Sheikh Kamulegeya Clarifies On His Arrest
FORMER Mufti Sheikh Obeid Kamulegeya yesterday said he was disturbed by Defence Minister Amama Mbabazi’s statement to Parliament last month that he had never been arrested by security agents.
By Mariam Nalunkuma
and Hamis Kaheru
FORMER Mufti Sheikh Obeid Kamulegeya yesterday said he was disturbed by Defence Minister Amama Mbabazi’s statement to Parliament last month that he had never been arrested by security agents.
Kamulegeya was appearing before the parliamentary committee on defence and internal affairs to react to reports that he had been arrested for alleged links with Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). He asked to testify in camera.
“Kamulegeya said he was disturbed by the minister’s statement which he says was a misrepresentation of facts,†committee chairman Simon Mayende (Samia-Bugwe South) said after the meeting.
“He thinks the minister should have got the truth first before coming to Parliament. He said it was disturbing for the minister to say that if security agents arrested him then they did not know who they were arresting,†Mayende said.
Mayende quoted Kamulegeya as further saying if the minister had told the truth the elderly sheikh would have left the issue to die out. “But eventually he realised that the minister had been told lies,†he said.
Kamulegeya confirmed before the press that he was the author of a March 23 statement earlier presented to Parliament by Kawempe North MP Latif Ssebbagala. Speaker Edward Sekandi asked the committee to investigate the issue after Ssebbagala’s statement.
“Sheikh Kamulegeya said he was not tortured or taken to a police cell or ‘safe house’ but he was psychologically inconvenienced considering that he had just returned from South Africa for heart treatment,†Mayende said.
Kamulegeya said he was treated in a demeaning manner yet he was a prominent religious leader.
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and Hamis Kaheru
FORMER Mufti Sheikh Obeid Kamulegeya yesterday said he was disturbed by Defence Minister Amama Mbabazi’s statement to Parliament last month that he had never been arrested by security agents.
Kamulegeya was appearing before the parliamentary committee on defence and internal affairs to react to reports that he had been arrested for alleged links with Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). He asked to testify in camera.
“Kamulegeya said he was disturbed by the minister’s statement which he says was a misrepresentation of facts,†committee chairman Simon Mayende (Samia-Bugwe South) said after the meeting.
“He thinks the minister should have got the truth first before coming to Parliament. He said it was disturbing for the minister to say that if security agents arrested him then they did not know who they were arresting,†Mayende said.
Mayende quoted Kamulegeya as further saying if the minister had told the truth the elderly sheikh would have left the issue to die out. “But eventually he realised that the minister had been told lies,†he said.
Kamulegeya confirmed before the press that he was the author of a March 23 statement earlier presented to Parliament by Kawempe North MP Latif Ssebbagala. Speaker Edward Sekandi asked the committee to investigate the issue after Ssebbagala’s statement.
“Sheikh Kamulegeya said he was not tortured or taken to a police cell or ‘safe house’ but he was psychologically inconvenienced considering that he had just returned from South Africa for heart treatment,†Mayende said.
Kamulegeya said he was treated in a demeaning manner yet he was a prominent religious leader.
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