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  • in reply to: The Uganda dictator, Yoweri Museveni #102

    Dictator Yoweri Museveni addresses a group of crime presenters


    Angry residents of Nyakaguruka village, Rugando Sub County in Rwampara Mbarara district on Monday engaged the police in running battles as they protested the murder by police crime preventers of a fellow resident.

    Last week, crime preventers allegedly clobbered David Muganzi, 30, a charcoal seller in Kisenyi Cell – Mbarara Municipality, to death during a security operation at night.

    While returning from a party in Kisenyi at about 1am, Muganzi relatives say, their relative was arrested by crime preventers attached to Mandela Police Post in Kakoba Division of Mbarara Municipality who then asked him to cough Shs 20,000. Failure to give them the money incensed the reportedly drunken crime preventers to pounce on Muganzi, leaving him unconscious.

    The father of four children and husband to two wives would later be rushed to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital where he succumbed to  internal bleeding and multiple wounds.

    Muganzi’s relatives also claimed that police had threatened them – telling them to report that Muganzi had been knocked down by a speeding motorcycle.

    Three crime preventers and two police officers would then be arrested after Muganzi’s relatives contacted the local Police Professional Standards Unit.  But the suspects’ detention would not last longer.

    The release of the suspects infuriated the residents who declined to collect Muganzi’s body from the mortuary. Police would later dump the deceased’s body at his home in Kinoni

    on Saturday evening further incensing the residents who blocked the Mbarara-Ntungamo road until police fired teargas to disperse them.

    To calm the residents, Mbarara DPC Jaffar Magyezi promised to give the family Shs 1m to help in funeral arrangements and Shs 2.8 to clear medical bills.

    That seemed to placate the residents until Monday when DPC Magyezi refused to give relatives the authentic autopsy report, causing more confrontation between cops and residents.

    Mbarara Resident District Commissioner Capt. Martha Asiimwe intervened with the copy of the post-mortem, an apology and Shs 1m to help with funeral expenses.

    in reply to: When Odonga Otto and Winnie Byanyima Fool Ugandans #101

    Government has splashed over Shs500m of tax-payers money to foot bills of MPs and parliamentary staff who are in Gabon to watch the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament.

    A source within the Parliament commission who preferred anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter said various committees and the commission sponsored about 25 MPs to travel and cheer the team.

    The legislators’ daily maintenance costs in Gabon is thus a financial curse for the struggling economy and it might as well be good that the team has been ejected which will help cut on the expenses.

    Each MP who stays outside the country is given a daily per Diem of $520 (about Shs1, 872,000).Each member of staff gets 320 dollars.

    That means MPs spent Shs468, 000, 000 in per diem alone for the last ten days without the Speaker’s entourage and technical staff, which on average are five people.

    MPs also spent another $19,750 (about Shs69, 125,000) on flight. A return Economy ticket to Gabon in Kenya airways cost $790.

    On the other hand, MPs also splashed another $1,250 (aboutShs4, 423,620) in match tickets. Each ticket for a match in Gabon cost $50.

    The quoted amount, however, doesn’t include the technical staff and the speaker’s extra costs.

    Although the Ugandan team, budgeted Shs6billion to go through this tournament, the government gave them only Shs1 billion with a promise of another Shs1 billion should Cranes progress from group stage.

    The Ugandan team could, therefore, be the poorest facilitated in Gabon and among the worst performers but via tax payer’s money, the cranes have the most expensive cheerers.

    Some of the of the Mps on the delegation include; Anita Among, Mohammed Nsereko, Charles Bakabulindi, Moses Kasibante, Elijah Okupa,  Conney Nakayenza Galiwango, Odongo Otto, Harrison Obua, Allan Sewanyana and Jalia Bintu, and Peter Ogwang.

    Nevertheless, our source indicated that MPs like Moses Kasibante, Allan Sewanyana, Charles Bakabulindi, and  Conney Nakayenza Galiwango are members of the Parliament committee on education and sports who would ordinarily be justified to travel because of the nature of their parliament duties as members of the committee on education and have to  play the oversight role.

    But others belong to different committees like Anita Among on the statutory enterprise committee and Mohammed Nsereko belongs to the equal opportunities committee while Harrison Obua is the Captain of the parliamentary team.

    Also, MPs Odongo Otto and Jalia Bintu are members of the Parliament football and netball team respectively.

    It is reported that some of these MPs were facilitated from the parliamentary sports budget others were facilitated by their committees and the rest by the commission.

