Jailed NUP supporters expected in Court today

Prosecution alleges that between November 2020 and May 2021, the suspects were in possession of explosives (bombs), a monopoly of the armed forces.

They were arrested from different places in Jinja, Mbale, Kireka, Nakulabye , Nateete, and Kampala Central.

Trouble for the accused started when the Uganda Police Force accused them of plotting to carry out petrol bomb attacks targeting government vehicles and buildings in various places in the country ahead of President Museveni’s swearing-in ceremony in May 2021.

On October 11, 2022, the Court Martial chairperson, Brig Robert Freeman Mugabe, dismissed the detainees’ bail application which had been filed nine months prior.

The Leader of Opposition, Mathias Mpuuga, recently brought up the issue of missing NUP supporters and those jailed without trial in Parliament.

Earlier, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, was supposed to meet with the opposition, NUP specifically, to discuss the matter and forge a way forward, this however didn’t happen following Tayebwa’s no show on the day of meeting.

Tayebwa apologised to Mpuuga during plenary and promised he would meet with the opposition and find a way of how to resolve on the matter.

“I would like to apologise to my brother Mpuuga for not showing on that day. I got sick and couldn’t make it. But now that the issue has come up again, I promise we will meet and find a way forward,” he said during plenary.