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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Top leaders of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and at least two clergymen were allegedly detained by police on Monday, following a crackdown in areas around the head offices of the opposition party in Kampala.<\/b><\/p>\n

Starting Monday, police and military officials seized NUP head offices in Kamwokya, a day after party leader Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) announced plans to hold prayers and an address to counter national Independence Day celebrations in Northern Uganda.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are here to pray for abductees and those killed over politics as well as peace and freedom in our country,\u201d said Joy Mission International Ministries Bishop William Tomusange before he was bundled onto a waiting police vehicle.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Kyagulanyi claimed that NUP\u2019s lawmaker spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi, party secretary general David Lewis Rubongoya and another cleric, Pastor Andrew Muwanguzi had also been detained in a mid-morning security operation.<\/p>\n

A reporter at the scene said nearly 20 people, including Rubongoya, Ssenyonyi and Bishop Tomusange, were held at Kira Road Police Station but was not certain on the whereabouts of Pastor Muwanguzi and other allegedly held NUP supporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have categorized us as fools. I\u2019ve been told to come back to police at around 4pm but I heard plans of taking them to Naggalama police,\u201d legislator Betty Nambooze told reporters.<\/p>\n

About six female NUP leaders led by Nambooze also demanded the release of the party supporters as they lashed at Ugandan authorities for the \u201cclampdown on their freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can they arrest people for praying yet they say we are celebrating independence today? They should grant them bond by the end of today or else they will see what we can do,\u201d they jointly said, flanked by opposition Members of Parliament.<\/p>\n

Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango said “they conducted preventive arrests, and the detainees will be released with no case(s) preferred against them.”<\/p>\n

But in Kitgum District, Uganda\u2019s 61st independence anniversary celebrations carried on calmly with President Museveni presiding the event, even as Kyagulanyi addressed a few journalists from his residence in Magere.<\/p>\n

Kyagulanyi hinted that NUP was due to resume its nationwide mobilization on Wednesday, despite a police ban issued mid-September, 2023.<\/p>\n

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