Author held over Museveni booklets
Sep 21, 2011
A man accused of writing a book critical of President Yoweri Museveni has been arrested in Kampala.
By Hebert Ssempogo
A man accused of writing a book critical of President Yoweri Museveni has been arrested in Kampala.
A joint team of detectives including those from the Police’s Rapid Response Unit, picked Vincent Nzaramba Ssebakwiye at the weekend, according to Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba.
Nzaramba was picked from Kyebando, a Kampala suburb and detained at the unit’s head office in Kireka, a city suburb, as the probe into the booklet started.
“Detectives are analysing the book’s content,†Nabakooba said.
Titled People Power-Battle the Mighty, the 67-page book has a picture of President Museveni on its front cover.
The media crimes unit boss, Simon Kuteesa, said the book did not name the publisher but had his website link.
Kuteesa said a number of copies had been circulated by the time Nzaramba was arrested.
According to his Facebook profile, Nzaramba studied at Makerere University in 2009 and speaks English, Luganda and Kinyarwanda.
The website link is written as his address and he cites “Museveni must resign†under his activities and interests.
On one of the book’ pages, he writes a brief profile of himself, according to which he was born in “the slums†of Mulago in Kampala.
A man accused of writing a book critical of President Yoweri Museveni has been arrested in Kampala.
A joint team of detectives including those from the Police’s Rapid Response Unit, picked Vincent Nzaramba Ssebakwiye at the weekend, according to Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba.
Nzaramba was picked from Kyebando, a Kampala suburb and detained at the unit’s head office in Kireka, a city suburb, as the probe into the booklet started.
“Detectives are analysing the book’s content,†Nabakooba said.
Titled People Power-Battle the Mighty, the 67-page book has a picture of President Museveni on its front cover.
The media crimes unit boss, Simon Kuteesa, said the book did not name the publisher but had his website link.
Kuteesa said a number of copies had been circulated by the time Nzaramba was arrested.
According to his Facebook profile, Nzaramba studied at Makerere University in 2009 and speaks English, Luganda and Kinyarwanda.
The website link is written as his address and he cites “Museveni must resign†under his activities and interests.
On one of the book’ pages, he writes a brief profile of himself, according to which he was born in “the slums†of Mulago in Kampala.