Relatives of the victims of the November 2020 killings that dominated Kampala and Wakiso have appealed to the Uganda Human Rights Commission chairperson Ms. Mariam Wangadya to prosecute renowned NRM blogger Olaxes Ismah alias ‘Jajja Iculi.’
The Sweden returnee turned NRM blogger in a November 2020 video clip he made live on his page issued reckless statements and glorified the security forces for gunning down as many citizens as they encountered on the streets of Kampala.
In the same video, Jajja Iculi expressed his dismay with the small death toll, and rallied security forces to shoot as many as they could so Uganda could tally with Bashar Al Asad’s Syria.
“You are even cry babies. That number is way smaller than what Asad has killed in Syria. Bashar Al Asad has killed oved 3 million. You are crying over less than 100 dead bodies,” Iculi recklessly reiterated in a viral video clip. “I was Bobi Wine and his supporters to be beaten thoroughly well. Zaake, Ssenyonyi and all NUP supporters must be beaten so well. We don’t want western puppets. We don’t want Uganda to land in the hands of homosexuals (LGBT),” Iculi added.
With the November killings commemoration dates of 18th and 19th looming closer, the relatives of the victims of the killing spree want security officers involved in the carnage to be apprehended. Relatedly they’ve also tasked concerned authorities to arrest blogger Iculi and charge him with offensive communication.
“The words he uttered still etch on my mind. I feel so devastated and disgusted to see such a man lounging freely,” said a relative to then 15 year old Amos Ssegawa, a Senior Two student shot dead in the November protests. “I recently broke my TV when Iculi was hosted on Faridah Nakazibwe’s Mwasuze Mutya show. Iculi should be in jail for his words, not talk shows,” added the enraged Ssegawa relative.
When Ekyooto contacted the police cyber crimes unit headed by Detective Bill Ndyamuhaki, he did not give any hints on whether the NRM blogger would be arrested for disturbing the peace of the dead.