    All in all, the MPs, irrespective of which budget they accessed to travel were all facilitated by the tax payers.

    When contacted to find out whether their trip was being funded by parliament or the legislators themselves, the parliament spokesperson Chris Obore, in a rude response said the legislators had gone to watch football like any other fan.

    “Parliament even contributed money for the Uganda Cranes so they have gone to watch football,”Obore told the SpearTeam referring to the Shs215m that parliament donated to the national team twice less than their trip expense, before he hang up on phone.

    The extravagant expenditure comes hardly five months after the same institution spent Shs2billion on the Speaker and her deputy alongside a delegation of 78 MPs and several parliamentary support staff to attend a three days’ convention of Ugandans living in diaspora last year.

    Some legislators who were contacted on the matter did not support the arrangement to sponsor their colleagues to travel and cheer the team in Gabon.

    Although he said the delegation could have used their personal funds to travel to Gabon, Nakase County South MP Paul Lutamaguzi said “Parliament has the power to increase the sports budget other than spending money at the last minute to cheer them.”

    But the fact that the deputy opposition Chief Whip Mugume Kaginda, when contacted, revealed that opposition was represented by MPs Kasibante, Okupa and Ssewanyana, is evident that the delegation was apparently funded by parliament.

    in reply to: When Odonga Otto and Winnie Byanyima Fool Ugandans #100

    SO, THE 6 BILLION WAS FRAUDULENTLY PASSED AS A SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET FOR NON-TEACHING STAFF!! AND THESE LIARS AND SWINDLERS ARE STILL IN OFFICE AT URA, FINANCE MINISTRY, KCCA,ENERGY MINISTRY ETC?? THE FACT THAT THE WHOLE SCHEME WAS DESIGNED BY JANET MUSEVENI , KAGINA, AKOL AND MUHAKANIZI, MEANS THE WHOLE INQUIRY IS MORE WASTE OF THE LITTLE MONEY LEFT.JANET MUSEVENI SHARED ON THE LOOT TO THE TUNE OF 339 MILLION AND HER MONEY WAS PASSED ON TO HER VIA MOLLY KAMUKAMA OF STATE HOUSE.

    in reply to: The Uganda dictator, Yoweri Museveni #99

    If Mr. Museveni does not leave power peacefully or tries to impose his adviser on special operations, as next president of Uganda, we shall have a genocide in this country.
    The only way to avert the genocide is by westerners themselves chase Museveni out of power.

    in reply to: The Uganda dictator, Yoweri Museveni #98

    On 24th January 1971, the mutineering soldiers at Mengo barracks were plotting their next move after taking the military facility (and the entire capital city) from Milton Obote’s loyalist soldiers.

    For long the army had been divided between Obote’s tribes mates, and the rest of Uganda.

    The previous day, the threat had become real when Obote’s group disarmed the rest of the soldiers at Mengo barracks, and locked them up in an attempt to murder and/or kick out all the non-Obote officers.

    Being in fear for their lives, the imprisoned soldiers found their way out, broke into the armoury, fought back the whole night, and thwarted Obote’s plan.

    They now controlled the entire capital city.

    Gen. Idi Amin suddenly appeared at the Mengo barracks the next morning.

    While the soldiers had expected a heavy military response, instead here was the head of the country’s army coming alone in his military jeep to listen to them.

    This eased the tension and made the soldiers comfortable approaching him and talking to him.

    As the Army commander, Gen. Amin had come seeking to understand what exactly caused the revolt. He wanted to assess the damage first hand, hear their grievances, and try to resolve the situation.

    The discussion started off quite cordially. But the mood suddenly shifted when the topic changed to what the military code of conduct prescribed for mutineering soldiers.

    Through the years, Amin would constantly narrate to us what happened next. He apparently also told Africa Report editor Anthony Hughes 4 years after the actual incident while being interviewed during the Kampala OAU summit: “I was held at gun point and forced to become the President.”

    The revolting soldiers told him that if he refused, they would shoot him on the spot.

    They had started the revolt to save themselves from Obote’s officers. But they then suddenly realized that they had to go all the way and take over the government from Obote himself, or else they would face a serious backlash, possibly the military court martial and the death sentence, if/when Obote returned from his trip abroad.

    All they now needed was a capable, popular leader at the presidency.

    Gen. Amin, as Army Commander, and the only senior officer they could trust, perfectly fitted the bill.

