{"id":4369,"date":"2021-02-15T18:54:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2021-02-15T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:14:58","slug":"security-quiet-on-abductees-despite-museveni-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/security-quiet-on-abductees-despite-museveni-order","title":{"rendered":"Security quiet on abductees despite Museveni order"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>KAMPALA<\/b><\/p>\n

– By Sunday evening, security officials had not released a list of people they kidnapped in the last months despite President Museveni\u2019s directive on Saturday.<\/p>\n

In his address to the nation, the President confirmed that the people who had been reportedly kidnapped were indeed in custody of security agencies.<\/p>\n

He ordered the security agencies, especially the army, to produce the list of those arrested and make their names known to the public.However, sources, who talked to Daily Monitor on anonymity, said Mr Museveni\u2019s directive had put security agencies in a delicate situation.<\/p>\n

The sources said the agencies were reluctant to produce the list because some of the suspects were tortured and are in poor health.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecurity cannot show the identities of some suspects because they were tortured by a security commando unit in some of the detention centres. If they are revealed, their families or relatives will seek to see them. But security agencies cannot show the suspects in that bad condition. Government will be embarrassed and condemned,\u201d the source said.The source added that the commando unit has been torturing the detainees without producing them in court.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine some suspects were arrested one or two months ago, and some are aged below 18. But they cannot even try them in a unit disciplinary court at Mbuya [barracks]. CMI (Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence) keeps them while torturing them,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n

The source said the security agencies might delay to produce the list as they wait for the health of those tortured to improve.<\/p>\n

Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso, the UPDF spokesperson, declined to comment on the torture claims.<\/p>\n

\u201c…But as the President directed that the list should be made public, you wait on Tuesday [tomorrow] at Uganda Media Centre. The Minister for Security and Minister for Internal Affairs shall avail the update on the list and the status of suspects,\u201d Brig Byekwaso said.<\/p>\n

Museveni says<\/b><\/p>\n

Addressing the country on the situation on Saturday, Mr Museveni said due to the November 18 and 19, 2020 protests that were sparked by the arrest of National Unity Platform Opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, security deployed in Kampala Metropolitan Area and other parts of the country to ensure peace during the January 14 polls.<\/p>\n

\u201cTowards elections, we had new schemes of criminality. The culture of rioting\u2026attack buildings, attack security personnel. Because of that misbehaviour and plans to stop the election, because these law breakers were planning openly that they will not allow elections to take place, the security forces decided to deploy heavily just before elections,\u201d Mr Museveni said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the case of Kampala, we also brought the commando unit which had distinguished itself in fighting in Somalia and which had destroyed ADF. We deployed it in Kampala area. This group quickly defeated the terrorists who had started operating here. They killed a few who tried to attack them and arrested scores of those lawbreakers in Makerere, Kivulu, Nakivubo channel, some from Mpigi, Kyotera, Mukono,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The President said the missing people who were kidnapped had actually been arrested by CMI or by the commando units.Mr Museveni said the first time to use CMI was after the 2018 crimes in which several women in Entebbe, Nansana, Zzaana were murdered and the killings of sheikhs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe killing of [Andrew Felix] Kawesi, former inspector general of police, prosecutor Joan Kagezi, [Maj Mohammed] Kiggundu, [Ibrahim] Abiriga, the killing of women in Nansana, Entebbe, Zzaana and the leaflets which were threatening people, saying how they will be attacked with jambiya (machetes), the killing of [Muhammad] Kirumira, attacking factories.<\/p>\n

The aim of that campaign was to scare away investment\u2026Police had been infiltrated by the criminals. It was during that time that I involved CMI in investigating the killings of the women starting with Entebbe and Zzaana. That was the first time to involve soldiers in what otherwise would have been police work,\u201d Mr Museveni said.<\/p>\n

Mr Museveni said 177 people were arrested by CMI and have either been released from detention or granted bail by courts while another category of 65 individuals is still in jail, and under investigation.<\/p>\n

He said he had the list of the arrested people and read out names such as Adam Senyonjo, Wasswa Kasozi, Davis Lwetute and Bonny Kiseka before declaring that the lists be made public.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll their names are here. Both the 177 and 65 and the security people should make this list available to the public so that this talk of disappearance is answered,\u201d Mr Museveni said.The President also said another group of 59 people were arrested by commandos, who he said were brought in from Somalia to support the country\u2019s security forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ones arrested by commandos were 59 (18 from Kampala, 11 from Mpigi, 17 from Kyotera and five from Nakasongola. These 59 were separate from the 17 who had been arrested from Mukono,\u201d Mr Museveni said.<\/p>\n

Here, he read out names such as Junior Ainebyona, Yasiin Mpagi, Daudi Niwabiine, Jerode Okwore, David Ayebare, Richard Sonko and Diz Matovu.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the 59 are helping the police to trace the others. The talk of disappearance should be ignored because it can\u2019t happen under NRM. Even if the mistake is made, it would be addressed and answered. We never cover up. There is nothing which we do and hide. Every Ugandan under NRM will be accounted for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

During the same address, Mr Museveni also castigated the European Union (EU) Parliament for debating to impose travel sanctions on some Ugandan officials last week over alleged gross human rights abuses during last month\u2019s general elections. \u201cI read in the newspapers about the EU Parliament sanctioning some Ugandans from travelling. For anybody to think that Africans are dying to go to Europe is something that shows lack of seriousness,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

Museveni who were arrested in Mukono but released, according to Museveni<\/p>\n

Kamira AugustineNahiru MuhammedKyaligonza AdolfNkoyoyo JosephMukasa JumaKibelu JuliusMuggnga KhalimKhaiza SamuelMale MusaSsenkubunge IsmaKiwanuka sulaimanNtulume StephenWasswa JessyKanywakabenge FredTwinamatsiko OnesmusSonde Hillary Lawrence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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