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Reported by<\/strong>
\nFaridah N Kulumba<\/strong><\/p>\n

Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The National Unity Platform party (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobie Wine, resolves to petition Uganda\u2019s\u00a0 Ministry of Defense and Chief of Defense Forces, over continued detention of his party members and supporters.<\/p>\n

Kyagulanyi says over 243 people have been detained, but many more have been arrested and held without due process of a law.<\/p>\n

He said this while addressing journalists at the party headquarter in Kampala Bobie said that he expects the Ministry of Defense and the Chief of Defense Forces to have his people released unconditionally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to deliver a letter, demanding for our people to the Chief of Defense Forces General David Muhoozi and to the Ministry of Defense. We want to call on them to release our people. General Museveni came out and said his the military that has been abducting them, precisely the SFC,\u201d said Bobie.<\/p>\n

Kyagulanyi added that they will continue demanding for freedom of his supporters, most of whom he says were kidnapped and tortured by security operatives and vowed to continue protesting peacefully because it is within the law.<\/p>\n

Bobie Wine\u2019s Supporters\u00a0 arrest
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Bobi wine with one if his supporter James Mubiru who was abducted on Thursday last week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to NUP leader Mr Kyagulanyi, hundreds of his supporters started missing after they were arrested during and after 14 January 2021 elections, where president Museveni was declared as a winner.<\/p>\n

Bobie Wine estimated that over 3000 members of his party were taken by authority, claiming that they were abducted by plain-clothed members of Uganda\u2019s defense forces mostly at night, who picked them from their homes.<\/p>\n

Tension is rising among NUP party members and some families, over the alleged forced disappearance of dissidents across the country\u00a0 following the month of 2021 general elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pain of parents whose children have been abducted by the Museveni dictatorship for simply supporting me and NUP, these young people are tortured and some murdered, we want the world to stand with Uganda in these very dark days,\u201d Bobie twitted.<\/p>\n

The journey to deliver the petition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kyagulanyion on his way to deliver the petition police and army intercepted him and forcefully returned him\u00a0 home, saying that they were not aware of his plans to take the petition to the army headquarters in Mbuya.<\/p>\n

The police spokesman Kampala Metropolitan area Patric Onyango said that they picked Kyagulanyi\u00a0 and drove back home as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonourable Kyagulanyi had planned his protest as earlier he announced. And today he was going to Mbuya Army headquarters, and from there he had planned\u00a0 other series of protests within the city centre, so we got him and took him back to his home.\u201d said Onyango.<\/p>\n

While speaking to African Press\u00a0 Kyagulanyi\u2019s lawyer and member of parliament elect Muwada Nkunnyinji said that what\u00a0 Kyagulanyi was doing was within the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is with the law and we have the right to do so. Because what we are agitating for is total respect to the rule of law and restrain from arbitrary arrest of our people, because being a supporter of NUP isn\u2019t an offense and we insist so,\u201d said Nkunnyinji.<\/p>\n

Does the government of Uganda admit abduction acts?<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Museveni and his ministers weeks back admitted that hundreds of Ugandans are in military detention but say they will either force military tribunal or be released<\/p>\n

\u201cThe children who were arrested by the security forces, many of them have been talked to and given us a lot of information and we have helped them to go back to their families,\u201d Museven said.<\/p>\n

Last week Human Rights Watch, called for an end to what it called \u201congoing abductions by suspected state agents and cease the unlawful detention without trial of opposition supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reported by Faridah N Kulumba Africa-Press – Uganda. The National Unity Platform party (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobie Wine, resolves to petition Uganda\u2019s\u00a0 Ministry of Defense and Chief of Defense Forces, over continued detention of his party members and supporters. Kyagulanyi says over 243 people have been detained, but many more have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,7,12,258],"tags":[240,248,269,287,234],"class_list":["post-6421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","category-head-lines","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-bobi-wine","tag-nup","tag-robert-kyagulanyi-ssentamu","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"\n"Release my supporters." 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