{"id":38995,"date":"2022-10-20T18:42:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls"},"modified":"2022-10-20T19:11:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:11:35","slug":"nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls","title":{"rendered":"NUP returns home more stranded girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The total number of Ugandans that the National Unity Platform (NUP) party has returned from the United Arab Emirates under its campaign has risen to 42 after receiving another batch yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming 12 repatriated Ugandans at NUP headquarters in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, the party spokesperson, Mr Joel Ssenyonyi, asked the government to avoid politicising the campaign, saying Ugandans in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) should enjoy equal rights and opportunities just like any other citizen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not just look on as Ugandans are suffering from the UAE, this is everyone\u2019s responsibility and instead of criticising the campaign, we can come together to ensure that our brothers and sisters are returned home,\u201d Mr Ssenyonyi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is absurd that the government is looking at the campaign from a political angle. That is why the girls that arrived on Tuesday were kidnapped at the airport and interrogated about their relationship with NUP and its leaders,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the party president, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, tweeted that 10 of the 15 girls who returned were kidnapped by unidentified authorities and kept in custody for more than seven hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of our efforts to repatriate Ugandans stuck in detention abroad, 15 Ugandans landed at Entebbe today at 10:30 am. They were singled out by operatives who are still holding them seven hours later. The whole intention is of course to frustrate this effort,\u201d Bobi Wine tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NUP secretary general, Mr Lewis Lubongoya, the campaign will also be extended to all Africans as a sign of Pan-Africanism.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the repatriated girls told Daily Monitor that they were questioned about their relationship with NUP and its leadership. \u201cWe arrived at the airport yesterday (Tuesday) and we were kidnapped by operatives who asked us to explain our relationship with NUP, they confiscated our phones and told us to reveal the contacts we have with Bobi Wine,\u201d one of the girls said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were later taken in a drone to the taxi park and we were ordered to board our respective homes on condition that we should never go to NUP headquarters or to Mr Kyagulanyi\u2019s home in Magere,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Bobi Wine says Dubai music show blocked, blames authorities in Uganda<\/p>\n<p>What I went through in Dubai detention &#8211; Bobi<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The total number of Ugandans that the National Unity Platform (NUP) party has returned from the United Arab Emirates under its campaign has risen to 42 after receiving another batch yesterday. Welcoming 12 repatriated Ugandans at NUP headquarters in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, the party spokesperson, Mr Joel Ssenyonyi, asked the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-38995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NUP returns home more stranded girls - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The total number of Ugandans that the National Unity Platform (NUP) party has returned from the United Arab Emirates und ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NUP returns home more stranded girls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The total number of Ugandans that the National Unity Platform (NUP) party has returned from the United Arab Emirates und ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-20T18:42:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-20T19:11:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_11-63519d5448379.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NUP returns home more stranded girls\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-20T18:42:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-20T19:11:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls\"},\"wordCount\":398,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_11-63519d5448379.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nup-returns-home-more-stranded-girls\",\"name\":\"NUP returns home more stranded girls - 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