• Latest
  • Trending
  • All
  • News
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Science
  • World
  • Lifestyle
  • Tech
Samuel Busindi Masereka

Kasese NUP Registrar Sues Ex-CMI Director Gen Kandiho Over Torture

February 10, 2022
Investigation; Why hunger, poverty continues to devour Karamoja despite dozens of gov’t programmes

Investigation; Why hunger, poverty continues to devour Karamoja despite dozens of gov’t programmes

June 3, 2023
UBOS trains supervisors for pilot census, fire two staff

UBOS trains supervisors for pilot census, fire two staff

June 2, 2023
Elle Parle

Elle Parle women’s open hosts 3rd edition

June 2, 2023
Police FC qualifies for Uganda Cup final for the first time in their history

Police FC qualifies for Uganda Cup final for the first time in their history

June 2, 2023
child murders

Police arrest five over vandalism

June 2, 2023
Govt should translate PDM documents to local languages -report

Govt should translate PDM documents to local languages -report

June 2, 2023
Why speaker Among is  rooting for payment of village health teams

Why speaker Among is rooting for payment of village health teams

May 30, 2023
Butiki League match day 2 of season 3 attracts a huge crowd

Butiki League match day 2 of season 3 attracts a huge crowd

May 29, 2023
We need to include the male in reproductive health education -Kadaga

We need to include the male in reproductive health education -Kadaga

May 29, 2023
UTB launches the explore Northern Uganda campaign

UTB launches the explore Northern Uganda campaign

May 26, 2023
ADVERTISEMENT
News 24/7
  • Home
  • News
    • All
    • Business
    • Politics
    • Science
    • World
    UBOS trains supervisors for pilot census, fire two staff

    UBOS trains supervisors for pilot census, fire two staff

    Elle Parle

    Elle Parle women’s open hosts 3rd edition

    Police FC qualifies for Uganda Cup final for the first time in their history

    Police FC qualifies for Uganda Cup final for the first time in their history

    child murders

    Police arrest five over vandalism

    Govt should translate PDM documents to local languages -report

    Govt should translate PDM documents to local languages -report

    Why speaker Among is  rooting for payment of village health teams

    Why speaker Among is rooting for payment of village health teams

    We need to include the male in reproductive health education -Kadaga

    We need to include the male in reproductive health education -Kadaga

    UTB launches the explore Northern Uganda campaign

    UTB launches the explore Northern Uganda campaign

    Police station attackers have political motives – Enanga

    Police officer shoots self to death

    Museveni rallies Masaka farmers on building businesses for legacy

    Museveni rallies Masaka farmers on building businesses for legacy

    Trending Tags

    • Donald Trump
    • Future of News
    • Climate Change
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
    • Flat Earth
  • Entertainment
    • All
    • Gaming
    • Movie
    • Music
    • Sports
    Police FC qualifies for Uganda Cup final for the first time in their history

    Police FC qualifies for Uganda Cup final for the first time in their history

    20 years later, Newcastle United lands champions league glory

    20 years later, Newcastle United lands champions league glory

    Veteran Patrick Ochan vows to inspire Kigezi HomeBoyz FC to defend their Regional trophy

    Veteran Patrick Ochan vows to inspire Kigezi HomeBoyz FC to defend their Regional trophy

    Uganda Cranes to host Algeria in Cameroon

    Uganda Cranes to host Algeria in Cameroon

    What you missed at Butiki League season three day one

    What you missed at Butiki League season three day one

    Hundreds of runners at the 2023 Kabaka Birthday run (1)

    Thousands Throng Lubiri for the 10th Airtel – Kabaka Birthday Run

    10-man Express FC complete a double against BUL FC

    10-man Express FC complete a double against BUL FC

    Kataka fans injure 6 Adjumani FC players in melee

    Kataka fans injure 6 Adjumani FC players in melee

    Rogers Mato voted USPA Sportive/Assist personality for the month of March

    Rogers Mato voted USPA Sportive/Assist personality for the month of March

    Salim Jamal documentary: the goal keeper chronicles how he has managed to achieve

    Salim Jamal documentary: the goal keeper chronicles how he has managed to achieve

  • Watch Now
  • Sports
  • Shot Stories
  • Fact Checker
No Result
View All Result
News 24/7
No Result
View All Result
Home court

Kasese NUP Registrar Sues Ex-CMI Director Gen Kandiho Over Torture

URN.I was beaten to a point of becoming numb, had serious convulsions and later woke up finding myself sleeping in a solitary confinement with blood coming from my mouth, nose and genitals."

