Moses Ssimbwa, an accident victim who was paraded as a torture victim by the National Unity Platform party during the International Human Rights conference in Nairobi Kenya, has apologized for defaming the Government of Uganda.
Ssimbwa said this while apologizing to the president of Uganda H.E Yoweri K Museveni, who was presiding over the 38th National Resistance Movement Anniversary Liberation Celebrations held on Friday, January 26 2024 at St.John’s Secondary School Wakitaka in Jinja city in Busoga region.
According to Ssimbwa, some top leaders in the opposition lured him into chaotic scenes and false claims to stain the NRM Government after he got involved in a fatal accident and sustained severe injuries, that NUP allegedly claimed were a result of state torture.
“I have been used by the opposition for chaotic scenes and false claims to stain the image of the government. We youth do these things because we’re too poor. I have come to apologize to you and Uganda at large,” Ssimbwa said.
Ssimbwa added that top opposition leaders lied to him that they would clear all his hospital bills in Nairobi but he was surprised when they delivered him to an international human rights conference in Nairobi, where they paraded him as a state torture victim.
“While moving me to Nairobi, they lied to me that they were taking me to hospital to treat my leg, that injured during an accident. However, I ended up at the human rights conference”, he said.
He said that he is ready to reveal deep secrets of the opposition, and requested that President Museveni assign him security.
In his remarks, President Museveni said that he will stop at nothing to expose such elements in opposition, instructing those like Ssimbwa to continue exposing those individuals who want to cause chaos in Uganda.
At the Uganda Human Rights Accountability Conference in Ufungamano House, Nairobi on November 17, 2022, Ssimbwa was joined by other supposed “torture victims,” including Ssebuganda Richard (who lost his hand in a students’ strike at Makerere University in 2020), and Kamuswaga Moses (who was injured while attempting to detonate a tear gas canister in 2012).
