By Our Reporter
NATIONAL
Uganda’s High Commissioner to Canada, Joy Ruth Acheng, has been declared “persona non grata” for allegedly engaging in “uncouth behaviour” by the Canadian government
Information from the inner corridors of power at the Foreign Affairs Ministry confided to this reporter that Acheng is going to be deported on August 21, 2024, for uncouth behaviour in Canada.
Acheng’s deportation alert comes just a week after the National Unity Platform (NUP) party president Robert Kyagulanyi, took to X, formerly Twitter accusing Acheng of openly engaging in partisan politics in Canada.
Kyagulanyi shared a video, which went viral on social media, in which Acheng appeared to be in an angry exchange with a group of NUP supporters who were allegedly protesting on a street in Toronto, a major Canadian city.
Acheng appeared in an armless yellow dress, wearing dark glasses.
She also had a yet-to-be-identified woman, who was also dressed in yellow, who was using a smartphone camera to shoot footage.
It should be remembered that under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which governs how states interact, the host country can “at any time and for any reason” declare a person to be persona non grata – unwelcome in their country.
In the video, the ambassador was also seen at one point taking selfies with some NUP supporters who were wearing red outfits such as caps and T-shirts.
The exchange was reportedly sparked off by claims that Achileo Kivumbi, the head of security at the NUP headquarters in Kampala had been abducted by security operatives near his home in Nansana, Wakiso district.
Kivumbi was later arraigned in the General Court Martial in the City on August 5 and charged with possession of military wear of a lieutenant colonel. He was remanded to Luzira Prison until September 2, 2024.
“The problem is that you abduct yourselves. You people, stop abducting yourselves and killing yourselves, saying it is [President Yoweri] Museveni,” Acheng, a former Kole Woman MP on the Uganda People’s Congress party ticket, was heard telling NUP supporters in the video.
She was also heard threatening to call the Police to “kick you (NUP supporters) out of this place”.