    On 25th January, the day after the gunpoint incident, Staff Sergent Aswa, the leader of the mutineering soldiers, read an announcement on radio Uganda which ended saying:

    “We the soldiers of the Uganda Armed Forces have taken over the government. We have also appointed as president our fellow soldier General Idi Amin Dada.”

    The BBC reported cheering crowds in the streets of Kampala immediately after the radio broadcast.

    “The people of Uganda are celebrating the demise of President Milton Obote’s government”, the report said.

    In a 2012 article for the Telegraph newspaper (UK) Sir Peter Allen, Former Senior Judicial Officer who served in Uganda from 1955 to 1987, also wrote:

    “In 1971, while President Obote was in Singapore attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference, a group of soldiers, led by Sergeant-Major Aswa, announced on the radio that they had overthrown the government. This was because they were dissatisfied with Obote who was making life miserable for them. They then asked Amin to take over as President.”

    How Milton Obote was brought back again 8 years later after Amin, reveals the exotic ignorance, disorientation, and total disconnect that the so called “liberation forces” and their Tanzanian backers had with the Ugandan people.

    And the monumental intellectual gymnastics to legitimize lies and their ideological confusion, continues to this day.

    Locally, these are people who profess eloquently during public speeches, yet the mental backwardness in their real lives is quite fantastic.

    But from 1966, there was no way Milton Obote could genuinely win any popularity or beauty contest in Uganda.

    The peoples dissatisfaction had started back then when Obote overthrew the sitting President Edward Muteesa, abolished all Kingdoms and all traditional leaders across the country, unilaterally banned all political parties, jailed all political opponents, changed the constitution, and summarily appointed himself president.

    He also started a nice sectarian government that sought to place only people from his tribe in all key government and army positions under a hillarious 50-year plan called “The Lango Master Plan” (see last link below).

    However, in 1971, Amin was not part of any coup d’etat, nor did he ever appoint himself president.

    Neither were the Israeli’s, or the British involved.

    Gen. Amin was under duress and forced to lead the new military government just before the soldiers publicly announced the takeover on state radio.

    The Israeli’s and the British came in to support and recognize the new government after it was declared to the public and the international community.

    All the other narratives about how Amin came to power are simply a result of wonderful political hysteria and first class media delirium.

    And for the record, one cannot claim to understand the true circumstances under which Amin governed Uganda unless one understands what exactly happened to him on 24th January 1971.

    By Hussein Lumumba Amin

    in reply to: The Uganda dictator, Yoweri Museveni #96

    David Muganzi was reportedly beaten and killed by Police crime presenters


    Police deployed heavily on the Mbarara Ntungamo road which was being blocked by angry residents

    Police yesterday Monday deployed heavily along the Mbarara- Ntungamo road which was blocked by angry relatives and neighbors of a murdered resident.

    30 year old David Muganzi late last week is said to have been beaten to death by police crime preventers during a night operation.

    The deceased was a resident of Nyakaguruka village, Rugando Sub County in Rwampara Mbarara district, but was selling charcoal in Kisenyi cell, Mbarara municipality.

    Last week on Tuesday, Muganzi was according to relatives, arrested by crime preventers at around 1: 00am while coming from a party in Kisenyi.

    The crime preventers attached to Mandela Police Post in Kakoba Division Mbarara reportedly asked for Shs 20,000 but he declined to give it to them.

    The then started beating him severely and left him unconscious.

    Muganzi was rushed to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital by good Samaritans, where he was found to have bled internally and had multiple wounds.
    David Muganzi was reportedly beaten and killed by Police crime presenters

    David Muganzi was reportedly beaten and killed by Police crime presenters

    According his cousin sister Priscilla Kyobutungi, he was operated and he remained unconscious until Saturday January 21st when he died.

    Kyobutungi says while recording statements at Mbarara Police station, she was ordered by a top police officer to state that Muganzi was knocked by a speeding motorcycle.

    She says however that she contacted the local Police Professional Standards Unit which in liaison with the hospital confirmed that the deceased was battered.

    Consequently, three crime preventers and two police officers were arrested and detained to assist in the investigations.

    The crime preventers were identified as Emily Tusiime, Fabregas Herbert, and Herbert Nuwamanya while the police officer were’t named.

    These were however released shortly afterwards and only Fabregas remains in detention.

    Meanwhile in protest, the relatives of the deceased refused to collect the body from the Mortuary, but police drove it and dumped at their home in Kinoni on Saturday evening.

