The Regional Police Spokesperson, Aswa-Gulu Ongom David Mudong has revealed that the force has arrested 41 people over brutalising National Unity Platform (NUP) supporters during Bobi Wine’s campaign in Gulu City early this month.
According to Mudong, the suspects who assaulted the NUP supporters and looted people’s property on December 6th, were arrested after a review of the CCTV footage recorded on that day.
“Through the analysis of CCTV footage and other intelligence networks, the Police conducted a well-coordinated, intelligence-led operation on the night of 18th December 2025 in Gulu City and its surrounding suburbs” he said.
Mudong noted that the group leader Aleng Fatuma who boasted of leading the group on the assault of NUP members was also arrested during the operation.
“Among those arrested is Aleng Fatuma, who is alleged to have led the mobilization of the suspected criminal gangs using various media platforms, including TikTok, among others. Operations are ongoing to ensure that all accomplices are identified and apprehended” he said.
The attacks that shocked the country left a senior three student of Excel High School Mukono, Joshua Leon Otim dead after he succumbed to injuries he suffered following an attack by National Resistance Movement (NRM) Tshirt wearing gangs.
According to Bobi Wine, Otim succumbed to the extensive injuries he sustained when police and military officers aided by gangs in plain clothes holding machetes and sticks attacked and flogged him together with his supporters as he attempted to campaign in Gulu city.
However the Uganda Police in a statement said the narrative that Otim died due to a scuffle involving security agencies and Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi are false and baseless and he was rather killed by four boys who are still at large that suspected him to be a thief.
