3/8/2025
President Yoweri Museveni has defended Stephen Nuwagaba, a young man he says sought his protection after suffering torture and serious injuries allegedly inflicted by members of Uganda’s security agencies.
President Yoweri Museveni has defended Stephen Nuwagaba, a young man he says sought his protection after suffering torture and serious injuries allegedly inflicted by members of Uganda’s security agencies.
In a lengthy statement, Museveni accused veteran journalist Andrew Mwenda of attempting to divert public attention from corruption, torture and criminality within state institutions.
He said Mwenda had wrongly portrayed Nuwagaba as a national security threat despite the young man being a victim who remained under his care and had received treatment in Uganda and abroad.
This statement was posted by President Museveni, I want to reproduce in my story as it is, but give it a lede of like 2 paragraphs that focuses on Mwenda and Nuwagaba, suggest good headlines in title case:
The People of Uganda, especially the Bazzukulu. Kopango. Iriyo maber. Apoyo kwir maber recently.
Having thanked Ugandans for voting very well in the recent LC-1 elections, we shall get time to say more about this issue later.
However, for today, I want to inform the Ugandans that the great journalist Andrew Mwenda is back with his schemes.
Having failed to destroy our promising pharmaceutical industry by calling our innovators Magoola and Senfuka con-men, and declaring me senile, he has now discovered a new national emergency in Uganda. This is the young man known as Nuwagaba Stephen.
This young man has laid “siege” on State House and the Security Agencies. There is big danger to the country. Since I am not dead, and I am still able to use my pen to defend the Ugandan and African Revolutions, I will tell you about Nuwagaba.
Nuwagaba is a young man in his mid-twenties who came to me as a fugitive, a victim of torture and maiming, whom some elements in the Security Services were trying to silence, including threatening with death.
He has actually been a patient on account of torture and maiming (okumuzya), and trauma because of the torture, for many of the months he has been under my care! I had to send him to the hospitals in Uganda and abroad to save his life. He seems to have improved, but some of the maiming is still there.
