Their vehicles were recently shattered during the recent demonstrations, but the police and the government in general doesn’t want opposition leaders to walk on foot or use public means while visiting markets, courts, places of workshop… Some of the opposition leaders like Kenneth Paul Kakande (the spokesperson of the Democratic Party) have no cars because they were stolen, damaged in demonstrations or seized by the police. Kakande says that the government has impoverished them.

They don’t have the money to repair their cars but whenever they move on foot the police arrests them and whenever they drive their cars the police arrests them that mechanically dangerous conditioned cars.

For example in Kampala today, the police arrested FDC women league leader Ingrid Turinawe and Kampala woman MP Nagayi Sempala as they were walking to Court in a procession from their homes. The opposition leader Col. Kiiza Besigye describes the charges police charges opposition leaders as politically motivated arguing that the Government does not have evidence to sustain them in court.

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Nabakooba says that the suspects would be paraded before journalists after investigations. She says that the suspects were arrested after a tip off from one of the concerned residents.

Nabakooba also urged the members of the public with information about the activities of iron bar men and thugs to forward it to police for action. She says that the police will keep such information as a highly confidential information because it is aware of its sensitivity.

Hundreds of people in Kampala and its suburbs have been attacked by thugs in a period of less than six months and their property worth millions of shillings stolen.

By Stephen Kamoga

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 The police accused Besigye, Nabilah, Mpuuga and Lukwago of re-launching ‘walk to work’ protests. The spokesman of the police, Asuman Mugyenyi says that these politicians were arrested because they wanted to attend a rally in Katwe, aKampalasuburb where they were scheduled to re-launch the protests.

Mugyenyi says that Besigye and group had not notified the police about the rally. Besigye, Lukwago and group have been driven by the police to unknown destination. The police first poured tear gas into the crowds of their supporters before executing the arrest.

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