Byanyima summoned over Hutu rebel talk
THE CID has opened a new sedition case against Mbarara Municipality MP Winnie Byanyima over repeating remarks that Uganda is training Interahamwe militia to fight the Rwanda government.
By Jude Etyang
THE CID has opened a new sedition case against Mbarara Municipality MP Winnie Byanyima over repeating remarks that Uganda is training Interahamwe militia to fight the Rwanda government.
Byanyima who is in South Africa for a women's’ conference, has been summoned to the CID headquarters in Kampala for questioning by CID head, Edison Mbiringi. The summons were issued on March 4 by Mbiringi and required Byanyima to report on March 7.
Byanyima’s lawyer, Erias Lukwago, in response wrote to the Police requesting that another date be fixed because she is expected back in the country on April 10.
Lukwago said Byanyima received the summons on March 10 but said the summons had been over taken by events. He requested the summons be fixed for mid- April.
Byanyima was last year charged with sedition but was acquitted after the state dropped the charges. The charges arose out of statements which Byanyima reportedly made on the Kenya Television Network that Uganda was arming Interahamwe.
The new case arose from a February 18 press statement Byanyima allegedly issued that ISO director Henry Tumukunde had told a meeting of local leaders in western Uganda that the Government was ready to arm forces opposed to the Rwanda government.
THE CID has opened a new sedition case against Mbarara Municipality MP Winnie Byanyima over repeating remarks that Uganda is training Interahamwe militia to fight the Rwanda government.
Byanyima who is in South Africa for a women's’ conference, has been summoned to the CID headquarters in Kampala for questioning by CID head, Edison Mbiringi. The summons were issued on March 4 by Mbiringi and required Byanyima to report on March 7.
Byanyima’s lawyer, Erias Lukwago, in response wrote to the Police requesting that another date be fixed because she is expected back in the country on April 10.
Lukwago said Byanyima received the summons on March 10 but said the summons had been over taken by events. He requested the summons be fixed for mid- April.
Byanyima was last year charged with sedition but was acquitted after the state dropped the charges. The charges arose out of statements which Byanyima reportedly made on the Kenya Television Network that Uganda was arming Interahamwe.
The new case arose from a February 18 press statement Byanyima allegedly issued that ISO director Henry Tumukunde had told a meeting of local leaders in western Uganda that the Government was ready to arm forces opposed to the Rwanda government.