Minah Nalule
The two ninjas attached to the Red Top Brigade Movement who put parliament in a panic mode when they jumped to the floor of the house and attacked MPs have been locked up on three charges of criminal trespass, malicious damage and interrupting the parliamentary procedure.
Charles Mutasa Kafeero who calls himself the redtop commander and Dafala Senjako spent the night behind police cells and will appear before the courts for trial.
On Wednesday the two men accessed parliament using all the right procedures and settled at the stranger’s gallery watching the parliamentary proceedings before abruptly jumping onto the floor of parliament like ninjas in action at about 4 pm.
With leaflets in their hands reading “A letter to Africa and Uganda, stop cropping out citizens,” protesting Yoweri Museveni’s regime and Corruption the men started punching MPs randomly while dropping the leaflets to the floor.
According to Patrick Onyango the Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson, the two are being held at two different police posts, one at Central Police Station CPS and Jinja road police stations where they have both recorded their statements pending a court trial.
The Seargent at arms at parliament who escorted the suspects out of parliament has also made his statement at police.
Onyango says Police also has exhibits in their custody like damaged parliamentary properties, placards, leaflets among others all pertaining to evidence of the crime to be used during the course of the trial.
Onyango has however emphasized that there was no breach of parliamentary security as the two men passed through the right procedure to enter the house as visitors.
Onyango notes that there is no cause for alarm that people’s lives are in danger as of this incident saying parliament is the most guarded place in the City and security is guaranteed with officers operating under the watchful eye of the Inspector General of Police IGP.
According to the Parliaments Powers and Privileges Act, anyone who creates or joins in any disturbance, which interrupts or is likely to interrupt the proceedings of Parliament or a committee while Parliament or the committee is sitting; is liable on conviction before a court to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years or a fine not exceeding four thousand Shillings or to such fine and imprisonment.
