Renowned CNN journalist Larry Madowo has been sighted in Uganda. Madowo is widely known for his groundbreaking documentary exposing the genocide in Tanzania, where innocent young people were reportedly killed by security forces and buried in mass graves. His documentary, aired on CNN, revealed the atrocities committed under dictator Hassan Suluhu’s regime, drawing global outrage and unsettling other authoritarian leaders including barberian Yoweri Museveni, who is accused of planning similar actions against Ugandan youth who resist electoral manipulation.
It is alleged that Museveni deployed Ugandan soldiers to Tanzania, disguising them in Tanzanian military uniforms to carry out killings that were blamed on Tanzanian authorities. As Uganda heads to the polls in January, incidents of violence are already escalating. Supporters of opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) are reportedly being targeted and killed by the military under the command of Museveni’s son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
Muhoozi, who lacks formal military training and was merely smuggled into the UPDF and his father stupidly elevated him to the rank of General, has been accused of gross incompetence. In reasonable countries like South Africa, Kenya, or Ghana, such a figure would not even qualify to command a dog section.
Recently, he displayed extreme unprofessionalism when he ordered the abduction of Eddy Mutwe, Bobi Wine’s private security aide, who was then held incommunicado. While Mutwe’s family searched for him, Muhoozi shockingly boasted on his X account that he was teaching Mutwe to speak Runyankole in his basement. Days later, Mutwe was produced in court unable to walk, and he narrated how he had been tortured under Muhoozi’s direct command. Many other young supporters of Kyagulanyi remain detained in military facilities under similar conditions.
Now that Larry Madowo has entered Uganda, despite Museveni having earlier warned him not to set foot in the country concerns are rising. It should be remembered that Kenyan human rights activists who came to Uganda to show solidarity with Kyagulanyi were abducted and held incommunicado for 38 days. Upon their release, Museveni publicly bragged that he had kept them “in his fridge.”
With Madowo now in Uganda, uncertainty looms over what may happen next. The fear is that he may face the same ordeal as the Kenyan activists. As the media fraternity, we keep him in our prayers and hope for his safety.
