Uganda Deports Defense Lawyer As Former Mayor’s Bail Pushed To June 23
By Black Star News Photos: YouTube Screenshots Former Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago’s bail application has been postponed and, according to the presiding Chief Magistrate in Kampala, she will deliver the ruling electronically through the Court Information Management System within 24 hours; implying the afternoon of June 23. The Chief Magistrate explained that the parked-to-capacity court could not allow her peruse the voluminous documents presented by prosecution and the accused’s defense team. Lukwago, meanwhile, has been returned to Luzira Prison in Kampala. Capital city Kampala’s recently sworn-out Lord Mayor was abducted from his home in Kampala on June 15 by plain-clothes and heavily armed men in military combat commonly associated with the elite Special Forces Command (SFC) of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces. SFC are in-charge of Gen. Yoweri Museveni’s security detail. Museveni’s son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who heads the military and also serves as his father’s Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Operations, would later post acknowledging on X (formerly twitter) of holding the senior lawyer in a “basement”. He also posted Lukwago’s pictures undergoing torture. It was a sigh of relief, however, on June 17 when the soldiers dumped Lukwago at a police station in Kampala from where he was swiftly produced before the Chief Magistrate who charged him with misprision of treason and subsequently remanded to prison until June 22. Lukwago has been a lead counsel in opposition doyen Dr. Kizza Besigye’s treason case which has been on-running since his abduction from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi on November 16, 2024. Besigye, together with is aide, Hajji Obeid Lutale Kamulegeya, had flown to the Kenyan capital to attend the book launch of that country’s former justice minister-turned-opposition leader, lawyer Martha Karua. Karua would join Besigye’s defense team in the treason case. However, in a dramatic twist of events on June 22 when Karua had her passport stamped at Uganda’s Entebbe International airport, according to a statement from the Uganda Law Society’s Vice President, Anthony Asiimwe, she was blocked from entering Uganda and awaited deportation back to her home country, Kenya. Karua had come to attend the hearing charges against Lukwago and his bail application. “It is difficult to understand why one member of a defense team should be admitted while another is turned away,” Law Society of Kenya President, Charles Kanjama, who had traveled with Karua to attend Lukwago’s case, posted on X, June 22. It is understood Karua was pulled aside and told there were orders from the “above” not to allow her into the country. More revelations about Lukwago’s abduction and mistreatment incommunicado continue filtering through. UNAIDS Executive Director and Besigye’s wife, Winnie Byanyima, writes, thus; “Humiliation. Forcing @EriasLukwago into a Museveni T-shirt. Shaving his head. Abducting and torturing him. These were calculated, cowardly and reprehensive acts aimed at crushing the spirit of an opposition leader and silencing him. Their purpose was to intimidate Hon Erias Lukwago and deter him from defending another opposition leader, @Kizzabesigye1.” Lukwago is the interim president of the newly-cobbled People’s Front for Freedom. “That such gross violations of our Constitution are associated with none other than the Chief of Defence Forces @mkainerugaba is shocking. A man entrusted with weapons and State power to defend Ugandans is instead using them to humiliate, terrorise and persecute citizens…Ugandans will never accept this abuse of power. We will resist and we will end this terror,” Byanyima is optimistic. Byanyima’s reaction follows June 19 shocking revelations attributed to the main opposition National Unity Platform’s secretary general David Lewis Rubongoya that Lukwago, while incommunicado before being dumped at the police station, was forced to wear Museveni’s T-Shirt with the inscription: “Protecting the gains”, Museveni’s January polls’ campaign slogan.
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Former Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago’s bail application has been postponed and, according to the presiding Chief Magistrate in Kampala, she will deliver the ruling electronically through the Court Information Management System within 24 hours; implying the afternoon of June 23. The Chief Magistrate explained that the parked-to-capacity court could not allow her peruse the voluminous documents presented by prosecution and the accused’s defense team.
Lukwago, meanwhile, has been returned to Luzira Prison in Kampala. Capital city Kampala’s recently sworn-out Lord Mayor was abducted from his home in Kampala on June 15 by plain-clothes and heavily armed men in military combat commonly associated with the elite Special Forces Command (SFC) of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces. SFC are in-charge of Gen. Yoweri Museveni’s security detail.
Museveni’s son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who heads the military and also serves as his father’s Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Operations, would later post acknowledging on X (formerly twitter) of holding the senior lawyer in a “basement”. He also posted Lukwago’s pictures undergoing torture. It was a sigh of relief, however, on June 17 when the soldiers dumped Lukwago at a police station in Kampala from where he was swiftly produced before the Chief Magistrate who charged him with misprision of treason and subsequently remanded to prison until June 22. Lukwago has been a lead counsel in opposition doyen Dr. Kizza Besigye’s treason case which has been on-running since his abduction from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi on November 16, 2024.
Besigye, together with is aide, Hajji Obeid Lutale Kamulegeya, had flown to the Kenyan capital to attend the book launch of that country’s former justice minister-turned-opposition leader, lawyer Martha Karua. Karua would join Besigye’s defense team in the treason case.
However, in a dramatic twist of events on June 22 when Karua had her passport stamped at Uganda’s Entebbe International airport, according to a statement from the Uganda Law Society’s Vice President, Anthony Asiimwe, she was blocked from entering Uganda and awaited deportation back to her home country, Kenya. Karua had come to attend the hearing charges against Lukwago and his bail application. “It is difficult to understand why one member of a defense team should be admitted while another is turned away,” Law Society of Kenya President, Charles Kanjama, who had traveled with Karua to attend Lukwago’s case, posted on X, June 22. It is understood Karua was pulled aside and told there were orders from the “above” not to allow her into the country.
More revelations about Lukwago’s abduction and mistreatment incommunicado continue filtering through.
UNAIDS Executive Director and Besigye’s wife, Winnie Byanyima, writes, thus; “Humiliation. Forcing @EriasLukwago into a Museveni T-shirt. Shaving his head. Abducting and torturing him. These were calculated, cowardly and reprehensive acts aimed at crushing the spirit of an opposition leader and silencing him. Their purpose was to intimidate Hon Erias Lukwago and deter him from defending another opposition leader, @Kizzabesigye1.” Lukwago is the interim president of the newly-cobbled People’s Front for Freedom.
“That such gross violations of our Constitution are associated with none other than the Chief of Defence Forces @mkainerugaba is shocking. A man entrusted with weapons and State power to defend Ugandans is instead using them to humiliate, terrorise and persecute citizens…Ugandans will never accept this abuse of power. We will resist and we will end this terror,” Byanyima is optimistic.
Byanyima’s reaction follows June 19 shocking revelations attributed to the main opposition National Unity Platform’s secretary general David Lewis Rubongoya that Lukwago, while incommunicado before being dumped at the police station, was forced to wear Museveni’s T-Shirt with the inscription: “Protecting the gains”, Museveni’s January polls’ campaign slogan.
