Late last week, court released political activist Stella Nyanzi from Luzira prisons following successful appeal hearing of her case of Cyber harassment and computer misuse against the President of Uganda.
Prior to the case, Nyanzi was a very vocal and vulgar critique of the government and the person of the President, using lewd and sexual language to demean his capacity and drive her point home to an eager radical crowd.
Some have described her as fierce and unrelenting in her pursuit of social and political justice, but i call it vulgarization of due democratic process to sustain relevance and attract undue attention. This particular case was relating to her lewd use of demeaning terms to describe the President and in so doing undermined his personality and degrading the virtues and ethos that he stands for.
The trend is not new but the former Makerere University has taken it to a new level that has unduly propelled her to national and international level, justifying her mannerism as a necessary weapon in the fight for feminism in a world that women have been apparently denied any other tools.
Deep down we all know that Stella Nyanzi intends to run for political office and the shortest path to that destination is through civil disobedience and the exuberance of defiance and strength against the state. Nyanzi is a member of the forum for democratic change and is rumored to be viewing the Kampala woman MP position currently being occupied by Nabilla Naggayi, who is seen by many as having gone stale.
Nyanzi is not a civil rights activists but rather a political opportunist, one that has been carefully vetted and chosen by the radical opposition wing of Uganda’s politics. She is an embroilment of everything that has gone wrong within our society and the downhill trajectory on which our politics now resides.