Security forces have moved up to 89 supporters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) who were arrested last Friday as Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, alias Bobi Wine campaigned in Mbarara district to an unknown location.
The group which had been detained at Mbarara CPS while handcuffed the whole time as seen in videos that have since gone viral during a Saturday visit to the Police Station by NUP Secretary General Lewis Rubongoya and party spokesperson Joel Senyonyi were moved on Monday in heavily guarded police trucks.
According to the NUP Party leaders, more than 100 supporters were arrested when security forces ambushed and intercepted Bobi Wine’s convoy when it was en route to Bwizibwera in Mbarara where he had been scheduled to address his second campaign rally on Friday.
On Monday, the party’s Western Uganda legal head Joshua Tumukunde, while addressing press noted that they had been denied access to the supporters since their detention.
The arrest, detention and transfer of the NUP supporters to an unknown location in Mbarara city has left bitter sweet memories for party members when joint security forces arrested upto 90 NUP supporters who had accompanied Bobi Wine on his campaign trail in Kalangala in the 2021 campaigns.
Police is yet to issue a statement on the transfers of the suspects to un known location.
