Worried wives and relatives to detained National Unity Platform-NUP members arrested during campaigns in Kalangala have gone on bended knees to be allowed access to their jailed hubbies.
Close to 10 gloomy women gathered at the NUP head offices to hold a presser demanding the that government produces their hubbies in court instead of detaining them in undisclosed torture houses.
The distressed women claim their people have never been produced in court neither are their locations are known to them and the last time they were seen in public was on television, bruised and injured. a thing they say is criminal.
They have however all declined to reveal the identities of these missing people.
”Today is the 11th of January, none of us have set our eyes on these people, we don’t know what kind of state they are in, neither do our lawyers know, so you can imagine someone has been detained since last year on the 30th and we don’t know where they are, so the pressure of the relatives of these people is on us , Daphne Kyakwizile, leader of the NUP women wing cried out on behalf of others.
She claims they went to Makindye Military barracks and Masaka Police stations where some of these suspects are still detained but were denied access by security.
More than 100 people were arrested in Dec 2021 in Kalangala District where National Unity Platform-NUP presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine had gone to the campaign.
96 suspects were detained at Masaka Central Police Station,48 of these were charged with causing incitement to violence, participating in acts likely to lead to the spread of Covid-19, but later granted bail in court.
Others still detained in jail are Edward Ssebuwufu alias Eddie Mutwe, Kyagulanyi’s bodyguard alongside three other NUP campaign coordinators; Stanley Kafuko, Lukeman Kampala and Hassan Katumba.
