Rescue us Mr President
I read with great admiration a report, which appeared in The Monitor of January 13.In the article, President Yoweri Museveni was reported to have boasted of having helped the people of Nyabushosi to change their lifestyle to the extent that they are now rich and developed.How I wish such a president could reign forever.However, I humbly request the president to help me out of my present predicament.
My father, Mr Richard Okiror (RIP) who was the sub-county chief of Kuju in the present day Katakwi district, died in 1988 while helping the then National Resistance Army (NRA) to rescue ministers Aporu Okol (RIP), Robert Ekinu (RIP) and Stanislus Okurut who had been abducted by rebels.After the rescue, my father was arrested and executed by the rebels.
All our cows and other property was taken away by the rebels and the entire home was vandalised. My current MP Mr Ben Etonu, Maj.Gen. Jeje Odongo, Mr Onapito Ekomoloit and Soroti RDC Mr Musa Ecweru among many others, can testify to this.
Since 1996 I have tried to seek compensation but to no avail. We as a family have a lot of land and request you to empower us to exploit it adequately. By doing this, you will have wiped out tears on or cheeks.
Enos Ejoku Okiror,
Katakwi.
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
