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Aug 24, 2026
Shadows in State House: Blackmail, Lies, and the Fragility of Ugandan Power
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5:12Charles Onyango-ObboHOST
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5:13Charles Onyango-ObboHOST
this, uh, this, uh, this story of, uh, this young man, Steven Nuwagaba, the, to, to our, to our non-Ugandan, non-East African kind of, uh, you know, more global audience, this, this has been an incredible story that was covered in The Independent, uh, magazine, which, uh, uh, you know, u- uh, Andrew is the chief there.
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5:39Charles Onyango-ObboHOST
He's, uh, um ...
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5:41Charles Onyango-ObboHOST
And, uh, he, he wrote a column, they have done a series of article, and it's an incredible story.
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5:47Charles Onyango-ObboHOST
This young man, he represents something very rare.
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5:51Charles Onyango-ObboHOST
He's what you might call a torture entrepreneur, mm? He is- [laughs] He, he, he, he claimed he was being tortured And he has gained to the highest echelons of the state, and he's basically hijacked sections of the state, and particularly the security state, and he has used it, uh, you know, to the every...
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6:17Charles Onyango-ObboHOST
You know, to the, the reporting from The Independent to profit himself in ways which Uganda has rarely seen and a few countries have actually seen.
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6:30Charles Onyango-ObboHOST
And, uh, and, uh, the- there has been a lot of pushback from certain sections of the state against, uh, against, uh, this reporting by The Independent and Andrew's commentary about it.