The arrested are supporters of FDC who were carrying black flags and allegedly mourning as the country marks her golden jubilee.

The group had paraded at different spots in Mbarara town
Among the arrested is the FDC District Chairperson Stanley Katembeya and Mobilizer Timbyetaho John.

Police says that investigations are complete and the suspects will be charged with inciting violence and assaulting an officer on duty.

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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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