By; Francis Lubega
12th Nov. 2020
The National Unity platform-NUP has created its Emergency Response Unit to treat victims of injuries sustained during encounters of Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi’s campaigns team with security forces.
NUP says a number of their party supporters are nursing injuries in different hospitals across the country.
According to Dr Joel Mirembe the head of NUP’s professional’s wing, the idea of creating the unit came after only the two days of presidential nominations in Kyambogo and manifesto launch in Mbarara in which more than 20 party leaders and supporters were badly injured by security agencies.
On Tuesday last week, after Kyagulanyi’s nominations, several of his supporters were arrested while other leaders sustained injuries including NUP spokesman Joel Ssenyonyi and Dr Lina Zedriga the northern Region NUP president in a scuffles when police was preventing Kyagulanyi from going to Kamwokya to launch his manifesto.
Later NUP was forced to launch their manifesto in Mbarara. However, on the return journey to Kampala a number of Kyagulanyi’s team members were knocked by a speeding security vehicle around Busega on the northern bypass.
At least ten NUP Bobi-Wine diehards of ‘Busabala Best Army’ and outriders of the pro-Kyagulanyi diehard groups were severely injured that night Dr Mirembe confirms.
Muhammad Ssegirinya who is the Minister of disaster preparedness in NUP said some of the members and well-wishers who have been contributing in party fundraising drives have started giving them money to support the two members who are in critical conditions but condemns the continued acts of brutality done on them as opposition members by security agencies
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