Uganda’s political situation is rapidly deteriorating under Yoseri Kagutema Tibuhaburwa aka Museveni’s increasingly paranoid and oppressive regime. In a disturbing turn of events, Museveni has begun targeting even those who have long served as instruments of his brutal repression, particularly agents involved in the persecution of opposition supporters.
The latest victim is D/ASP Charles Twiine, a known torturer formerly attached to SIU Kireka, CMI Mbuya, and other notorious detention centres. Twiine now finds himself on the receiving end of the same inhumane treatment he once inflicted on innocent Ugandans.
Reports indicate that the detective is currently being held and tortured in one of Museveni’s illegal detention facilities after being abducted by the Special Forces Command (SFC), Museveni’s personal militia.
Until his abduction, Detective Twiine was serving as a parliamentary investigator. On Tuesday night, he was reportedly summoned to meet IGP Abas Byakagaba and his deputy, James Ochaya. Shockingly, he was then handed over to SFC operatives, who violently whisked him away. His current whereabouts remain unknown, and his family is in deep distress.
Ironically, Twiine had long pledged unwavering loyalty to the power-hungry criminal – Tibuhaburwa Kagutema aka Museveni, defending and justifying the regime’s rampant extrajudicial killings and widespread human rights abuses.
In the end, however, his loyalty earned him nothing but betrayal and tears. This is a strong lesson to all the other scarecrow puppets serving the bloodthirsty old senseless dude – M7.
Twiine’s abduction is a blunt example of Museveni’s “use-and-dump” systematic approach, where even the most loyal enforcers are discarded once they outlive their usefulness. This incident once again serves as a grave warning to others in the security apparatus who continue to brutalise their fellow citizens in the name of protecting an indifferent regime that ultimately spares no one.
Let the abduction of Detective Twiine be a wake-up call to our brothers and sisters within Museveni’s security forces: you are not immune. Rather than enabling repression, it is time to stand with the growing number of Ugandans calling for an end to this decades-long dictatorship.
Over the past four decades, Power-hungry Museveni remains the greatest curse to have befallen Uganda, and only unity and collective action can bring about the democratic change the nation so desperately needs.