By Mwanje Gideon
To the honorable members of the 11th Parliament, We didn’t ask for much. All we truly wanted, all we pleaded for, was a last defense. We needed you to be the shield for the people of Uganda, the final line between us and the dark of a political will hiding behind sovereignty. Instead, you left us defenseless as you walked gently out of office.
You were meant to be our voice, but you chose to be the wind that blew out our last candle.
I hope that one day, in a quiet moment you didn’t see coming, you feel the bitter weight of regret for standing up and casting that vote. I hope you realize what you’ve done.
I hope the consequences of your choices don’t just stop with you. I hope they echo. I hope they ripple down until your daughters and your grandsons feel the cold reality of the world you built for them.
I hope history is a relentless judge. I hope it carves your names into its pages with a hand that never forgives and a memory that never fades.
I hope sleep becomes a stranger to you. I hope you dream about that moment, and when the images come, I hope you cannot rest. I hope you wake up screaming into the silence of your rooms, haunted by what you signed away.
Power is a season, but shame is a climate; it will follow you long after your titles are stripped away when you come back into the very population you abandoned.
I hope your conscience becomes a living thing that eats at you from the inside, until the air feels thin and you find you can no longer breathe under the weight of it.
I hope that choice of passing the Protection of the sovereignty bill isn’t just a memory. I hope it is a ghost. I hope it follows you, shadows you, and haunts you for every remaining second of your lives.
Lastly, and to all those that have become deaf to hear the cry of the people; the Justice personnel that have lost humanity and administered injustice, those being driven by political will and orders from above!
May your fancy homes feel empty, and your soft beds feel like stone, for there is no rest for those who trade a nation’s soul for a moment’s power. FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY!
The author is a concerned citizen of Uganda. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
