Should one be hated or shunned for being honest and truthful?

Last year, I received an email from a reader of Sunday Monitor who observed that I write excellent articles, but they could be more interesting to every reader if only I did not always refer to my own experience or stand on public issues. I was curious about this strange advice and I shared it with friends.
The gist of their collective advice can be summarised as follows: “You do not know but many Ugandans, especially lawyers and politicians, fear you for being brutally honest”.

“Actually, many of them fear to be associated with you or your opinions, especially if they think or believe that other people who may not share your opinions or who lack integrity themselves would dislike or resent them if they kept you company.”
I now know why many of my learned friends, religious leaders and former colleagues avoid my company. Before an accident and hospitalisation from which I am slowly recovering, my house was like a studio with many people, including VIPs, eagerly coming in and seeking my advice and audience.

I have heard angry responses from professionals and technicians after I have rightly pointed out the mistakes or omissions they have made or left in their work, on conduct or behaviour.
I have been castigated by political friends and foes alike. I am shunned and avoided by some religious bigots while appreciated and highly recommended by others.
Commonwealth scholars and intellectuals have voted me as deserving the award of a lifetime achievement. The consortium of Uganda Writers, Book Publishers and Booksellers have recognised and rewarded me the second trophy of lifetime achievement as a writer.

Only this year, I was a nominee for the Nobel Prize. Despite all this, I have also been eagerly reported as having died on two separate occasions in a period of the last 10 years, not necessarily that those reporters wish I were dead.
I have been forcibly or deceitfully arrested and detained once in a safe house with so many of my friends and journalists in the know but fearing to say or do anything about it.
Media houses fear or hesitate to publish or be associated with my convictions and opinions while I am much more appreciated outside my own country.

Can anyone who reads this article advise me how to ignore my upbringing, culture, and integrity so that I may be loved by my compatriots?
On second thoughts, do not take risks. It is most likely that I will always be guided by what I have always believed in, “Worry about what God thinks of you, not about what other people say about you.”