MP Zaake slams Wangadya UHRC body

The National Unity Platform party youth wing leader also legislator for Mityana Municipality Zaake Francis Butebi has slammed the Uganda Human Rights Commission body, pronouncing it a toothless institution that is incapacitated to check on government.

Speaking on the NTV ‘Ebigambo Tebitta’ political program this morning, the MP was one of the panelists invited to debate on the state of Human Rights in the country. He had been invited alongside the UHRC member Ruth Ssekindi who later on unceremoniously withdrew from the panel at the eleventh hour and was replaced by the NRM Buganda caucus chairperson Brandon Kintu.

Speaking about the state of the human rights, Hon. Zaake said that Wangadya herself is on record decrying the brutality. Zaake says Wangadya herself said she was being witch hunted and threatened by unknown individuals who wanted to end her life.

“The UHRC chairperson herself said some people wanted to kill her. She is on record. How then does such a person think she can put this regime to check?,” Zaake wondered. “She is partial and biased. She has been heard so many times faulting victims of torture,” he added.