    On departure, locals turned riotous and blocked the Mbarara-Ntungamo road which forced the police to unleash teargas to disperse them.

    Kyobutungi says Mbarara DPC Jaffar Magezi later sat with the family and asked them to go to Mbarara and pick Shs 1million to help with the funeral.

    The DPC also promised to clear the medical bills amounting to Shs. 2.8 million; but only left them with Shs. 300,000.

    Trouble however, resumed yesterday before the burial when the DPC refused to hand over the original postmortem report to the family, which prompted the locals to turn violent again and teargas resumed.

    This compelled Mbarara Resident District Commissioner Capt. Martha Asiimwe to intervene. She personally delivered the original copy of the postmortem and apologized before the locals about the incident.

    She also handed Shs. 1million to the family to help with the burial, which commenced late in the evening.

    David Muganzi, son to Eliab Mugisha left behind 4 children and 2 widows; Nice Katusime and Marion Ninsima.

    Capt. Martha promised the family that all those involved in the murder will the arrested and brought to book.

    in reply to: When Odonga Otto and Winnie Byanyima Fool Ugandans #95

    According to Edith Byanyima the sister in law to Dr Besigye, Akena had to be killed because Acholis had killed Kanyamunyus father in the 1970s! We now know how these guts will behave once in government! They will launch a genocide against all other tribes! MY VOTE NOT FOR BESIGYE AND WIFE!

    in reply to: When Odonga Otto and Winnie Byanyima Fool Ugandans #94

    The Akena story and murder has taken its toll on the small Ugandan community which some have felt that there is not enough justice for our brother Akena.

    The three suspects Matthew Kanyamunyu, his brother Joesph including his girlftriend Cynthia Munywangari were remanded to Luzira prison until December 6, 2016 by Grade One Magistrate, Noah Ssajjabi.

    Kanyamunyu, since last Saturday has been locked up and held on suspicion for the shotting of Akena, aged 32 years. Matthew claims he only tried to help Akena by taking him to hospital after he had been shot in the stomach.
    Matthew Kanyamunyu says he was only being a good Samaritan as if he is Jesus Christ himself by helping take Akena Norvik hospital located along Bombo road in Kampala.

    Matthew Kanyamunyu is the chief executive officer of Quantum Express Logistics who has been held on suspicion for shotting Akena.

    Akena Kenneth was a community development officer with a local non-governmental organization and was shot in the stomach later died on Sunday at Norvik Hospital. Kenneth was buried on Wednesday at Gang Diang in Kitgum Municipality.

    in reply to: When Odonga Otto and Winnie Byanyima Fool Ugandans #93

    Alice Ruhindi, Amama Mbabazi’s in-law went on a rampage and attacked Edith Byanyima over the Kanyamunyu shooting case that left many Ugandan’s including the victim’s family in anger.

    Edith is one of the Byanyima sisters who turned out at court to stand surety in the bail application for murder suspects Mathew and Joseph Kanyamunyu, as well Mathew’s girlfriend Cynthia Munwangari.

    During the court session, the judge refused to grant bail to the three suspects and there was also a boil of anger in the court room as family & friends of the late Kenneth Akena targeted Winnie Byanyima, wife to opposition leader Kizza Besigye.

    Kanyamunyu (Right) suspect in the murder of Kenneth Akena (Left)Kanyamunyu (Right) suspect in the murder of Kenneth Akena (Left)


    This story that has received a lot of media attention and has been gripped with tribalism and hate between two sides but things took a turn for the worse when Edith tBtanyima made it public, that Kanyumunyu family have suffered enough at the hands of Acholi and they’ll not allow a repeat of the past.

    This is what Alice had to say in response to Edith’s tribalistic comments;
    Edith, see there are no winners in this case. My suggestion to you is to tone it down. If you have had enough when your nephew is a murder suspect and you can still hold his hand, what do you think Akena’s family are going through?

    What if we reversed roles so that Akena was the one suspected to have shot Mathew your relative? Would you still say that you have had enough?

    It is tragic the way you guys come to social media to provoke people who are already on the edge? Is it pride? Arrogance or both?

    Take a low key, talk when absolutely necessary. Avoid emotional outbursts because they are not only damaging you guys, they are annoying the family & friends of Akena.

