Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a Research Fellow at Makerere Univeristy who recently staged a nude protest against her boss Prof. Mahmood Mamdani has now drawn her guns against Vision Group. Nyanzi has dragged Vision Group to court accusing them of trespass among other things. Read her full post below.
“We are popping wine, sipping juices , laughing and high- fiving in my house, in celebration of another big win. My lawyers led by Counsel Isaac K. Ssemakadde of Centre for Legal Aid have brought me some sweet-sweet-sweet juicy news. They have served the Vision Group this afternoon with court papers.
We are suing this public media house for taking my personal institutional fight against the rot at MISR #RotAtMISR to my father’s grave, home and private business. Why haunt my innocent relatives with glaring cameras, unwelcome interviews and deceptive representation?
They have two weeks to respond to the suit. Some of the remedies we require include:
1. A declaration that Bukedde’s tresspass onto my ancestors’ graveyard and publicising information about my parents, family, home and upbringing infringed on me and my family’s human rights protected by the Constitution.
2. A declaration that Bukedde’s desecration (i.e. pupuing, susuing and farting with their cameras and recorders) on my father’s burial grounds violated our customary and cultural values protected by the Constitution of Uganda. My father was the Ssabalangira w’esiga lya Kyagambiddwa, a clan elder of the Buffalo clan’s hierarchy in Buganda.
3. An order directing Bukedde to immediately publish a full and unreserved apology to me and my family, that is equal to the damage that they did to our family. The media must pay for the sin of tresspassing on my family’s private property, poking their long ugly noses into our private affairs, and tarnishing my ancestors’ memory.
I alone undressed in protest. Neither my deceased ancestors nor my living relations protested against Mamdani. MISR was the theatre of my protest, not my father’s graveyard, family property, business grounds or investments.
Stay away from my people, suckers! See you in court.”
Staff Writer