Arrested NUP Members, Campaign team aligned before Masaka High Court.

By Rachael Najjuma & Ben Musanje

4^th January 2021

The jailed members of the National Unity Platform-NUP party campaign team who were arrested from Kalangala district have been produced before the Masaka High court this afternoon aboard a Uganda Prisons Services truck that picked them from Masaka Central police stations.

Some of the suspects appeared in bad shape as they were limping. They chanted People-Power slogans as they made their way to the court waiting cells. Magellan Kazibwe, one of the NUP lawyers says that they were ready to defend them before the court.

Kazibwe says they have instruction to apply for bail such that the suspects can have temporary freedom from detention.

The suspects include the close associates of Robert Kyagulanyi, the NUP presidential candidate.

They are Ali Bukenya alias Nubian Li, Daniel Kalimaki aka Dan Magic and Edward Ssebuwufu, alias Eddie Mutwe. The court is yet to convene to read the charges for the suspects.

Over 90 people were picked up during Kyagulanyi’s campaign trail in Kalangala district on Wednesday last week but Kyagulanyi was arrested and airlifted on a military chopper to Kololo before being driven to his home in Magere in Wakiso district.

Earlier on the Police spokesperson Fred Enanga had indicated that out of 126 suspects arrested in Kalangala district on December 30^th when NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi was campaigning, 99 of them were from Kampala and other areas and are to be charged of assault of police officers, incitement to violence, malicious damage, doing a negligence act likely to spread an infectious disease and inconsiderate use of a public road among others.

Fred Enanga, told journalists says that 25 of the suspects confirmed to be residents of Kalangala district and will be charged at Kalangala Chief Magistrate’s Court on the same charges after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) sanctioned their files.

Meanwhile, Enanga decried growing misinformation and disinformation especially among social media users as January 14 polls draw closer.