Fred Nyanzi aka Chairman Nyanzi lying down unconscious while the party deputy spokes person Mufumbiro Waiswa looking on.
National Unity Platform party(NUP) chief mobilizer Nyanzi Fred alias Chairman Nyanzi a brother to the party’s president Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) has been beaten to near comma by the armed security personnel in Kyenjojo District.
The party deputy spokesperson Mufumbira Waiswa who was also left injured, Nyanzi was in Kyenjojo together with other party members who went to meet the political party’s mobilization teams for Tooro Sub Region in Kyenjojo and later in other districts in the region.
As the NUP leaders had just started their meeting, Police and Army launched an attack on them beating up Chairman Nyanzi to comma, Mufumbiro Waiswa, and others escaped with minor injured.
‘’Our mobilization meeting in Kyenjojo (for Tooro Sub-region) was disrupted by the police and military. Several comrades including Chairman Nyanzi severely wounded. Many others were arrested! The criminal regime is completely shameless!.” NUP Secretary General David Lewis Rubongoya said.
Several bullets were fired to dispatch the crowd that had started to gather in the area and a one Musinguzi Ibrahim was shot in the leg.
“Musinguzi Ibrahim is our local comrade severely injured by the military. We’re with him also at Kyenjojo Main Hospital, but they have NOTHING. We have to buy everything including painkillers from local pharmacies! We have to take him for and pay for an x-ray outside. UGANDA!” He added.
Through his socials, the NUP boss showed his disappointment in the way the current regime treats the party leaders.
“Today, the cowardly regime yet again launched a violent attack on our leaders in Western Uganda! The police and military attacked our leaders as they went to induct and launch our Mobilization Teams for Tooro Sub-region in Kyenjojo District,” Bobi Wine.
Meanwhile, Nyanzi was released on bond after being charged with inciting violence & unlawful assembly.
The source told this website that Nyanzi is currently hospitalized in a certain private hospital in Kampala while Musinguzi Ibrahim was taken for an X-ray. The Other NUP leader, Julian Kabagambe- Dep Sec Mobilization, Western region spent the night in police cells.
By George Bukenya