NUP trashes Minister Otafire
The leadership at the National Unity Platform (NUP) has dismissed claims by Internal Affairs Minister Kahinda Otafiire that they paraded accident victims as causalities of torture at the UN Human Rights Conference in Kenya last month.
During the Human rights accountability conference, the opposition leaders demanded justice for over 100 people allegedly shot dead by security officers during the 2020 campaigns.
Bobi wine claimed some of the victims had been castrated by security agents.
“In this room here, we have men that have been raped, men that have been sodomized by the regime. And very painfully, we cannot talk about such in our own home,” he said last month.
On Thursday while officiating at the opening of 420 housing units, Otafiire tasked the Criminal Intelligence Directorate (CID) headed by Brig Gen Chris Damulira to investigate opposition party leaders including NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, Alliance for National Transformation -ANT National Coordinator Mugishia Muntu and Forum for Democratic Change’s Dr. Kiiza Besigye among others.
NUP trashes Minister Otafire
Otafire stated that the group paraded was victims of Boda Boda crashes disguised as torture sufferers.
“How do you take people who fell from Boda bodas and take them to international police and claim they were torture victims? Tortured by police and CMI, no this is criminal. This is not politics; it has gone beyond the bounds of politics,” Otafiire said
He wants the opposition bigwigs charged in the courts of law for treason because of undermining the government.
“If you are in cahoots with foreign governments to undermine your government, are you praying to God or committing treason,” he added
But according to the NUP party spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi, some of the people paraded in Kenya were victims of hit and run on the road by security officers.
“There are some who were victims of accidents after being deliberately hit by a police or military truck and these are lucky to have survived with injuries, but there are those who died. For instance, Frank Ssenteza was hit by an army truck and died, Rita Nabukenya was also hit at the Nakawa lights by an army truck and she died.If Gen Otafire is looking for evidence , it is in the hands of people like Fred Enanga(police spokesperson),” he says
The NUP Secretary-General, Lewis Rubongoya has also trashed the allegations stating that some victims were injured by teargas and police have on several occasions issued statements on that.
“There were no victims of accidents. In any case, some of them are in the police reports. Like a young man from Makerere who was hit with a teargas canister. There’s no need for investigations and all of them are there, they should tell us who was a victim of accidents,” Rubongoya said.
