MP Nambooze whisked to Jinja Road Police Station

Jun 13, 2018

She was driven in her own vehicle by her hasband, Henry Bakireke, and was guarded in the same car by two female police officers.

IBRAHIM ABIRIGA MURDER INVESTIGATIONS

KAMPALA - Mukono Municipality MP Betty Nambooze has been taken to Jinja Road Police Station for interrogation over the murder of Arua Municipality MP Ibrahim Abiriga.

After a long time engagement with Mukono DPC Rogers Sseguya, Nambooze accepted to be taken for interrogation after the residents had started gathering around her home.

She was driven to Kampala in her own vehicle by her hasband, Henry Bakireke, and was guarded in the same car by two female police officers.

Nambooze was not allowed to talk to the media, as DPC Sseguya said that it was not a press conference.

Once at Jinja Road Police Station on a hot Wednesday late-morning, Nambooze was led into the offices for question.

Her lawyers followed, mobbed by journalists.

MP Lubega Sseggona and Nambooze's personal assistant Arthur Mugabi were seen talking to Kampala East RPC Michael Musane at the police station.

 

 

 

 

 

New Vision reporter Eddie Ssejjoba at Jinja Road Police Station:

"MP Betty Nambooze is currently held in one of the offices at Jinja Road Police Station, where she is seated with the Lord Mayor and MP Medard Lubega Sseggona. She peeped through the window and waved to journalists - with a simple smile.

Two armed policemen are currently stationed at the staircase leading to another on the first floor where Nambooze is held. It is said she was arrested this morning from her home in Mukono and brought to Jinja Road Police Station."

 

 

 

 

Nambooze said she was unhappy with the way the Police has twisted the investigations into the assassination of her fellow legislator Abiriga into a political scandal just to mess up opposition legislators like her.

Her supporters blamed the Police for treating their MP like a chiken thief, yet she is a person of high political profile, who would have handed herself to the Police if she had been summoned.

Meanwhile, at Jinja Road Police Station, the Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Winfred Kiiza, told reporters that Police did not follow THE right procedures in arresting Nambooze.

She claims Government knows the people who killed Abiriga.

The Arua MP was assassinated along with his brother Saidi Congo, a UPDF soldier, by unknown gunmen Friday evening while driving towards his home in Kawanda, Wakiso district.

 

Security tight at Jinja Road

New Vision reporter Eddie Ssejjoba at Jinja Road Police Station said security was ramped up at the Police station.

He said Nambooze was being prepared to be transfered to a destination not known.

"Allan Mawanda, the councillor Kavule village, where Nambooze lives, says she was scheduled to return to India for medical checkup since she underwent surgery there. He says the MP has been complaining that she is still unwell."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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