Nambooze should write a book
Allow me to thank The Monitor for giving space to Ms. Nambooze to write about her life in prison.
Through your paper, I wish to implore Ms. Nambooze that, if she has not started already, to please write a book about the whole story. The story should start from where the alleged conflict started,Âthe planting of the âevidenceâ to enable the arrest to look legal, and through the days of her imprisonment, court proceedings and eventual release.ÂHaving read all her writing in the âNamboozeâs Diaryâ in The Monitor, one feels that the rottenness of our political society ought to continuously be exposed to the unsuspecting general public at any opportune time.
From her Diary, you get to appreciate how institutionalised corruption has eaten away the whole of our service providing institutions right from the village leadership up to the highest officeÂin the land; and how this cancer has caused and continues to cause the torture, and eventual death of many innocent Ugandans.ÂWhereas some Ugandans have access to The Monitor and do read about this story, many of us may not be able to keep the papers for our children to read tomorrow.
Your book would allow many Ugandans of today and tomorrow to read about the injustices, the corruption, the manipulation of the security organs and the judiciary in the NRM era,Âsimply toÂsatisfy the wish and interests of some persons who believe that they are more Ugandan than the rest of us.
Frank Mutagubya
Kampala
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
