In 2017, Mwenda took up the persecution of Maverick Blutaski by insisting that he was TVO and that he, Mwenda, had evidence!
He used both social media and the formal media as well as t he states security services all backed by a state funded legal demand for Shakas social media accounts.
While Mwenda claimed he had irrefutable evidence of shaka' s culpability he has never preseneed it. Shaka eventually had to flee the country.
Now here we are ... first they came for the Jews!
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The claim that Maverick Blutaski was TVO was first made in 2013 by a one Justus Amanya who claims to be a journalist. He was then posing as an anti government activist.
Justus made a few more blind guesses which suggested he really didnt know who TVO was but Ugandan security services run with that claim and have since harrassed, detained, interrogated Shaka (Maverick Blutaski).
I understand that the claims have now been resuscitated by Andrew Mwenda, a journalist who claims to have proof of his allegation.
Below is a comment from 2015 when it came to light that Shaka was being held incommunicado in various places off and on for most of two years as well as a link to the original Amanya claims.
Amanya later became the NRM government #Steady_Progress propagandist and recently was photographed with president Museveni showing off his masterplan to combat "lies against the NRM on social media"!
Below are some posts and comments as well as a link to the previous 2013 debate on the subject of Amanya's allegations about Maverick that have now been taken up by Mwenda!
PS: I at the time challenged Amanya and he has for the last few years blocked me though he claims not to have done so! But then again he has always been a little economical with the truth!
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The comments by Robert Shaka in 2013 stating that he was being harrassed then by a one Capt Matsiko are very relevant!
They give you some idea just how long the state has been harrassing him culminating in him going onto NTV to protest that harrassment.
Since then, the harrassment was escalated with his illegal incarceration at Kireka before a magistrates court ordered his unconditional release citing habeas corpus.
The same state has in contempt of the court come up with a frivolous charge they will be hard pressed to prove if they havent been able to prove it after two eyars of harrassment!
In any case they are going to have to prove that whatever concessions they get from him have not been obtained through duress!
At the end of the day, this is not about TVO, Justus Amanya or anyone else.
This is about the misuse of power by the state to stifle dissent and freedom of expression. this is the last barrier before they get to you in their attempt to construct a police state!
The idea that for two years that they have harrassed him they have failed to find any evidence with which to charge him yet they are still trying desperately to hold onto him even if it means breaking and manipulating the law that his mother fought to uphold ....that should make her turn in her grave!
The charge that they came up with is itself ridiculous. SHakak is an IT person. He has worked with computers for all of the time I have known him online half of it in support of Museveni's government! Should Ugandans now require a permit to use a computer? Come to think about it these idiots may actually think that thats a good idea!
The other one of invading the privacy of his excellency is even more ridiculous as the presidency and his health are actually the voting publics business! Unless they can prove that he committed a felony by obtaining and releasing his medical records, they are talking through their backsides!
Museveni himself as I have discussed elsewhere and will post evidence too, opened that pandora's box in 2001 when he argued that the voting public had the right to know a presidential candidates health status. While as president he was not compelled under the law to accept summons and appear in court to testify and be cross examined, he presented to court and testified that he released Besigye's purported HIV status during campaigns because it was relevant. he claimed that Besigye had a "community diagnosis" of HIV and presented an expert witness a one prof Rwomushana to back him up! It is rich for him to turn around now and claim a right to privacy.
But if he does really crave privacy he knows what to do. Step down from the presidency. He would then be a private citizen and no one will be interested in his health status.
A presidents status is grounds for impeachement on grounds of incapacity. A couple of years ago, Museveni treated us to a video that is still doing the cyber rounds suggesting that his health maybe dodgy! In another country, that video would have prompted demands for his health records!
Today its Shaka. Tomorrow it will be you! Shaka is only a trial run!
Always remember reverend Nienmoller!
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
At the end of the day, its always good to remember the French philosopher Voltaires words;
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
June 12, 2015 at 8:53pm ·
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