{UAH} Why Stella Nyanzi will win Kampala Woman MP seat
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During the Head of State's 74th birthday, Nyanzi published an explicit poem on Facebook in which she loathed Museveni's 33-year-long rule characterized by underdevelopment and corruption wishing he had died in childbirth.
Two charges, cyber-harassment and disturbing the peace of the President were brought against her for abusing the first family. Nyanzi was arrested on 2nd November 2018 and charged with cyber harassment and offensive communication.
It was now up to the judge to assess her as "obscene, coarse, lewd, or lascivious". Many lashed out at her on social media calling her an immoral person who was suffering from poor grooming.
Her first appearance at the court was marked with controversy, Nyanzi flashed her breasts and yelled vulgarities in protest to the magistrate's 18 months sentence. She was sent to prison for 18 months to cool and grow sane.
Nyanzi raised eyebrows in the next court session when she assumed the seat of the Magistrate who had absconded duty by showing everyone her middle finger. "I intend to disorganize Museveni because he has offended us for over 30 years and we are tired of a dictatorship." She roared blasphemies as Prison wardens led her to the waiting bus.
Nyanzi defended herself during the next court appearance by referring to a saying used in the speech of Mr. Museveni at the heat of Presidential campaigns in 2016, "If you put your hands in the anus of a leopard, you are in trouble," to prove to court that she learnt these 'bad manners' from the Head of State.
"He was the first to use obscene words, President Museveni was left to walk freely and no case was charged against him for the use of vulgar language."Nyanzi retorted.
Dr. Stella Nyanzi is not fresh from controversies, the Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, Barnabas Nawangwe was pressured to discharge her from her job, a move many thought was facilitated or okayed at the very least by the First Lady, the Minister of Education.
Before this, Nyanzi staged a protest at Makerere University over an office eviction dispute. Dr. Nyanzi was appalled by the amount of workload she was assigned to work on, she was "constrained" by her boss Professor Mahmood Mamdani to lecture PHD classes as well as do research an alteration going against her contract.
Professor Mamdani had her office locked but Dr Nyanzi never budged. To express her distaste, she stripped naked in front of TV cameras for the press and the world to see what her momma gave her.During the trials, Nyanzi maintained she was innocent and had no case to answer. In the following court session her lawyers had a Question-Answer session with State's witness, Mr. Charles Dalton Opwonya in which they required him to explain the "lewdness and obscenity'' in Nyanzi's writing".
Below is the dialogue:
Q: Is vagina a dirty word?
Opwonya: Most of the time it is.
Q: Is the Vagina a clean thing?
Opwonya: Yes.
Q: Can a vagina be dirty?
Opwonya: Yes, if you don't wash it.
Nyanzi's lawyers were unsuccessful in bringing this trial to a win.
Dr Stella Nyanzi claims she is fighting injustice; she accentuates an African tradition where old women protest through nudity, though it is uncommon it is thought to bring rotten luck to those who torment and tragedy to their families.Therefore, when an old woman of her age uses obscenities, it is useless to ask if she is mad. Those who feel ashamed should turn to the old man and ask "See what you have done? Mr. Museveni, have you no shame that now women have to strip naked?" She says this is a mirror image of the country, decency is pointless when the fountain of honor is dishonorable, that the government should leave her to fight for the rights of oppressed Ugandans.
In Incarceration she scribbles;
No Roses From my Mouth
There will be no orgasm
Coming from my mouth
Who cares about pleasure during war?
Instead there is venom and acid…
My thighs pressed hard onto someone's arse
My arse pressed hard onto another's thighs
This sequence of adult thighs pressing adult arse…
Dr. Stella Nyanzi Considers Museveni a warmonger who operates outside limits of decency. She is disappointed that the government ignored women and yet in the 1990s, they used the feminist as a firewall political opposition.
Nyanzi wrote numerous poems while in incarceration and smuggled dozens of them out of prison. Many others were confiscated by prison administrators and destroyed.
Her various protests advocate for equal rights for the minorities especially rights for Ugandan's LGBTQi community.
"I'm a queer by specialization. I do things queer, I study queer communities in Uganda, that is the language we speak'', She explained.
She has criticized President Museveni for having failed to fulfill his campaign promise of providing free sanitary pads to girls in schools so that they don't drop out because of menstrual periods. In her habitual explicit language, Dr. Nyanzi accused the first lady of being out of touch with reality as a mother of the nation.
Despite all the controversy, Dr. Nyanza is striding forth to represent the Women in Kampala City. She is vying to unseat Nabila Naggayi, the current Woman MP.
With her massive local support garnered over the years and growing social media fans, famous Stella Nyanzi is coming in full package to give a voice to thousands of voiceless women in Kampala.
She has established #TeamNyanzi to help her do the ground work and she is now readying for the primaries through Uganda's main opposition party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).
''Am not limited like others, I have blessings from the former FDC President, Dr. Kizza Besigye and People Power's Bobi Wine.'' She boasted.
She also revealed her distaste towards the ruling NRM party, her main reason for joining active politics is to shelter Kampala and Ugandans from oppressors of the dubious NRM party.
"Unity is strength. All we need is a united stand against this party in power. We need to do away with factions and divisionism if we are to make any progress," Nyanzi told the Press.
She says the electorate is disappointed in opposition MPs for doing nothing in terms of contributing towards the legislative processes of Uganda. They have gone ahead to make laws that oppress the common man and yet they are representatives of their communities' needs.
She questioned the importance of decent language when nothing has been achieved to improve the plight of the ordinary person.
''Decent language! Of what use is it? I would rather be vulgar and transform things than be silent or be polite in ways that do not change situations," Nyanzi said.
By Maria Gorret Nakirya,
Reporter, Fourth Television
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