Gen. Muntu condemns Kyagulanyi's arrest

POLITICS|KYAGULANYI|MUNTU

The Alliance for National Transformation, (ANT) presidential candidate, Gen Mugisha Muntu, on Wednesday (November 18, 2020) condemned security agencies following the arrest of National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential aspirant Robert Kyagulanyi.

Muntu noted that the impunity with which security operatives are operating in the continued harassment and now the arrest of Kyagulanyi is leading this country closer towards a breaking point.

We join NUP and all fair-minded Ugandans in calling for his immediate release. Muntu also described the arrest as demeaning, reckless, and disrespectful.

"We condemn the acts of the regime of arresting one of the candidates for the Presidency. The act itself is reckless and also disrespectful, the manner in which the leader would be arrested. If a presidential candidate can be arrested in that manner, the population should ask itself what happens to people who are not in that elevation," Muntu stated.

He also observed that "if the regime can act in that manner in complacent disregard of the act itself being covered on TV, that shows you the level of recklessness and desperation which this regime is as of now,"

Kyagulanyi was arrested by police on Wednesday (November 18, 2020) morning as he was heading to Luuka district and accused of disrespecting guidelines and directives on processions and rallies issued by the Ministry of Health and the electoral commission. 

He was later driven to Nalufenya police station and charged with doing an act likely to spread Covid-19 infections disease.

Kyagulanyi's police charge sheet indicated that Kyagulanyi a male adult of 38 years, a Presidential aspirant and resident of Magere Village, Kasangati Town Council, Wakiso district and other at large on November 18, at around 11:00 am at Luuka Town district, knowingly or having reason to believe that it was likely to spread infectious disease mobilized and addressed a campaign rally of more than 100 people who were not respecting standard operating procedures of Electoral Commission and Ministry of health and act likely to spread infectious disease.