By Mulengera Reporters
At a Thursday news conference in Kampala, the PLU National Chairman’s Executive Assistant David Kabanda clarified that he greatly respects the Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga and still considers him to be his role model when it comes to public leadership though that doesn’t mean he can’t disagree with the Buganda Kingdom Prime Minister’s views on certain things.
Saying he was speaking for and on behalf of Gen MK, Kabanda registered PLU’s rejection of Mayiga’s recent utterance to the effect that in a democratic society, which Uganda takes itself to be, its bad manners and imprudent practice for anyone to be prosecuted and even locked up over the so-called speech-related offences.
The PLU leadership understood the Katikkiro to have implied that even if one engages in hate speech similar to what instigated the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the recent xenophobic violence in South Africa, such offenders should be left to go scot free simply because of their freedom of speech-related rights provided for under Article 29 of Uganda’s Constitution.
Without being disrespectful of the Buganda Katikkiro, Kabanda said that PLU considers this position repugnant and unacceptable and demanded that the Katikkiro reviews and reconsiders his stand view point because he personally has been a victim of such hate speech propagated by NUP party’s so-called foot soldiers especially those based in the diaspora. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
