If you are joining us for the first time: In Episode 1, we met Mzee Zakayo, who never built a granary but ate from the labor of others. His son Okello Anyapo inherited his appetite but not his cattle, and emptied his uncle Owera’s granary because he was given access without rules. In Episode 2, we lifted our eyes to Uganda’s constitutional granary, built in 1995, and watched Parliament abandon its duty to build walls around it. We saw the seven famines: the Shs 763 billion justice tax, the incompetence shield, the two-man cartel, the executive pocket veto, the criminalization of transparency, the ghost tier of unaccountable actors, and the commission that judges itself.
THIS IS THE SOIL FROM WHICH ULS CONSTITUTIONAL PETITION NO. 12 OF 2025: UGANDA LAW SOCIETY VS ATTORNEY GENERAL ROSE
The petition was filed. The Application for a temporary injunction to halt Judicial appointments pending disposal of the main petition; The arguments were made. The rot was laid bare.
And the Constitutional Court is in no hurry.
The cause list does not call it. The months pass. The granary empties further.
Every day the petition sleeps is a day Okello eats.
Every delay is a verdict delivered without judgment, a verdict that says: this urgency is not our urgency.
The villagers are watching the courthouse door, just as they watch the granary door.
And the door does not open.
WHILE THE PETITION SLEPT
An urgent Constitutional Application, Application No. 11 of 2025, was filed alongside the main petition. It asked the court to halt all judicial appointments pending the determination of the substantive petition.
Among the grounds: the Judicial Service Commission was unlawfully constituted, missing the two nominees the Constitution requires from the Uganda Law Society.
The Constitutional Court did not cause-list that application.
So the appointments proceeded.
The new Chief Justice, the Hon. Fr. Flavian Zeija, was sworn in.
The new Principal Judge, the Hon. Judge Jane Francis Abodo, was sworn in.
Before his elevation, the Hon. Dr. Justice Zeija was the Deputy Chief Justice. In that capacity, he presided over the very Constitutional Court that received Application No. 11 of 2025, the application asking the court to pause appointments, including his own.
The court did not list the application. No reasons were given. The appointments proceeded.
In Abongodero, the elders would say: when the man guarding the granary door benefits from what passes through it, the door stays open.
These are facts. Draw your own conclusions.
THE POWER TO STOP ALL THIS LIES IN YOUR HANDS AS A CITIZEN AND AJURI CONSTITUENCY IS PROOF OF CONCEPT.
The Honorable Hamson Obua did not lose by accident.
He rehearsed monarchy in public. He crowned himself Holy Trinity, God the Father, Honorable Member of Parliament, Ajuri Constituency, God the Son, Government Chief and God the Holy Spirit, Vice National Chairperson of the National Resistance Movement for Northern Uganda of political titles. He spoke succession like family inheritance: Museveni, then Muhoozi, then Muhoozi’s children.
Ajuri listened.
They watched soldiers. They watched a disputed poll. They watched power glare at them from armored vehicles.
And they voted again.
Twice in under one month.
History does not always move slowly. Sometimes it slaps.
Enter Badman Jalameso.
Teacher. Organizer. Refusal embodied. Not a dynasty. Not a surname throne. Just a man carried by exhaustion with entitlement.
Badman Jalameso is not a saint. He is a signal.
The signal is this: voters will rise when the granary stays empty. They will require answers and when the answers are not forthcoming, The leader who fails to answer appropriately will be sent back home.
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**[End of Episode 3]**
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