By Editorial,
The Uganda Prisons Service has refuted claims that the National Resistance Movement MPs remanded to Luzira on corruption charges were recently secretly taken to State House to meet President Museveni.
Via his X platform, lawyer Nicholas Opiyo alleged that two NRM MPs had been whisked away from detention to meet Museveni at State House for reasons he said had been unclear.
However, Prisons spokesperson Frank Baine said in a yesterday statement that Opiyo’s claims were false and unfounded. Mr. Baine says the Prisons Act of 2006 Section 5(A) requires the service to ensure that all persons lawfully detained in prisons are detained safely, securely and humanely and are tried where necessary until lawfully released or released from prison. END