For far too long, when the military and police descended upon unarmed citizens beating, arresting, torturing, and even killing them during the election campaigns your pulpits remained quiet. Your voices, which have historically shaken mountains and guided nations, fell silent while the blood of Ugandan children cried out from the streets.
When young men and women, many of them supporters of Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine), were brutalized for daring to dream of a better Uganda, we expected your moral authority to rise above politics, tribe, and fear. Instead, many of you chose comfort over courage, diplomacy over truth, silence over justice.
But silence, in the face of injustice, is not neutrality. It is complicity.
I stand before you not to accuse, but to awaken.
Uganda is bleeding. Our democracy is wounded. Our people your flock live in fear. And yet, the institutions entrusted with guiding the nation spiritually act as if these crimes against humanity are normal, acceptable, or God-ordained.
They are not.
Your mandate is divine. Your influence is immense. Your responsibility is sacred. When the state becomes abusive, it is the duty of moral leaders to speak boldly, to condemn wrongdoing, to defend the oppressed, and to remind leaders civilian or military that power belongs to the people and must never be used to terrorize them.
I call upon you today:
Reclaim your prophetic voice. Stand with the victims. Demand accountability. Denounce state brutality unequivocally whether the victims are National Unity Platform supporters, journalists, or ordinary citizens going about their lives.
We need you not as spectators, but as defenders of justice.
Not as chaplains of the state, but as shepherds of the people.
Not as guardians of silence, but as champions of truth.
History is watching.
The nation is waiting.
And God whose name we invoke is not mocked by silence in the face of injustice.
Arise. Speak. Act. For Uganda. Isaac Ssemakadde (Legal Rebel). (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
