Asuman: The torturous detention of Kankwenza Rukirabashaija could cost you all, your ambition inclusive.
Salutations General!
Tororo – January 6, 2022: I am Odaka Asuman from Tororo municipality. I am also the National Coordinator, National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED)-Uganda
Ndugu, with your generosity I wish to salute you for the other good works you are doing for OUR country. I emphasize “OUR” because I detest the new feeling by some people in some circles who want to consider this country their estate, our collective natural resource heritage as their family tree inheritance and our collective purse their ATM.
I thank you because the uniform you put on is supposed to signal and symbolize to us all a sense of national unity, collective security and pride, but not the identities of the Victors’ over the occupied.
Those of you who put them on, have inadvertently chosen to sleep in the cold so that the rest of us sleep soundly and safely in our houses.
For those of you performing that noble duty sincerely and patriotically without any sense of entitlement, you deserve all the kudos and respect in the world.
Commander, on the 28th December 2021, a colleague who thinks I am always informed about certain news sent me a WhatsApp message asking me to confirm the terrifying news he had got of how some suspected gunmen had surrounded the house of Counsel Kakwenza Rukirabashaija with intentions likely to be mischievously deadly.
I quickly rushed to Mr Kakwenza’s Twitter page and found he had indeed sent out “a please come and help me” Twitter message informing the world about the precarious situation that surrounded him and his family.
Hours later his lawyer Eron Kiiza confirmed his brutal abduction by “armed to the teeth” mean-looking descendants of Adam.
Kiiza’s narration of the process was horrifying, terrifying, tear extracting, heartbreaking and saddening for where the country seems to be heading.
Hours later, a chest-thumping Tweet emerged purportedly from you warning how the arrest of Mr Kakwenza Rukirabashaija is going to serve a lesson to all those who insult others.
Seven (7) days after horrendous detention incommunicado, (completely offending both the spirit and text of our applying laws), pictures of blood-soaked pants and vest emerged from the Facebook and Twitter posts of Counsel Eron Kiiza.
Of course, this insinuates dehumanizing and torturous moments he could have lived in, in the last more than seven days he has survived in whoever hands he has been.
General, the information in the public is that you ordered the arrest of Mr Kakwenza and if this is true, it was the most ill-thought-out action of a General. And if it was advice from any of your advisors, then it was pathetically bad advice yet if it was an act of any of your admirers, then the limit of activities of such admirers needs to be properly demarcated.
General, I am not an admirer of your father’s style of leadership but I will tell you for free that I envy his tolerance level especially towards things that don’t directly affect his grip on power.
He has been the most criticized, abused and insulted president in the history of our country. Cartoonists have drawn his head in the most embarrassing ways and fashions you can think of
Yet even with the capabilities, power and means to even summarily kill, arbitrarily arrest and do anything with them, he has chosen his battles carefully. They are of course some battles he has been decisively insensitive on but not those of mere background grumbles.
Even when I am one of those who think your presidency is not good for this country especially after witnessing your father’s style. I don’t oppose you presenting yourself to the people of Uganda to decide following our laws, norms and aspirations of our people.
I agree insults and abuses are bad but if you stop to stone every barking dog on the journey you seem on, when will you arrive?
Don’t you think gun conversations and settlements of our political disagreements and differences have overstayed in this country and our generation should have the responsibility to end it?
Okay, my brother do you want the public to take this as the signature conduct of your leadership?
Let me tell you, my brother. You are not even obese but just because of your reaction, now it’s in everyone mind that maybe you are. But it goes a little bit beyond that. And it’s an issue of confidence.
Ndugu, this country is bleeding, the people are angry, the inequality is terrible, the injustice is at its apex, the poverty levels are dehumanizing, unfairness and all in one way or another are blamed on the conduct of those who manage the state. Unfortunately, your entire family is entangled in this mess.
Our parents had their unique challenging difficulties having this country to what we have and that could be the reason they (mis) mismanaged this country the way they did. Ours too is different and that is why we could start by setting a new trajectory.
But to achieve this, we need to reconcile and unite the country, through reaching out to, amongst ourselves so that we can find a new consensus.
Lastly, sir, this country is a very rich country with self-correcting mechanisms, we can collectively rebuild this country. We can’t kill all those who don’t agree with our own opinions.
Injustice, unfairness and nepotism won’t heal this country either. There will always be resisting forces as long as injustice exists.
Email. asumanmrjn@gmail.com
Telephone: +256 753 195 384
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