The trial of MP Muhammad Ssegirinya for allegedly inciting public violence via his Facebook page has today had its first witness who also happens to be Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) news editor, Juliet Nayiga who provided evidence.
Nayiga took the stand to testify that Ssegirinya, on his Facebook page between August and September 2020 said, “I am warning those who are trying to assassinate Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu that what will happen will be forty times worse than the 1994 Rwandan genocide”.
Buganda Grade Magistrate Siena Owomugisha, state prosecutors Peter Mugisha and Ivan Kyazze presented Nayiga as the first state witness.
Nayiga informed the court that the Managing Director of UBC radio assigned her to translate and transcribe the video footage of Ssegirinya allegedly inciting violence.
In the blood-soaked 100 days which started in April 1994, about 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in Rwanda reportedly by ethnic Hutu extremists calling themselves the Interahamwe (“those who work/ fight together”). They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin.
