09/12/2025
Fellow Ugandans,
What happened during the Nakawa campaigns is not an isolated tremor.It is a warning rumble beneath the foundation of our democracy, the repeated, reckless use of force by security operatives during elections.
But let me speak plainly to a group that believes itself immune:
the elite, the wealthy, the connected, the educated, and the comfortably indifferent.
🥁You, whose children study in foreign capitals.
🥁You, who boast of “contacts” that can resolve any inconvenience.
🥁You, who assume your money can buy you refuge from national turbulence.
🥁You, who whisper in private but remain mute in public.
I say to you without fear or favour:
The storm that is allowed to grow will not consult your bank balance before it arrives.The fire you ignore on the ground floor will climb the stairs. And the chaos you tolerate today will one day knock on your own gates, uninvited and unrestrained.
History is merciless in this regard.
Ask the elites of Liberia, the upper class of Sudan, the intellectuals of Ethiopia, the “untouchable” professionals of Tunisia. They, too, believed that passports, power, and privilege could insulate them from the consequences of national rot.
They learned painfully that when a nation begins to unravel, neither affluence nor influence is an evacuation plan.
Let this truth settle deeply:
🥁Your child abroad cannot vote for your safety.
🥁Your connections cannot negotiate with a broken system.
🥁Your silence will not shield you when the institutions you ignored finally collapse under the weight of unchallenged injustice.
To the men and women in uniform,
remember this too: The orders of today will not shelter you from the judgment of tomorrow. Stand with the Constitution, not personalities, with the people, not the moment.
Uganda still has a window, narrow yet present, to reclaim dignity, accountability, and democratic sanity. But that window is closing with every baton raised unnecessarily, with every voice silenced, with every
