UPC official charged with sedition
Jan 29, 2010
THE head of the women’s desk in the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Josephine Babirye, has been charged with sedition. She allegedly printed placards condemning the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Liberation Day.
By Eddie Ssejjoba
and Edward Anyoli
THE head of the women’s desk in the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Josephine Babirye, has been charged with sedition. She allegedly printed placards condemning the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Liberation Day.
Babirye, 35, a resident of Mengo, a Kampala suburb, was on Wednesday arrested at Uganda House, the party headquarters on Kampala Road, by detectives led by Charles Kananura, the Kampala Metropolitan political commissar.
On Thursday she appeared before Buganda Road Grade One Magistrate Francis Kobusheshe who read the charge of sedition.
The prosecution stated that on Wednesday, at Uganda House, Babirye printed and published seditious publications against the Government of Uganda.
According to the charge sheet, Babirye had three placards, one stated that the NRM day was a ‘cursed day for Ugandans since there is almost nothing to show for a span of 24 years of NRM rule’. She also referred to the day as a terrorist/rebels’ day.
Babirye said she was prompted into writing the placards after watching Bukedde TV on January 26 where NRM officials were praising themselves for liberating Ugandans. She said she wanted to express her resentment.
and Edward Anyoli
THE head of the women’s desk in the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Josephine Babirye, has been charged with sedition. She allegedly printed placards condemning the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Liberation Day.
Babirye, 35, a resident of Mengo, a Kampala suburb, was on Wednesday arrested at Uganda House, the party headquarters on Kampala Road, by detectives led by Charles Kananura, the Kampala Metropolitan political commissar.
On Thursday she appeared before Buganda Road Grade One Magistrate Francis Kobusheshe who read the charge of sedition.
The prosecution stated that on Wednesday, at Uganda House, Babirye printed and published seditious publications against the Government of Uganda.
According to the charge sheet, Babirye had three placards, one stated that the NRM day was a ‘cursed day for Ugandans since there is almost nothing to show for a span of 24 years of NRM rule’. She also referred to the day as a terrorist/rebels’ day.
Babirye said she was prompted into writing the placards after watching Bukedde TV on January 26 where NRM officials were praising themselves for liberating Ugandans. She said she wanted to express her resentment.