The speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has revealed that the Inter-Parliamentary Union Standing Committee on Human Rights for Parliamentarians is set to send a team to Uganda to collect more evidence on the alleged torture and detention of Members of Parliament.
The development comes after Uganda today came top in the reports of human rights violations of MPs for the first time in Parliament’s history, according to Kadaga who is Geneva for the 139th IPU conference.
Kadaga says the team will also meet President Yoweri Museveni and the Attorney General about the safety of legislators after it emerged that MPs Francis Zaake (Mityana Municipality), Robert Kyagulanyi (Kyadondo East) and others who were arrested in Arua on August 13, 2018, were tortured in custody.
“The team will come to Uganda and will be present in Court when the MPs are tried with treason. They will also meet the president and Attorney General on the alleged torture and other human rights violations of members,” the Speaker said.