     
    Kanyamunyu (Right) suspect in the murder of Kenneth Akena (Left)
    Your sister Winnie made a big error of judgement. You may need to get better PR on your team.You are not my friend & I do not wish to be among your friends.
    You say I am a hater of your sister? That I am concerned about Winnie losing support in Acholi? Either you mad or on ganja or both.

    I neither know Winnie nor any of you girls. What I am certain of is that a young man called Akena was murdered & the suspects are 2 of your relatives.

    You do not win public opinion by displaying such level of ignorance, arrogance, impunity & lack of humility. If it was not for Dr Kizza Besigye, I would have never heard of you little Miss. what exactly do you do for a living?

    You are probably used to people who tell you lies & what you want to hear. The corrupt regime has made some of you grow wings. I have good news for you little lady. Keep it real & humble yourself. Show respect to the family of Akena. Manners do not cost a penny.

    Your sister losing support in Acholi? How does she lose support when she works for Oxfam & pays taxes to HM just like me? Support for what? Why would I care? Bambi!
    I feel pain on behalf of Akena’s family.

    Your concern is that your nephew is behind bars and cannot kiss & cuddle Cynthia as they demonstrated in court to our shock and horror.

    Your family is lucky Mathew is alive. Akena’s family is not as lucky. His mother will never see him again. Unlike you who the other day saw your nephew.

    Please carry yourself off Facebook for a while and stop upsetting people. Do not forget your poisonous tongue. You are definitely not a nice lady.

    in reply to: The Uganda dictator, Yoweri Museveni #85

    Most of these actors don’t appear to grasp the dynamics surrounding the execution of Akena. ..They have no clue how Akena related to the situation that culminated into his execution. ..They don’t breath in and out to decipher the role of Akena and Odonga Otto and Kanyamunyu in the diversion. ..Most depend on hear say and to burst. ..ask Bichachi. ..We hit the ground and observed a complex operation of cover up. ..I have not seen these good for nothing intellectuals demand from police the whereabouts of the actual scene of crime. .? Why should Winnie Byanyima be denied standing surety for any Ugandan….whether relative or not. .? And why would a husband in Besigye order Winnie the wife not to stand surety for anyone because you have reactionaries in Otto and the likes. .? If Otto assaulted Winnie I would have supported Besigye in killing him. .. who is sure whether Akena was executed because he was an Acholi? Who is sure that who ever killed Akena did so as a Muhima and if indeed the executioner was a Muhima. ..is Otto the embodiment of the Acholi people, culture, history and heritage? Who is Otto in the Acholi civilisation? Does Otto know his values and self?
    Otto is what he is because of Janet Museveni courtesy of Odida of the Australian Foundation. Otto is assaulting Winnie Byanyima to present his invoice to Janet Museveni. ..Now this Gills of Chimpanzee the outfit for Muhoozi Special Forces does his thing again and assaults Edith Byanyima.
    All the Bahiima lose when the murder of Akena is viewed as a revenge operation for the role Acholi officers played in the killings of the 1980. You can’t even be sure if these weren’t NRA covert operations. …aishi. ..
    Can Otto account for his dealings with Kanyamunyu… In the photo below you see a satisfied Otto as opposed to the Acholi people dying of hunger. ..If Otto had been shot while with Kanyamunyu then. ..who wouldn’t have believed Kanyamunyu shot him. ..omururu. .. of course I wouldn’t have believed Kanyamunyu was Otto ‘ s buddy to deliver him to hospital. … Not every woman is a political actor to appreciate implications of some statements. What was your motivation in interviewing her? So you are cresting ground for murdering Bahiima as justification to kill Acholi people the way you set up the stage in the Rwenzori region. Can’t you get satisfied with blood? Not all of us are foolish. One day the whole game of the execution of Akena will come to light.

    in reply to: The Uganda dictator, Yoweri Museveni #84

    The aunt to the Kanyamunyu brothers, who are facing charges of murder of Kenneth Akena, again failed to show up at police for questioning.

    Ms Edith Byanyima was summoned on Monday for questioning and later records a statement over allegations of promoting sectarianism and incitement of violence. However she could not make it due to “other commitments”, suggesting that she reports on Tuesday at 10:00am, only not to turn up again.

    Ms Byanyima declined to say anything when contacted to explain whether she intended to report to police later or she was decided to remain defiant.

    “I have nothing to say, I insist, I will say nothing,” she said on phone.

    Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Emilian Kayima says they (police) will keep waiting for her to turn up and later make a decision.

    “There is still time, we shall wait for her to come. May be if she fails to come, we shall communicate our next step,” he said.

