against it, and shown him no mercy. They kept this man for so long, who knows what sort of damage the waiting time has done to his body.

Time to challenge these oppressors and not let them win. Time for them to hear the drums, speakers and reality, as one of our own is left behind guards without medics to treat his body. He has now gotten a one month bond to travel, let see how that goes. Hope and pray, that they can help him. Peace.

The Great is not that great in our time!

I know, the title is ironic, but someone has to say it. The leaders, His Excellency and other titles are outrages, as their reach and extent of power are not reaching us. We are seeing wars prolonged, we are seeing oppressive regimes continues for decades and we are seeing fleeing refugees starve; even drown on their way to safety. In addition, with the knowledge of all that, we don’t let the value of life sink in ourselves. It is more important to have the Nespresso or even try out a new type of Coca-Cola, because why not?

We are at a point in time. Where our leadership is more self-serving, where the leadership is all about having a career and being wise as PR person, not showing ethical regard or even moral backbone, not showing consistency. However, as long as you are in the lime-light and showing yourself as useful you have a place in the places of power, but not because you’re doing the commons or the world any good.

We are at this stage, because we all have made it this way, we have accepted these men and woman, these stars and golden booted leaders whose sole justification for ruling, is that they have climbed to the pedestal and now just can bounce around to different positions. Without really delivering any significant change or care for that matter. They are just changing hats and titles, than at the next junction moving on from the sorry souls it was supposed to take care off! Whom minds about them right? Only poor schmucks like me, right?

Moreover, I hold no power, none. I get less power, than a single AA battery at this point. My hands cannot even light a lamp; even I wished I had half of Hulks power within my veins. However, that is not the case; I am just an ordinary man in flesh and blood.

That is why we have to care, because next time, we could be the victims of oppression, of thieving public officials and of people who uses the security to hunt us down; who knows when it is our turn to be under-fire. No one knows this, but it could be.

That is why we have to aspire to something great, to overcome these obstacles and search for the higher purpose, to help our brothers and sisters. Not just await the next cup of coffee or coke and hope that fate just pops by, cheerio, right?

We have to get our leaders not to be just con men, leaders who pose as public officials, but are there just to eat. We needs leaders who actually works against the stoppage of wars, the ones that will stop selling arms to oppressive regimes and brutal dictatorships. We have to inspire people to transcribe to the facts, that the world will only get better if the elected leadership actually works for humanity and not for a golden booted career. That is what we have to install and prescribe too, if not these leaders will guide people like blind sheep and laugh in chambers. Because they are paid in gold, while we are taxed to our necks. In addition, for what? Therefore, they can afford Vitamin Water, while most cannot even get clean water in their tap.

Let us get serious. We got too; we cannot hold on to this and accept this token. The injustice and impunity, there is time for retribution and results, not played around like Donkey of the Day, but become men and woman who charge the leadership and expect delivery. That is justice, as these people are supposed to represent us. Peace.

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