KAMPALA-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: National Unity Platform (NUP) secretary general Lewis Rubongoya has been arrested.
Rubongoya was arrested from Wandegeya with his driver Agaba Gordon.
He has been on wanted list with police claiming his car committed a crime during the recently concluded by-election in Omoro.
“They were briefly arrested at Wandegeya Police station and later the Secretary General was released and he immediately proceeded to attend Hon Ssegirinya and Sewanyana’s court. However Gordon was later driven to Nateete Police Station for reasons best known to the police” NUP stalwart Nubian Li said in a Facebook post.
After court David Lewis Rubongoya passed by Natete Police Station to follow up and surprisingly he has also also been re-arrested, Rubongoya said.
NUP principal Bobi Wine his supporters won’t now to intimidation.
“I have learned about the arrest of our Secretary General David Lewis Rubongoya and his driver on some bogus charges of threatening violence in the recently concluded by election of Omoro.
For me it’s not surprising. The Museveni regime, like all dictatorships, thinks it will weaken and subdue us by intimidation and harassment. Hang in there comrades, it will be well.”
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