A supporter of NUP who wore superman attire yesterday was brutally arrested by JAT and detained at Wandegeya police station.
While inside Wamdegeya cells, the NUP supporter was subjected to torture by policemen at Wandegeya who mocked him and asked him to jump like superman. He was forced to drink urine of some yet to be named policeman who even spit at his face as he ranted and cursed that ‘NUP can never lead Uganda.’
The NUP supporter is currently at Kanyanya court alongside other some other party members who were brutalized by JAT.
Uganda will be going to another general election early next year, the electoral commission has already issued out a road map and has already done several activities like gazetting electoral areas and updating the national voter’s register which was done last month.
This month too, Kawempe North voters will be going to a highly contested by-election replacing Muhammad Ssegirinya Mr. Update who died in January. The race has attracted 10 candidates, five from political parties NUP, NRM, PPP, DP and FDC while the other 5 are independent candidates of whom 2 were denied NUP ticket, one denied NRM ticket, another denied UPC ticket and the other one standing in the shadow of Katonga based PFF.
Ahead of the by-election, security organs are on the spot of brutalizing political opponents especially NUP’s Luyimbaazi and his supporters as the NRM candidate who is also a daughter to the party’s first National Chairperson Alhajji Moses Kigongo goes about her campaigns uninterrupted and even does processions in busy roads.
On the nomination day, officers from the Joint Anti Terrorism Task Force (JAT) brutalized NUP supporters and were condemned. They were back to work yesterday alongside police and army as NUP took their campaign caravan to Kawempe Muslim primary school play ground.
These beat up people, fired teargas and bullets and some leaders and supporters were detained. As a follow up to what transpired yesterday, National Unity Platform General Secretary was at Wandegeya police station to check on the detained supporters and leaders.
Media ran for this story and an NTV journalist Steven Mbidde faced the wrath of angry police cops who wrestled him down on the group as he came through to interview NUP’s secretary general David Lewis Rubongoya.
A top Tv journalist Miracle Ibra is still admitted at Nsambya hospital nursing face wounds meted on him by the no nonsense JAT cops who beat him in the face. Several leaders have including Arch Bishop Paul who condemned the actions of security cops and urged Museveni’s government to abolish elections, rule by decree other than organizing elections and beat people like animals.
Yesterday as violence was reigning on NUP supporters, another NTV journalist was assaulted and told to delete footage he had recorded as the hooded JAT operatives unleashed havoc.