    Ms Edith Byanyima is alleged to have made sectarian statements in an interview with a local online media accusing people of a certain tribe of being behind the death of the father of Joseph and Matthew Kanyamunyu. 

    According to the Penal Code Act, a person who makes or utters any statement which is likely to promote, in any other way, “feelings of ill will or hostility among or against, any group or body of persons on account of religion, tribe or ethnic or regional origin commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years”

    in reply to: The Uganda dictator, Yoweri Museveni #83

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    Right from the start, it was evident to Omusinga Charles Wesley Mumbere that the State were no ready to let him walk free. This came to pass a few hours later when police re-arrested him after being granted bail by the Jinja High Court on Friday evening.

    At exactly 3pm, Justice Eva Luswata arrived in court and read her ruling on the bail application that took over 40 minutes.

    “The application has been accepted, ” Luswata said, also putting travel restrictions on Mumbere as one of the measures to avoid resumption of violence in the Rwenzori region as had been highlighted by the state prosecutors.


    “You will not be allowed to Kasese, Kabarole and Bundibugyo districts. You will only be allowed in Kampala, Jinja and Wakiso districts.”

    According to the judge, the Rwenzururu king was allowed to apply for a new passport after informing the Jinja Chief Magistrate. Mumbere had earlier told court that all his documents including the diplomatic passport were destroyed during the November raid on his palace.

    Adamant

    Usually, the norm is that on being granted freedom, the suspect would happily leave the dock to join his friends and relatives in jubilation, but this was not the case with Mumbere.

    As his queen Agnes Ithungu, mother Christine Nyamukama Mukiranya and other subjects including Kasese MPs reached out to him to celebrate his release, Mumbere remained silent.

    He was on several occasions seen trying to peep through the window as he watched policemen gather around court.

    Mumbere boards his brother Christopher Kibanzanga’s car to leave court
    Efforts to have him leave the dock by his lawyers and other subjects proved futile.

    “I fear they might arrest me, “he said before spending over an hour in the dock.

    It was after his team of lawyers led by Caleb Alaka convinced him to sign the bail form together with his 6 sureties that he agreed to leave the courtroom.

    “Your Majesty, you are now a free man and I hand you over to the Queen (Agnes Ithungu),”Alaka said.
    He was then led to the court cells by prison warders for signing prison documents.

    He was then set free and majestically moved out of the court cells with his queen waving to their subjects. This happiness would however be cut short.

    Meanwhile, for the lawyers and Kasese legislators, they anticipated something was wrong.

    Leader of Opposition, Winnie Kiiza was quick to warn government not to do any ‘nasty’ thing by re-arresting the Omusinga.

    Prisons officers watching the rearrest of Mumbere
    “This case has made government naked and they should not make themselves more naked by trying to re-arrest him,” Kiiza told journalists.

    For lawyer Sam Muyizzi, this was something similar to the infamous ‘Black Mamba’ re-arrest of opposition strongman Dr. Kizza Besigye.

    “At first we thought it was simply beefing up security to protect him but we have realized it is something else,” Muyizzi told journalists.

    Mumbere together with his queen Ithungu would later accept to sit into his brother and agriculture state minister Christopher Kibanzanga’s car ready to be driven out of court premises.

    Outside court premises was a waiting black police van and another patrol vehicle as they kept an eye at what was going on inside the court.

    A few meters to the court exit, the convoy that included Kiiza, stopped and Mumbere ordered the driver not to move anywhere.

    “It is not safe moving out of court.  I will stay here even if it means spending 2 weeks. I know they want to arrest me but they will only do so if they have a warrant, “Mumbere said.

    Later, there was a visible disagreement between Omusinga and his brother Kibanzanga as the latter tried to convince the king to accept to move out.

    After almost 2 hours, Mumbere agreed to drive out of the court premises, only to be intercepted by the Kiira region Deputy RPC Onesmus Mwesigwa.

    He asked the Rwenzururu to open the door, spoke to him briefly and was arrested.

    Police would later bundle him into the waiting van and drive to an unknown destination.

    Fresh Charges

    The police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi later confirmed they had arrested Omusinga and detained him at an unnamed police station in Jinja.

    “It is in connection with fresh charges. They range from murder to terrorism,” Kaweesi said.

    He said that the fresh charges are specific for Omusinga committed in the Rwenzori region.

    “We found out that people were   murdered and acts of terrorism and Mumbere is individually connected to those crimes.”

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