After more than two weeks after she was taken to an unknown destination by armed gunmen, the National Unity Platform (NUP) Deputy President for Western Uganda, Ms. Jolly Jacklyn Tukamushaba’s daughter has broken silence over her mother’s arrest by UPDF soldiers.
Patricia Ashaba, Tukamushaba’s first born who was with her at the time of her disappearance narrated how UPDF soldiers both in uniform and plain clothes broke into their room at Concord Hotel in Muhanga Town Council, Rukiga District on January 14th, pointed guns at them before taking her mother away.
“The soldiers broke into the hotel room we are in through the balcony and after they opened the door for other soldiers to come in. They ordered us to kneel down, took our phones, asked what we were doing and she told them we were writing appointment letters. One of the soldiers told the others to carry everything that was in the room” she narrated,
Ashaba who was appearing in an interview alongside her siblings and other relatives noted that following that, the soldiers ordered her mother to go with them.
“Some soldiers were in front of her others behind her, all pointing guns at her. We went to the balcony and saw them putting her into a white drone and took a video. Since then we don’t know where she is and we don’t know where to start searching from” Ashaba further narrated,
Ashaba noted that the white Toyota Hiace ‘Drone’ her mother was driven away to an unknown destination had registration number UAF 599N.
NUP recently filed a Habeas Corpus before the High Court seeking the government to produce Tukamushaba who has now been missing for weeks dead or alive.
