In December 2022, under pressure to bury the most stinging scandal of her career, #FakeDPP#Akokolan#Abodo claims that “investigations were still going on” when the Constitutional Court halted the Basajja case on 8 May 2013, as reported on #ULII. NOT TRUE.ulii.org/ug/judgment/su…
As early as 16 January 2013 @ODPPUGANDA informed the chief magistrate at the anti-corruption court that “INQUIRIES ARE COMPLETE” in the mega-fraud and grand corruption case against the Basajjabalaba brothers.
This was reiterated on 28 January 2013 when Muzamiru was presented.
Consequently the case was fixed for HEARING on 6 March 2013, and on that date the Basajjabalaba brothers were committed for trial in the High Court on 9 May 2013.
On 13 March 2013 @ODPPUGANDA filed an affidavit by the lead investigator opposing the move by the Basajjabalabas to have their bail restored by the High Court after it had been cancelled on being committed for trial. Reason: “INVESTIGATIONS HAVE BEEN CONCLUDED, PROSECUTION READY”
Guess what, this display of chest-thumping EXTREME TRIAL READINESS was directed by our #FakeDPP#Akokolan#Abodo who was the Boss Lady—signing off on every step taken by @ODPPUGANDA at the anti-corruption court. She was the one instructing other state mandarins in the whole saga.
EPILOGUE
The alleged last-minute investigation is a red herring. It has nothing to do with the Basajjabalaba case. On 15 December 2022, we called out #FakeDPP#Akokolan#Abodo for her shameless HYPOCRISY, MENDACITY and DIMWITTERY. Will she do the right thing? @ODPPUGANDA
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CORRUPTION COUNTRY: BASAJJABALABA SAGA IN A NUTSHELL 🧵
Let’s start at the very beginning, with a preface by Capo di tutti capi—“HE”@KagutaMuseveni—in consultation with his consigliere @MoJCA_UG AG Peter Nyombi (RIP).
Mark the date of Capo’s letter: 6 OCTOBER 2011—it’s crucial.
After receiving in FY2010/11 a windfall of sh142b in a dubious compensation scheme arising from @GovUganda’s repossession of 4 markets & Constitution Square (which had been illegally tendered to the Basajjabalabas in the early 2000s), @URAuganda demanded at least sh20b in taxes.
The Basajjabalaba brothers Hassan & Muzamiru then conspired to evade the entire assessed tax by presenting (UTTERING) to @URAuganda & @OAG_Uganda a judicial document purporting that @KagutaMuseveni, @GovUganda, @MoJCA_UG etc had okayed their compensation packages to be tax-free.
In Defense of @dr_oledo and the Kneeling Doctors at Kololo:
These are dark times not only for @TheUMAofficial but all professional associations.
Resentment towards “elites” and “intellectuals” among the peacocks of our Opposition has fueled the rise of doctors like Oledo.
The propaganda of the Opposition has elbowed “elites” and “intellectuals” way back into the mainstream of the @NRMOnline dimwit regime.
To be educated—the aspiration to become part of the professional cadre—has become a tainted political trait.
Even before they knelt at Kololo, doctors, lawyers, historians & “the educated” generally were portrayed by our Opposition peacocks as a detached and indulgent elite.
—for whitewashing the inglorious record of his former mentor, has finally found his way into the ‘League of Legends’.
Last week, he won his first major case.
Bob “Icarus” Kasango (RIP) wanted to find a way to make atonement for his sins.
Condemned to a 16-year sentence in Luzira prison for stealing pensioners’ money—with pleas for bail pending appeal rejected—Kasango turned to altruism, filing a high-impact case for criminal justice.
On behalf of 569 convicts who were condemned to serve sentences longer than 20 years, Kasango filed Constitutional Petition No 24 of 2019, undoubtedly with the assistance of his impressionable mentee @SilverKayondo.
Unfortunately Bob Kasango died before the case could be heard.
This weekend our resident polymath @YusufSerunkuma goes for the jugular. He argues that—
1. OLD COLONIALISM was easily seen by everyone, and “resistance was a natural involuntary response”...NEW COLONIALISM appears “innocent, benign & mutually agreed.”🧵 roape.net/2022/12/02/sur…
2. “This is the best we could get,” the African half-educated elite concludes. “What can we do?” the corrupt comprador asks in resignation.
Entire populations, often knowingly or unknowingly, are turned into accomplices in their own exploitation.
3. The story begins with grooming the contemporary African collaborator long “before they ever become signatories.”
Through scholarships, fellowships or summer schools abroad, Africa’s best & brightest are “quietly cultivated, conscripted & manipulated into comprador positions.”
There’s dangerous delusion among some elites that Uganda is a REPUBLIC, with a people’s gov’t that pretends to adhere to the rule of law & democratic standards. Yet, in truth, it is a POSTCOLONY, where an imposed regime uses rule by law & tyrannical rules to govern the ‘natives’.
The word REPUBLIC comes from Latin ‘res publica’, which literally means ‘public thing’, ‘public matter’, or ‘public affair’ & was used to refer to the state as a whole.
In a REPUBLIC, the country is considered a ‘public matter’, not the private concern/property of the rulers.
In their wisdom, the framers of the 1995 Constitution entrusted or imposed on the CITIZEN, the task of TRANSFORMING Uganda from a POSTCOLONY into a REPUBLIC.
It was hoped that the JUDICIARY would accord the Office of the CITIZEN the necessary support & protection in this regard.