For over 4 decades, courts that should protect citizens slowly subordinated to guns, ranks, and fear.
Innocent civilians dragged before military courts. Judges intimidated. Due process reduced to a procedural inconvenience whenever power felt threatened.
In Fact octogenarian Dictator Museveni’s Uganda, justice stopped being blind and started saluting.
This wasn’t accidental. It was strategic.
A militarized justice system is perfect for a ruler who fears scrutiny more than rebellion.
When the law becomes an extension of the barracks, dissent is treated as treason and criticism as an enemy operation.
But history is cruel to architects of repression.
Systems built to serve one man never survive him. The same records, orders, rulings, and precedents used to silence opponents become evidence.
The same legal distortions that normalized abuse become exhibits. The same judiciary stripped of independence becomes the very proof of how far the state was dragged away from justice.
Museveni ruled through force, but force does not write the final judgment. Accountability does. History does. Law does eventually, relentlessly.
You can militarize courts.
You can intimidate judges.
You can bend justice for decades.
But you can’t escape it forever. Power-hungry Museveni must go and the time is now!