General Sejusa is a Prisoner of Conscious, and his spirit of Defiance
will fuel the Struggle for the Liberation of Uganda.
That the General Court Martial
could so blatantly skew the law in order to satisfy the politically motivated
and self-fulfilling designs of one man is not only utterly illegal to the core.
Free Uganda condemns, in the
strongest terms possible, the unjust way in which General Sejusa is being
treated by the General Court Martial, which, effectively, is a Museveni-run
Kangaroo Court.
From the very onset, General
Sejusa had prognosed that he was not going to be given bail by the General
Court Martial, given the over-arching influence exercised by the Ugandan
dictator Yoweri Museveni on the decisions made in this court.
If Museveni wants you to be
free, you go free.
If he wishes you to stay in
his dungeons, so it will be.
Free Uganda is convinced
beyond doubt that General Sejusa is a Prisoner of Conscious.The Museveni regime
is persecuting General Sejusa because of his pronouncements against the gross
violations of the Constitutional rights of Ugandan citizens.
General Sejusa is also being
punished for his publicly-declared support for the People's Struggle for
Political Democratization of Uganda.
As a patriotic citizen,
General Sejusa has every right to express himself on any political issue of
concern to Ugandan people.
Free Uganda deplores and
condemns the erroneous view that Sejusa cannot engage in politics or air
critical views about the sad state of affairs in Uganda today.
It is not General Sejusa who
is responsible for the illegalities surrounding his discharge from the
military.On his part, he applied for retirement and fulfilled all the
constitutional provisions underpinning the Army laws and regulations.
It is incredulous that
Museveni, in what is clearly a politically motivated decision, has ordered Gen.
KatumbaWamala, the Chief of Defense Forces(CDF) not to sign Gen Sejusa’s
retirement papers, after he, Museveni,personally assured Sejusa that he was going to be retired from the army.
Free Uganda agrees with General Sejusa's legal team, in their assertion
that General Sejusa has the right to act and live his life as a 'retired'
military officer.
It is Museveni and some of his colluding military officials, and not
General Sejusa, who have errored in Law. It is Museveni who has defiled the
tenants of natural justice and the established constitutional provisions and
order.
It is the great belief of General Sejusa that
the High Court of Uganda which is considering a case brought by his lawyers,
will soon rule in his favour. This, according to Sejusa’s legal team, will
humiliate and shamw the General Court Martial, which has acted and continues to
act as Museveni's personal mouthpiece, rather than an institution meant to dispense
justice to the people of Uganda.
This, therefore, is the
unequivocal demand by Free Uganda to Mr. Museveni:
You must release General
Sejusa unconditionally and without delay;
You must release the many
youths, who were arrested for protesting the continued detention of General Sejusa;
You must release all political
prisoners, who are rotting in your dungeons;
You must release the young
military men, who are in incarceration on tramped up charges that bear no
truths or facts.
Mr Museveni, you stand to
surfer the wrath of the People of Uganda, for all these injustices committed so
wantonly against innocent citizens.
Free Uganda is seriously
considering a number of options,going forward.
It is not our intention at
this time to publicize our intended course of action, but let it be known that
all options are on the table.
And also, may it be known by
Museveni that this action pledge by Free Uganda is not in isolation, nor is it exclusively
limited to the emancipationfrom captivity of General David Sejusa, the Free
Uganda Chairman.
The Free Uganda pledge is in
unison with the wider aspirations of all the People of Uganda to free
themselves from decades-long servitude and repression.
Just as General Sejusa needs
his freedom, the entire population of Uganda seeks to be free to live a new
life of freedom, peace and social justice - things that can't happen in the
absence of a democratic dispensation and the attendant good governance by those
tasked to run the nation.
By the look of it, the
singular most important obstacle to that New Uganda is this one man called
Yoweri Museveni.
It is a matter of priority for
the Ugandan People to address this Museveni question sooner, rather than later.
God Bless the People’s journey
to the Promised Land.
[Issued, on behalf of Free Uganda, by Dr. Vincent Magombe, Secretary Free Uganda Leadership Committee and Press Secretary FU - 09/02/2016]
