{UAH} FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHT'S REBUTTAL FROM VINCENT NUWAGABA

Dear Comrades,

You may all have seen what the management of FHRI posts of the
official facebook page of the organisation about me. It is strange,
weird and unprecedented. Livingstone Sewanyana, who for ages has been
claiming to be a human rights defender to the extent of saying he is
the only person passionate about human rights now walks naked but he
does not realise it.

We must move very fast to liberate FHRI. While Mr Sewanyana started
FHRI, it is a membership organisation. I am convinced that Mr
Sewanyana must be chased from the organisation if we genuinely embrace
the mission, vision and objectives for which the organisation stands.
In any case, the original constitution allowed him as the executive
director to serve a term of three years renewable only once and he has
been at the helm for a solid 22 years now. The difference between
Sewanyana and Museveni is now the similarity.

Museveni, I am convinced is not as vicious and destructive as
Sewanyana. Kindly, join me in isolating Livingstone Sewanyana from
civil society work, human rights work and we place him where he
belongs.

Below is the most recent statement by FHRI about me:

28th November 2013
FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE STATEMENT CONCERNING ONE
VINCENT VESSY NUWAGABA

The Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), wishes to inform
the general public, partners, and the membership that a one Vincent
Vessy Nuwagaba, who was associated with FHRI as a member has of recent
been involved in criminal acts of violence, abuse, including
misinformation that we take exception of.
He has on a number of occasions been arrested and prosecuted. In one
incident in 2010, he was convicted and jailed at Luzira Prison for a
period of 10 months on a charge of assault and defamation. In 2012, he
assaulted a police officer at the Uganda Human Rights Commission
(UHRC) and was subsequently charged at Buganda Road Magistrate's
court, while on two other occasions, he assaulted officials at
Makerere University and subsequently abused the magistrate hearing the
matter.

Of recent, he has been engaged in criminal acts of violence against
the staff at the FHRI. On 18th October 2013, he attempted to rape a
female member of staff and on 1st November 2013, he attacked and
severally bit a male member of staff. He was arrested and detained at
Kabalagala Police station and subsequently charged at Makindye Chief
Magistrate's Court on the 8th of November, 2013. He was remanded to
Luzira Prison, and released on bail on the 12th of November, 2013.
In another incident he caused grievous bodily harm on our security
staff. He is due to appear in court on 5th December 2013 to answer
charges ranging from attempted rape, criminal trespass and causing
bodily harm.
He is currently involved in character assassination and making
defamatory statements against the person of the Executive Director,
FHRI, Mr. Livingstone Sewanyana, because he has taken a strong stand
against his unbecoming conduct. He purports to have been a staff
member of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative which is false.
The truth is that being a member of FHRI, he was always allowed to use
our Resource Centre, and taking advantage of that he would make false
representations.
The public is warned that this person has on many occasions used
abusive language, made defamatory statements against prominent members
of the academia, civil society, media, judiciary, and government. He
uses this strategy of character assassination and, blackmail to extort
money from unsuspecting and innocent people. He pretends sometimes to
be mentally sick well knowing the consequences of his actions. FHRI
cannot condone this unbecoming behavior, and to this end, we invite
you to join us in exposing and isolating this individual through all
lawful means.
We therefore advise members of the public to treat his
utterances/allegations with the contempt they deserve and to be aware
of his acts of violence, blackmail and extortion which could endanger
any one he targets.

MANAGEMENT
Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI)

 Below is my response

Vincent Vessy Nuwagaba shared Foundation For Human Rights Initiative
(FHRI)'s photo.
For more than a month now, the Foundation For Human Rights Initiative
under the mismanagement of a one Livingstone Sewanyana has kept
defamatory statements on its facebook page traducing the good name
that I have striven to defend for more than 25 years in school.

I beg to put the record very straight.
1. I have never been involved in any criminal acts because I was
properly brought up. I grew up in a very good family under the good
care of the my late grandma Susanna Kirakwende who taught me the
values of honesty, moral uprightness, hard work, teamwork, tolerance
and above all the love and fear of God. My grandma who was a legionary
of Mary despised pretence, dishonesty and hypocricy. Because of that,
I also despise these vices. Unfortunately, to people like Livingstone
Sewanyana, dishonesty, pretence, hypocricy and treachery are cherished
values.

2. It is a principle in law that he who alleges proves. FHRI alleges
that I have been involved in criminal acts of violence, abuse,
including misinformation that the management (or is it mismanagement)
takes exception of. Let them give the details of the criminal acts I
have been involved in. Let them urge the criminal justice system to
have me prosecuted. I do not believe in impunity and I am sure if
foundation for human rights initiative is a human rights organisation
worth the name, it should abhor impunity. I am not above the law in
any case I am not a president that I cannot be prosecuted when I am
still in service.

3. Let FHRI enumerate the number of times I have been arrested and
prosecuted and help the public know what the court verdicts have been
in all the incidences I have been prosecuted. In other words, how many
times have I been convicted and how many times have I been acquitted.
Please, tell the public, whether I have been bribing the criminal
justice institutions in cases where I have been acquitted.

