By Mulengera Reporters
Right wing cable news channel, Fox News, has reported that notorious drug trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who Donald Trump badly wants out of the United States to avoid ‘contaminating’ blood of the American people, has successfully resisted the idea of being relocated to Uganda.
The El Salvador national has, through his lawyers, filed an application in the US Courts objecting to the idea of being deported to Uganda.
The reasons given include Uganda being unsafe for a person like Garcia himself because it’s a poorly-governed country where torture and other forms of human rights violations are rampant and always go unpunished.
That Uganda is one country where political and military leaders violate ordinary people’s rights without perpetrators of such torture ever getting reprimanded or sanctioned through the legal system.
Garcia, whose case has over months generated plenty of divisive debate in the US media and legal circles, will now be relocated to Swaziland (aka Eswatini) since the US authorities have recognized his concerns elaborating why he doesn’t feel comfortable being relocated to Uganda.
Garcia’s lawyers have referenced on the US government’s own repeated reports clearly depicting Uganda as one country where human rights violations are rampant to the extent that several military and political officials serving the Kampala regime have since been sanctioned never to travel to the US nor run any business there.
A report in the New York Times, an influential US newspaper, shows that the government of Swaziland (aka Eswatini) has so far received $500m (roughly Shs1.8trn in Ugandan money) to keep receiving deported asylum seekers who the Trump administration is determined to keep deporting to 3rd countries as opposed to sending them back to their country of origin on grounds they would be unsafe.
The decision by deportees like Garcia to portray Uganda as a torture-stricken country and therefore unsafe diminishes the government of Gen YK Museveni ability to be accepted as part of the civilized world. It also makes the Museveni regime to miss an opportunity to appease the very unpredictable Trump Administration while equally improving its bilateral diplomatic relationship with Washington.
The regime in Kampala also risks missing out on the US trillions, should the deportation deal end up flopping because of general hostility to Uganda because of its hard-to-defend human rights record. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
