Dr. Stella Mwangi, a former lecturer at the prestigious Makerere University, has been in custody at Luzira Prison since November last year on flimsy charges.
Uganda CID spokesperson, Superintendent of Police Vincent Ssekatte said that the distinguished scholar was arrested and held over cyber harassment and offensive communication.
She allegedly called upon President Museveni’s deceased mother, Esteri Kokundeka, to come take her son away since he’s torturing and murdering Ugandans and looting the country’s resources. Dr. Nyanzi also attacked Esteri for raising and looking away as her son continued to cause suffering to Ugandans.
Kenyans are now calling for the despotic Ugandan leader to release Dr. Stella with immediate effect.
Museveni, who is set for a public lecture at Kenyatta University, may meet a shock of his life if the students heckle him.
Human Rights’ Activists have urged KU students to boo the dictator, who has a record of torturing dissenting voices in his country.
In January, Dr. Nyanzi revealed that she had miscarried her baby while in prison. This is in addition to the fact that she was fired in December last year.
Stella embodies the terms “outspoken” and “fearless”. She is a Ugandan academic, mother, feminist, a forthright activist and a leading voice in the women’s rights movement.
In 2017, she fervently criticised the policies of the Education Minister, also the First Lady of Uganda Janet Museveni. Janet Museveni had announced in parliament that the government lacked the funds to fulfil the president’s election promise of providing sanitary pads to school girls.
Dr Nyanzi was livid, and stated: “What sort of malice plays in the heart of a woman who sleeps with a man who finds money for millions of bullets, billions of bribes and uncountable ballots to stuff into boxes but she cannot ask him to prioritise sanitary pads for poor schoolgirls? She is no Mama — she is just Janet!”