Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 17 2021
Journalists display injuries they sustained after security operatives attacked them while covering Bobi Wine on February 17, 2021
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At least 10 journalists were left nursing injuries after military personnel attached to the Uganda People s Defence Forces (UPDF) assaulted them while covering Mr Kyagulanyi who was accompanied by relatives of Ugandans who have been abducted by security operatives during and after elections.
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Police and UPDF on Wednesday accused National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine of holding unlawful procession as they justified attack on journalists who were covering the former presidential candidate as he delivered his petition to the United Nation Human Rights offices in Kampala.
UPDF, take hard look at 10-Point Programme
Wednesday February 17 2021
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Our view:
For our leaders, this year’s national commemoration of Luwum Day, at State House Entebbe, can renew their solemn promise to secure lives of Ugandans and their property.
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The current human rights breaches of abductions, torture and illegal detention put to shame the founding mission of the UPDF.
At inception, the National Resistance Army (NRA), the forerunner of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), was founded on two golden principles of securing democracy, and security of all persons and their properties in Uganda. The NRA/M then rode to power on these promises of a political programme that pledged a better future for the country.
Uganda’s musician turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has threatened to withdraw a poll petition from the country’s Supreme Court citing bias and frustration .
Uganda’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Wine’s additional 120 affidavits claiming the documents were filed late after February 14 deadline.
Bobi Wine later addressed his supporters at his party office in Kampala threatening to withdraw the case if such frustrations persist.
“We have been collecting evidence and more is still coming in but the Supreme Court has rejected 250 affidavits we filed yesterday (February 15) much as hearing of the petition hasn t started. We want to put the Supreme Court on notice that if this persists, we are not going to be part of that mockery, the next step is to take the matter to the public court,” Mr. Kyagulanyi said on Tuesday.
Scores of people went missing in pre-election violence, covert security operations in East African country Hamza Kyeyune | 16.02.2021
KAMPALA, Uganda
Ugandan opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, Monday released a list of at least 243 people he claims were abducted by the government.
On Twitter, Wine said his team has hundreds of other names that are still being verified before they can be published.
The runup to the disputed January 2021 general election was marked by a crackdown on government critics and reports of covert security operations, in which scores of people went missing after armed groups reportedly picked them up.
Daily Monitor
Monday February 15 2021
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A senior presidential aide has asked the army for unmarked guns in order to conduct “covert operations” despite President Museveni’s June 2018 directive that all guns be finger-printed to stem abuse or use by criminals.
Maj Kakooza Mutale, the special presidential assistant for political affairs, made the demand - whose details this newspaper reveals for the first time today - in an August 10, 2019, letter to the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen David Muhoozi.
This was 14 months after Mr Museveni ordered engraving of all firearms in the hands of security forces so that cartridges retrieved from crime scenes can, through ballistic analysis, be matched to the bullet discharge gun and user.