Otunnu gets fresh Police summons

Apr 22, 2010

UGANDA People's Congress party boss and 2011 presidential aspirant Olara Otunnu was yesterday served with fresh summons at his party’s headquarters on Uganda House in Kampala on charges of promoting sectarianism.

By Moses Mulondo

UGANDA People's Congress party boss and 2011 presidential aspirant Olara Otunnu was yesterday served with fresh summons at his party’s headquarters on Uganda House in Kampala on charges of promoting sectarianism.

The CID officers were led by Ibrahim Luggya, the head of the Nkrumah Road Police post.

Otunnu’s assistants, on seeing the Police officers, called an impromptu press conference, keeping the officers waiting for a long time.

The aides said Otunnu was attending a meeting. However, when the Police officers were finally invited to deliver the summons at about 5:00pm, Otunnu was addressing a press conference.
Immediately they appeared, Otunnu asked Luggya, who was in civilian clothes, to identify himself.

The summons, which Otunnu read to the journalists, requires him to appear before the CID today. The summons said further investigations had established Otunnu made sectarian remarks on Voice of Lango radio station in Lira on April 12, that President Yoweri Museveni had deliberately prolonged the northern insurgency.

In response, however, Otunnu said he will not comply with the order because it is “clear that President Museveni is using the CID as his political tool”.

He argued that the CID “is supposed to be independent” and he was ready to defend myself before the courts of law, not the CID, which he said Museveni had “compromised”.

It was the second time the Police summoned Otunnu in vain. On April 14, they served him the papers over charges of defaming Museveni.
He, however, defied the order to report to the CID.

Yesterday, he said he would produce evidence in court that instead Museveni is sectarian.

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