4. I have no criminal record. For those of you who have always known
Livingstone Sewanyana, George Musiisi, Doreen Namyalo and other people
at FHRI to be lawyers, I must now disappoint you. These people were
submarine law students. They are totally ignorant of the law.
Otherwise, how would they say a person who was convicted by a
paralegal (Grade II Magistrate James Wambaya after being prevailed
upon by the corrupt regime) be acquitted of all the criminal charges,
have sentences set aside and conviction quashed by a higher court has
criminal records. Nelson Mandela was in prison for 27 years, I see
FHRI heaping praises on him not calling him a criminal. The truth of
the matter is that I deserve an award for accepting imprisonment in
defence of social justice. The reason as to why I was jailed is
because I opposed the increment of tuition fees at Makerere University
by 126 percent in 2009. Nobody seems to know that I have always
suffered because I love social justice. Prior to my imprisonment, I
had on three occasions been detained at Jinja Road Police station
because I was striving to liberate Gaudence Tushabomwe who had been
dumped in Butabika after fleecing her of her Sh 25million via COWE.
Tushabomwe has now finished campus. She was given a state house
scholarship afte I rescued her from that hell - Butabika where the
state wanted to kill her using drugs. I liberated Sarah Miraji who had
spent six months in police cells at Jinja Road Police stations. I have
liberated too many people who are always illegally detained in police
cells. And because Sewanyana cons donors of their funds ostensibly to
do human rights work which he does not do, he thinks he is my equal. I
am a human rights defender; Sewanyana and his ilk are human rights
offenders.

5. I am saddened that these so-called human rights defenders can
exhibit naked ignorance on facebook. They say, I spent 10 months in
jail in 2010 on a charge of assault and defamation. Can they prove (a)
that I have ever been charged with defamation to begin with, (b) that
I spent 10 months in jail?

6. Can FHRI name the alleged female staff member that I attempted to
rape? The truth of the matter is that I have never had feelings for
the woman they allege I attempted to rape. I respect her as a human
being but despise her character. Moreover, exceptionally beautiful and
brilliant women who want me are so many that I cannot in anyway have
time for the shadows at FHRI that have been desecrated by the FHRI
director.

7. I expect FHRI to name a male staff member that I allegedly
assaulted and the one that I allegedly caused grievous bodily harm.
Let them also detail the cause of me assaulting and causing grievous
bodily harm to those people. If you have ever been to a law class, you
must have studied about causation. We need the truth to be told
boldly, clearly and shamelessly.

8. If I have defamed anyone at FHRI, I am ready for the long arm of
the law. I know two defences in a defamation suit, i) justification,
ii) fair comment. I am ready to justify everything I have said and
written about FHRI and Sewanyana. I will not even bother myself hiring
a lawyer if they sued me for defamation.

9. It is shameless on the part of Livingstone Sewanyana to deny that I
have been a staff member at FHRI. Those of you who have read the FHRI
reports must have read my name in some of those reports. Let FHRI and
Livingstone explain whether they were hiring me as a consultant or how
my name ended in those reports. In fact, I am suing FHRI for all my
unpaid dues. Josephine Kankunda, Carol Adoch, Olweny Charles Mulozi,
Mike Kayiwa, Edmond Nkalubo, Rashid Bunya among others that I worked
with in the research are the ones to testify in court whether or not I
have ever been FHRI staff member. But even if I have never been a
staff member, so what?

10. I expect FHRI to name all the prominent members of academia,
media, civil society judiciary and government that I have defamed.
Give the details – show which person I have defamed and what are the
contents that constitute defamatory statements I have made and where.
Has it been libel, slander or both? Otherwise, this statement is
simply hogwash and must be thrown into the garbage skip.

11. Please, be candid and show the people I have blackmailed with a
view of extorting money from them. I have laboured to build my name. I
do not expect the intellectual dwarfs at FHRI to erase the good name I
have built for ages.

12. If you are calling upon the public to expose and isolate me
through lawful means, why don't you take the lead. You have all the
facts about me (or you claim to have all the facts about me),
including my sexual life, why do you call upon members of the public
who are less knowledgeable about me to expose me lawfully.

13. Finally, FHRI has committed all sorts of attrocities against me.
These range from exploitation, mishandling of my cases, theft of my
money, torture, bruta, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. On the
4th November 2013, they forced me to lie down looking into the sun
directly. Crispy Kaheru, Tao Tao Gwada Ogot and all other members of
staff witnessed that horror. It is the very time I was deprived of my
money, computer and other stuff. It is the very day, Elly Kasirye,
Livingstone Sewanyana's nephew battered me terribly. It is that very
day that my phone was shattered. I am sure, I will get justice. I am
going to write to all FHRI donors whose addresses I have, I will write
formally to Prof George W. Kanyeihamba, the FHRI patron and I will
write to the FHRI Board of Directors headed by my very own recruit
into FHRI Reverand Canon John Kateeba Tumwiine. We must have an
extraordinary Annual General Meeting to address these critical
matters. I have in the past handed myself to the police following the
wild claims by FHRI that I am a hardcore criminal and nothing has been
done to me. I now call upon the police to arrest me, take me to court
and call Livingstone Sewanyana as a state witness against me.

Regards,

Vincent Nuwagaba
+256702843552

Viele GruBe

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