Kampala: Former Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine has protested the new wave of arrests of National Unity Platform-NUP supporters by security in the days leading to the May 12 Presidential inauguration. President Museveni, the winner of the Jan 14 elections was sworn in on Wednesday (May 12).
Amid fears that there would be protests from opposition backed mobs to disrupt the inauguration at Kololo, security was heightened in and around Kampala. Several arrests were made days ahead of the function. Bobi Wine now alleges that majority of those arrested were targeted for being supporters of the Kamwokya outfit. He also claims that most of the victims are currently being held by the Chieftaincy of Military intelligence- Mbuya but critically tortured.
“These are some of our comrades who were abducted from different areas between 10th and 12th May. We have reliably learnt that most of them are being held at CMI headquarters in Mbuya and being subjected to all manner of torture and humiliation,” Bobi Wine said in a statement posted on his social media platforms. Those, he says include; Nuhu Sanya, Sebagala Gordon, Kasisi Richard, Lutaaya Olivia, Kalyango Muhamood, Munanyagwa Fred, Machete Yasin, Segujja Rashid, Kiweewa Evan Jordan, Mayiga Ronald and Nyombi Richard.
The party has since deployed it’s legal team to fight for the release of the victims. Meanwhile, he has condemned what he calls ” the blatant abuse of the law with impunity” and described the arrest and detention of civilians in military detentions as not only illegal but also a sign of cowardice.
“We continue to condemn in the strongest terms possible, the blatant abuse of the law with impunity. Abducting innocent citizens and holding them in military cells and other illegal detention centers is not only illegal, but also a sign great cowardice. These are crimes against humanity which will be accounted for, ” he says.
