Lawyer Miguna Miguna commiserated with beleaguered Uganda politician Robert Kyagulanyi AKA Bobi Wine who is reported to have suffered serious injuries at the hands of military personnel.
Miguna’s support comes after he faced a similar situation last year for swearing in opposition leader Raila Odinga as the People’s President and was deported in February of this year.
In response to a tweet by Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye, Miguna expressed his support while urging the country’s freedom fighters facing torture and murder to not give up and avoid pressures.
He urged President Yoweri Museveni to release the politician adding that revolutionary ideas were conceived and written in far-flung places but found traction in continents, countries, and peoples that they had not physically encountered.
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"Mr. Museveni, you claimed to be a freedom fighter when you went to the forest in 1981 with a ragtag of boys. However, since 1986, you have brutalized Ugandans and turned the country into a personal fiefdom. Ugandans aren't your cows. #FreeBobiWine and his comrades," he tweeted on Saturday.
Bobi Wine, has been in different military camps for over a week following skirmishes in Arua after he was campaigning for an opposition leader.
President Yoweri Museveni accused him of stoning his official vehicle during the Arua campaigns which had Bobi’s driver shot and killed by the police who were shooting to disperse the crowds.
On Thursday he was charged with being in possession of illegal firearms in a military court in a move that saw the United States and the United Kingdom call for restraint and fair trial for Bobi Wine and other persons arrested with him.
The Kyadondo East MP who has been held incommunicado for half of the period was produced before his family, a team of Human Rights Commission officials and two of his lawyers at Makindye Barracks on Thursday in Kampala.
“He is in a very bad shape, the situation is dire and worrying. I managed to see him. They said they could only allow two lawyers and family members hence I was with his wife Barbie and brother Eddie Yawe.
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“We were taken to a particular room and he was carried in by soldiers. He was in tears, could not talk or stand, his face was swollen and he tried to explain to us with a lot of difficulties," lawyer Erias Lukwago explained.
Kampala has witnessed regions of unrest and demos following his arrest from supporters who demand the MP’s immediate release.
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