Security operatives on Wednesday raided the home of veteran activist and former Ethics and Integrity Minister Miria Matembe in Luzira, sparking concern among family members over her whereabouts.
According to her husband, Nehemiah Matembe, the operatives searched the residence, including the couple’s bedroom, without identifying themselves or explaining the purpose of their visit before leaving empty-handed.
Nehemiah said he believes the team intended to abduct Matembe, who was away from home at the time of the operation. Family members said the group comprised both uniformed military personnel and plain-clothed operatives.
Witnesses said two women and one man dressed in civilian attire entered the compound while two armed soldiers remained stationed outside the gate. The team reportedly arrived in what residents described as a Toyota vehicle commonly referred to as a “drone.”
Nehemiah said the operatives forced their way into the residence and conducted a thorough search without speaking to him or presenting any documentation.
“Two individuals accessed the premises through the kitchen, while another entered through the main door and remained on the balcony facing outward. They found me in the sitting room. I asked who they were and what they wanted, but they ignored me, searched the bedroom and bathroom, then returned. I continued asking questions, but they never responded,” he said.
He added that the operatives searched every room in the house while armed and masked colleagues stood guard outside the compound. About 30 minutes later, they left without taking anything or offering an explanation for the raid.
Nehemiah said the incident left him shaken, noting that he is a retired civil servant with no criminal record or reason to warrant such an operation. He said his wife had left for the gym shortly before the raid and had since become unreachable, with her phones switched off.
Matembe has publicly criticised the Chief of Defence Forces, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, accusing him of misusing the military in political disputes and undermining state institutions. She has urged Ugandans to resist what she describes as the erosion of institutions, including Parliament and the judiciary.
In a recent interview, Matembe said Muhoozi should be more grateful and respectful towards Ugandan who have financed his upbringing, education and lifestyle since his father, Yoweri Museveni, came to power in 1986 when he was just 7 years.
She also criticised the First Family for what she described as losing all shame and failing to rein in Muhoozi’s actions, arguing that he is increasingly projecting himself as a “new Amin” who takes pride in the killing and abduction of fellow citizens.
Nehemiah questioned why security personnel would target what he described as a peaceful and law-abiding family.
Matembe is a veteran politician, women’s rights advocate and co-founder of the Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention. A former Ethics and Integrity Minister and one of the architects of Uganda’s 1995 Constitution, she has in recent years emerged as one of the government’s most outspoken critics.
She has consistently condemned alleged human rights abuses, enforced disappearances and what she describes as state-sponsored targeting of opposition politicians and activists.
Matembe’s relationship with the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) soured in 2003 after she opposed the removal of presidential term limits.
In other words, like bewitched: Gen MK, the son our 86-years-old PROBLEM OF AFRICA, Gen Tibuhaburwa, is on criminal trespassing rampage at innocent Ugandans homes.
But Ugandans must be reminded that: since these thugs are not identifying themselves as legally mandated; by any means in self-defence, Ugandans have the right to defend themselves from criminal trespassers (in self-defence trespassers will be killed)!
Kepis!
In other words, anarchy shall be met with anarchy. They are using the guns, uniform, and Drones, purchased from our hard-earned sweat and blood tax money (Classified Budget) to terrorise us, is unacceptable!
NYET!
Maybe it is once again high time Ugandans stopped sitting on their hands, while thugs led by Gen MK urinate on them as everybody else helplessly looks on.
If in broad-day-light, they can come for Senior Citizens like the harmless Matembe’s Family, who are only armed with honesty; everyone is next victim and there will be no one left to speak up!
Here comes King Ahab vs Elijah,1King 18:18. Hon.Matembe’s prayers are having negative impact on the first family… Let’s call it whatever thou “the emperor is undressed”. I think Muhoozi should request funds to build more prisons. Thou let him not forget that even Gaddafi ended up in one of his own built prison.
Jamo, Gaddafi didn’t have the privilege of ending up in his own-built prison.
But he ended up in one of Benghazi’s sewer drainage culvert, where he was dragged out by a 19-year teenager, who got hold of his (Gaddafi’s) golden pistol (handgun) and shot the old man between the eyes, while the old man was begging for his life; and asking the young man what he wanted.
But the young man told Muzee that he wanted Gaddafi’s life not the stolen wealth from the Libyan people.
What about Saddam Hussein? The man was dragged out of a similar rat manhole, where he was secretly being fed by charitable Christians. When the American Marines got to him, they treated him like a human being: gave him a warm bath, a haircut, shaved his face, checked his dental state, and fed him with a juicy beef cheese burger and Coke.
But it was the Iraqi who prosecuted and hanged him side by side with his two sons, which marked the end of terror and murder of the Iraqi people by a family rule!
In other words, does it ever cross our 86-years-old PROBLEM OF AFRICA, Gen Tibuhaburwa and his son Gen MK that they could easily share the fate of Saddam or Gaddafi?
E.g., does it ever cross Gen MK that just like Gaddafi’s son, Islam Gaddafi was mowed down as he came out his house to check what was the matter with power and CCTV camera?
In other words, when the jealous God thinks some people are trying to become him, with the power of life and death over countrymen, women and children; he switches them off.