The Uganda Police Force has preferred charges of assault against eight people who were arrested on Wednesday protesting the decision to remand former Presidential Candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye to Luzira Prison.
The eight charged today are: Nasurdin Basalirwa, Godfrey Sembusi, Zalika Mutesi and Joan Nabatanzi among others.
The group was arrested within Buganda Road Court premises on Wednesday shortly after court presided over by Grade One Magistrate Asuman Muhumuza had remanded Besigye to June 17th 2022 on charges of inciting violence.
Besigye had been remanded together with former Rubaga South Constituency Parliamentary candidate, Samuel Lubega Mukaku, for staging a protest in Kikuubo, a Kampala City shopping business center where he had reportedly gone addressing traders about the need to protest because of the skyrocketing prices of commodities.
As a result, there were dozens of supporters in court who started hurling insults at the Magistrate for his decision to remand Besigye without entertaining his bail application as requested by his lawyers Samuel Muyizzi Mulindwa and Erias Lukwago. Some of the supporters also had started fighting one another after clashing on whether to hurl insults at the judicial officer or to stop.
In the aftermath, security arrested eight people from the scene where the supporters of Besigye had become chaotic. END
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