Uganda Law Society (ULS): Let’s fight corruption, not human rights (01.01.2025)

Kenya: Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) – Statement on the Protest against Abductions and Enforced Disappearances in Kenya (30.12.2024)

Kenya: Chief Justice (Emeritus) David K. Maraga, EGH – New Year Message to Fellow Kenyans (30.12.2024)

Kenya: Joint NGO Press Release on the abductions in the Republic (30.12.2024)

Kenya: Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) – Statement on the Recent Surge of Abductions/Enforced Disappearances in Kenya (26.12.2024)

Opinion: Ruto is now trading seats for further stability by appointing Kenyatta allies into cabinet

“Former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s allies in cabinet. Ex-minister Mutahi Kagwe appointed CS Agriculture. Lee Kinyanjui appointed CS Investment, Trade and Industry. Ruto appoints ex-governor Nderitu Muriithi as chairman KRA. Appointments come 10 days after the Ichaweri meeting” (Citizens TV Kenya, 19.12.2024).

Today it’s official that former President Uhuru Kenyatta has ensured longevity in politics. As he has ensured fellow allies are appointed in the cabinet. There are now six CSs who are there because of their allegiance to Kenyatta.

For President William Ruto after taking in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) CSs and now the Kenyatta Allies. He has a team of fellow leaders that cannot go against him. This will give him peace and give buy him time. As he has the ODM and the Jubilee on his side. These are major victories for Ruto without costing him much.

This is giving Ruto the ability to get Mount Kenya silenced and more at ease after the ousting of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Kenyatta comes to his aide and also get to have a say. As the talks and negotiations made this happen.

Ruto has now the favours of his predecessor and also his former nemesis Odinga. They are both within his midst and they are all working together. That just shows that the political elite isn’t listening or planning to pivot towards the ideals of the Gen Z. The Gen Z have been left behind, but the “broad based” government is used as a shield to safeguard Ruto.

That’s why Ruto can be giddy. His gotten ODM and Jubilee or Kenyatta on his side. This has cost him practically nothing. He is getting peace and getting new CSs but that won’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Just like things didn’t get any better with the ODM in the Cabinet. They are favouring the same sort of schemes and current government policies. Meaning they aren’t working in another direction. Alas, that is the trouble here.

Kenyatta and Odinga has given Ruto a lifeline. They are selling the future on the small tokens of positions. These two are willing to do so…

These three leaders know the game and it is rigged. All of them are playing it out and are now ensuring their allies are eating. That is happening because they saw what the Gen Z could do and now, they can all go in the big tent together. In that way they are looking like they are unified, but at the same time just ensuring they have their ability to secure influence. This is politicians for life who are using their leverage to ensure their pockets.

The ones who don’t see it. It is time to open your eyes. Peace.

Kenya: Kikao – Kikao Speech (18.12.2024)

Kenya: Kongamano La Mapinduzi (KLM) – Response to President’s State of Nation Address (15.12.2024)

Besigye behind bars for 52 days [on the 7th of January 2025] without proper trial as a civilian…

“Dr. Kizza Besigye and Hajj Obed Lutale have been remanded to Luzira Prison until Jan 7, 2025. This follows a delay in constituting their defence team after lead counsel Martha Karua was denied a practicing license by the Uganda Law Council” (Nexus Media, 11.12.2024).

You know the Makindye Military Court and the authorities have targeted the opposition leader and activist Dr. Kizza Besigye, as they kidnapped and apprehended him in Nairobi, Kenya. Yesterday it was official that he will go 52 days without a proper trial or produced in court. As a civilian tested and tried in a Court Martial.

Meanwhile, we aren’t hearing about witnesses, production of evidence or any proof of the alleged crimes or conspiracy to do so. No, the state is just busy blocking the representation of Besigye in the Court. Also, they are just remanding it and not actually doing it. The typical act of the courts under this Museveni era.

They are deferring cases, keeping them remanded for ages and never ever delivering anything sincere in the Courts. That is what is going on here, as the political gambit and works are reflected in it all. As the lawyers are barred from entering and such. This case just shows how the President is having a hold on every entity of the state.

Dr. Kizza Besigye is captured, apprehended and charged because of who he is, and the state manufactures criminal conspiracy easily. We have seen how many times they claim the opposition plans to blow up gas-stations and create riots in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Region. That happens so often…

So, to believe the charges on the questionable gun-charges on him. Shows how the state works and elaborately tarnish any open dissent. Besigye is the nemesis that never left the realm of the state. A man who is vocal and has the ability to be relevant because of his message. A message the state wants to silence and doesn’t want people to react too. Therefore, it is so easy to make up a criminal prosecution and go after him.

We know this is made up charges and the misuse of power of the authorities. They are doing this because of the paranoia of the State House. The President cannot get over the enemy or his way of operating. This is why the President uses the Court Martial to prove his power. Alas, it shows how weak he is too. Because he has no validity or sincerity using it.

Besigye is a victim of his popularity and his way of manoeuvring. If Besigye was more silent and in the dark. He wouldn’t be touched, but since his in the spotlight and daring the state. That’s why they pick on him and pin him with crimes. Therefore, we are seeing it happening yet again. To a man that deserves better.

When he returns to the Court Martial over the new year’s…. He will be in custody for 52 days and counting. That just shows the impunity and misuse of law enforcement against a civilian. Besigye is a victim and should have his freedom. The guns and the allegations will be squashed, because they are fiction. Fiction deserves to be in books and not in Court documents. Peace.

Law Society of Kenya (LSK): Statement on the Law Society on the Decision of the Law Council of Uganda on Hon. Martha Karua, SC. (10.12.2024)