Eddie Mutwe’s photo showed signs of torture and atrocities committed against him with impunity, and it is on this note that we implore religious leaders and human rights activists to step in”, Ssenyonyi said.
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The Leader of Opposition (LOP) in Parliament, Joel Ssennyonyi who is also the MP for Nakawa West has called on Ugandans not to leave leaders fight the battle of pushing for an end to brutality meted out to innocent people single handedly, but to devise ways of applying active involvement to have a role to play.
Ssenyonyi was addressing a congregation that gathered at St. Luke’s Church of Uganda Nabweru at a thanksgiving service organised by former radio and TV news anchor, Zambaali Blasio Mukasa to thank the Lord for his 17-year service in the media, and to introduce his new political agenda, where he intends to contest for the Nansana Municipality parliamentary slot on a National Unity Platform (NUP) ticket.
He was sad to note that although the Supreme Court directed that political detainees and other civilians formerly under trial by the defunct military court be transferred to civilian courts, the government has turned a deaf ear and stubbornly continued to detain these people.
“It is unfortunate that our colleague Eddie Ssebuufu, popularly known as Eddie Mutwe is being detained in a basement belonging to the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) according to his own confession on a social media handle.
Eddie Mutwe’s photo showed signs of torture and atrocities committed against him with impunity, and it is on this note that we implore religious leaders and human rights activists to step in”, Ssenyonyi said.
The LOP expressed deep concern that while the CDF possibly basing on his relationship with the head of state and his top office in the UPDF, threatens to kill people opposed to his school of thought without as much as a finger being pointed at him; likewise, he said, the human rights body directed the defence ministry to release Eddie Mutwe but that to date, nothing to that effect has been done.
He said that as directed by religious leaders, faithfuls go to mosques and churches to repent of their sins, adding that the law itself does not prescribe abductions as a means of settling odds, and has avenues to follow to correct the wayward.
The function organiser Zambaali Blasio Mukasa laid bare his plans to contest for the Nansana Municipality seat and appealed to Ugandans to use their democratic right to change leadership.
“For us in NUP insist that we need the protest vote as a means of peacefully changing leadership of the country from bad hands,” he said.
Zambaali said his agenda tallies with the NUP programmes, and that it is the reason he decided to stand under the party to remove bad leadership and replace it with good leadership.
Officiating at the service, retired Bishop of Namirembe Diocese, Rt. Rev. Wilberforce Kityo Luwalira appealed to national leaders to conduct self-censorship with regard to the mistreatment against the media, and stop attempts tantamount to gagging the press.
“We should all embrace the responsibility to pray for journalists for what they are going through in the discharge of their duties; we all have our own challenges but we should add on our problems the duty to pray for these people as they struggle to keep the world informed,” Bp. Luwalira said.
He thanked journalists for the tireless efforts to shape the world through making people discard tendencies likely to portray them as operating extra judicially or against the law of nature.
