Free Uganda Statement on the continued illegal and unconstitutional detention of General David Sejusa at Luzira prison.

Free Uganda Statement on the continued illegal and unconstitutional detention of General David Sejusa at Luzira prison- by
Dr. Vincent Magombe,

 On Friday, 18th March 2016, Museveni's Kangaroo Court - the so-called General Court Martial in Makindye finally bowed down to the order given by the High Court of Uganda to halt the unlawful trial of General Sejusa in the military court.

But, in a nakedly unlawful move, the military court’s chairman, Major General Karuhanga, rejected the application by General Sejusa’s legal team to release their client unconditionally, and instead ruled that Sejusa be returned to Luzira prison until he is granted bail by the High Court’s Criminal Division.

Really? Why would the military court drop the case and still rule to keep General Sejusa in prison? On what legal grounds can someone be kept inside prison for a non-existent case?

Free Uganda squarely and unreservedly condemns the March 18th decision by the General Court Marshal to keep General David Sejusa in Luzira Prison, even after they stopped hearing his case on the orders of the High Court of Uganda.

Free Uganda is very much aware that General David Sejusa is being illegally and unjustly confined to Luzira prison on the express orders of Mr. Yoweri Museveni.

This is nothing, but the usual evil-minded political game plays and the characteristic constitutional illegalities, which Ugandans have become so accustomed to throughout 30-year of lawlessness that only served to satisfy the egotistical interests of this one man Museveni.

These are the same evil-minded political game plays that are being actualized in relation to Dr. Kizza Besigye, the FDC leader, who is being illegally kept under house arrest at his Kasangati home, without any due judicial process.

These are the same constitutional illegalities which are being deployed by Museveni to kidnap and unlawfully detain thousands upon thousands of innocent pro-democracy activists in multitudinous jails and so-called ‘Safe Houses’ across Uganda.

It is against this background that Free Uganda, the pro-democracy and freedom struggle platform, seeks to express its uttermost revulsion and loathing at Museveni’s myopic and wholly reprehensible anti-people acts, designed for no other purpose, but the entrenchment of one man’s despotic rule over an unwilling citizenry.

Free Uganda warns Mr. Museveni that his fragrant abuse of the constitutional rights of Ugandan citizens will, without doubt, have serious consequences, as the People of Uganda become more and more frustrated and angry with his unwanted and acutely dangerously encumbrances.

There are limits on how far a small clique of self-imposed rulers of a nation, who have illegitimately usurped power after a nakedly rigged election, can be allowed to continue violating the rights of Ugandan citizens in ways that are not only brazen and flagrant, but grossly inhumane and imbued with a barbarism beyond description.

Museveni is clearly playing with fire, and he will get it in not so long a time to come.

The Struggle Continues.

[By Dr. Vincent Magombe, Secretary Free Uganda Leadership Committee and Press Secretary FU - 19 March 2016]