UNKNOWN GOONS DEMOLISHED A JOURNALIST HOUSE

By our reporter

The demolition of a house belonging to a journalist at Kigezi News Agency Ltd, Wanyana Maureen, which is located in Namayumba sub-county, Wakiso district ignited debate over the fairness and legality of the action.

Whereas the journalist was writing stories that advocated for human rights protection, criticized the evil acts of government against its people, critic argue that the government pursued the action in a highly selective and potentially unjust manner, raising concerns about the rights of an ordinary citizen.

According to our reliable sources, Wanyana Maureen in August last year left the country to Canada to seek asylum due to frequent arrests and merciless torture by government, as she vowed to pursue her cause of prompting the government to release fellow journalists and human rights activists, especially those on the opposition side and especially National Unity Platform (NUP) supporters.

Maureen left her family members in fear and hiding as government security agencies were always threatening to cause trouble to them if they don’t declare her whereabouts.

“Am always getting unknown calls almost everyday threatening to burn our house if I don’t tell them where my wife is, now I cannot pick calls from numbers which are not saved in my phone”. Mr. Daniel Bakalangudde, husband to Wanyana Maureen.

“You will stay homeless if you are joking with this government”, one stranger threatened in a phone call conversation.

The husband told our reporter that sometimes they could not sleep in the house with fears that they can burn the house while sleeping with his children, he sometimes sleeps at a brother’s home and children are now permanently staying at Maureen’s parent’s home.

Daniel told us that on a fateful day when they demolished their house, he was not around, as he had slept at his brother’s house. In the morning a neighbor called telling him about the sad news.

Eyewitnesses report that at around midnight unknown people surrounded the house handling ‘gigantic sticks’ and some had metals then started knocking the house and what surprised people who would come to the rescue was that these unknown men were protected by men in Uganda police uniforms and armed.

In that night after the demolition, people started stealing all property in the house and by the time owner came in the morning, almost everything had been taken. Daniel said that he remained with nothing and now decided to start a new life as he stays with friends and relatives.

What hurts Daniel so much is that the government has separated him from his wife and children, and now he is homeless. But he vows never to support National

Resistance Movement (NRM), the ruling party amidst all the problems it has caused to him.

He tried to report to police but up to now nothing has come out of police investigations and no one is implicated in the crime.