By Mulengera Reporters
Yusuf Nsibambi, the newest defector to NRM, on Thursday directly addressed the self-exiled Uganda Law Society President Isaac Ssemakadde besides pleading with Uganda Law Society members he leads to become more outspoken and while directing more scrutiny to Bobi Wine’s NUP, which he said was actually worse and more dictatorial than Museveni’s NRM.
Speaking the Radical New Bar’s weekly media interface which Ssemakadde participated in as part of the online audience, Nsibambi asked Ssemakadde for permission so that he directly engages the President on his behalf.
He said he has direct access to the President and other key members of what he kept describing as “the executive” through whom he said Ssemakadde’s pardon and safe return to the country could be procured.
Nsibambi said that it was possible for Ssemakadde to return to Uganda and continue leading his Radical New Bar assertively as always without compromising on or dropping any of his principles demanding for prioritization of rule of law. He said he and other ULS members are now orphaned and there is need for their President Isaac Ssemakadde to safely return home.
Nsibambi added that even the new Chief Justice Flavian Zeijan, who like Ssemakadde is also his former student at Makerere, has a duty to use his new platform to demand for the ULS President’s pardon and return. He said that Ssemakadde “is too good and too intelligent” for his transformative ideas to continue being wasted in indefinite exile.
Renowned for his flattery, Nsibambi also praised Ssemakadde for being one of the very best students he has ever taught at the Makerere Law School. He praised him for going on to become a very good lawyer who “I have always consulted and sought guidance from” on especially matters of Constitutionalism and human rights.
Ssemakadde was unable to immediately respond to Yusuf Nsibambi’s provocative ideas since he wasn’t part of the live Thursday audience at ULS offices at Kololo. It’s very likely he will be vigorously pushing back via his X platform in the coming days and weeks.
Ssemakadde, who previously made it clear that he prefers to live for one day on his feet than for a 100 years on his knees begging for his free speech, has consistently maintained that he is innocent and merely a victim of targeted witch hunt by the mighty in the Ugandan judiciary. He is very unlikely to fall for the carrot and accept the deal-making similar to what his law school teacher Yusuf Nsibambi is proposing. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
