By Ibrahim Semujju Nganda Kira municipality MP and spokesperson of the People’s Front for Freedom (PFF), has challenged Uganda’s clergy to use the platform of this year’s Martyrs Day celebrations in Namugongo to denounce ongoing human rights violations, including abductions and torture of political dissenters.
Speaking at a press conference held Monday at the PFF offices on Katonga Road, Ssemujju criticized the religious establishments for silence” in the face of atrocities committed under the current regime.
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The Kira municipality legislator noted that “The same clergy cannot be dining with Museveni and inviting him even to speak, They need to be speaking against these crimes committed more than 140 years ago and then condition it on Museven that he must not repeat or any other leader.”
Namugongo annually attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims who gather to honor Ugandan Christian converts executed between 1885 and 1887 under the orders of Kabaka Mwanga II. Ssemujju drew parallels between those historical killings and what he described as modern-day oppression by the current government, urging the clergy to use the occasion as a call to moral and political accountability.
Semujju said “If they don’t speak and speak very strongly against these things, they should prepare other shrines we will be visiting when Museveni has gone because I know under Mwanga they could never have staged these events. He added, “Certainly there will be events after Museveni to remember people he has killed and those he has tortured.”
Ssemujju argued that the silence of the Church in the face of the continued illegal detention of political prisoners and abductions of opposition supporters undermines the very values Martyrs Day seeks to celebrate courage, faith, and resistance to tyranny.
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Additionally, he called on all pilgrims in Namugongo, regardless of political or religious affiliation, to speak out against injustice and demand the release of all political detainees.
“the pilgrims who are in Namgongo, they all need to speak with one voice against these crimes,” he said.
Martyrs Day will be officially commemorated on June 3, with several senior government officials and religious leaders expected to attend the celebrations in Namugongo.
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