Dorothy Nalumansi by Dorothy Nalumansi
February 10, 2022
in court, crime
Reading Time: 4 mins read
0
Samuel Busindi Masereka

Samuel Masereka the Kasese NUP Registrar who was tortured reportedly in CMI Custody

ADVERTISEMENT

The Registrar for the National Unity Platform political party in Kasese District  Samuel Busindi Masereka is seeking to hold the former Director of Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence Abel Kandiho personally liable for torture inflicted on him while in custody. 

ADVERTISEMENT

Masereka, whose rotting feet’s photos have circulated on social media has petitioned the Civil Division of the High Court in Kampala, contends that he was arrested on January 7th 2022 in Kasese Town by three CMI personnel who confiscated his phone and barred him from informing his family members about what had happened.

He narrates that immediately after his arrest, a pistol was pointed in his mouth and ordered to remain silent as he was dragged into a drone car and whisked to Kasese Central Police Station and then to Kilembe Police Post where he spent a night.

ADVERTISEMENT

He says when he asked the police officers to help him call his relatives and inform them about his arrest, they told him that they were under instructions that he doesn’t talk to anybody.

According to Masereka, the following day, men dressed in UPDF uniform picked him up together with a police officer he only identifies as Bwambale and took him to his home for a search which lasted for about three hours, and his property including a laptop, National ID, flash disk, SIM card and all NUP documents used for Mobilization were confiscated as exhibits.

Masereka notes that he was later handcuffed and driven to Kampala in the company of three UPDF operatives who hooded him and proceeded to an unknown destination.

Masereka says upon reaching that unknown destination which he later discovered from other detainees that it was CMI in Mbuya, he was undressed and taken while naked to the reception to have his particulars recorded. 

He adds that on January 9th 222  while his arms at that time had spent three days handcuffed and his face hooded, he was led for interrogation before four officers who allegedly battered him with cables, flogged and waterboarded him after he had given answers to questions related to the funding and next move for NUP that the investigators found unsatisfactory.

According to Masereka, this was repeated every day until he was released on January 26th 2022 from the Special Investigations Department of Police in Kireka where CMI officers reportedly took him before being granted police bond on allegations of involving himself in subversive activities.

“One of the interrogators poured very hot water on my legs and feet out of which I developed grievous bodily injuries and wounds that are still visible and fresh to this date which had made my movement hard”, Masereka’s affidavit reads.

He Adds: “I was beaten to a point of becoming numb, had serious convulsions and later woke up finding myself sleeping in a solitary confinement with blood coming from my mouth, nose and genitals.”

Through his lawyers of PACE Advocates led by George Musisi, Masereka contends that the actions of the respondents were an abuse of their human rights obligations to have respect for human dignity and protection from cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and punishment.

Masereka while on his clutches addressed the media while his two feet oozed a mixture of pus with blood. His back which he displayed to journalists had a crisscrossed pattern of scars but which at least appeared to be healing steadily.

Masereka’s lawyer George Musisi says that he was driven and dropped in Mityana District and sadistically ordered to fend for himself and find how to reach Kasese and that his family was ignorant of his whereabouts and had reported a case of a missing person.

Musisi notes that his client was later admitted to St Francis Nsambya Hospital and he incurred huge bills to put his life back together and to date, he still goes to the hospital to dress the wounds and he is worried about his life will never be the same again.

Masereka now wants the court to declare that the 19 days he spent in CMI custody without any charges levied against him were a violation of his constitutional rights and also the torture and suffering inflicted on him are all unconstitutional. He also wants compensation for special and general damages.

In 2019, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni assented to the Human Rights Enforcement Bill, thereby putting in place a law that prohibits torture of suspects and imposing individual liabilities on a person found to have tortured a suspect or violated his constitutional rights while in State custody.

Masereka has also proceeded under this same Act to sue the former CMI Director Maj General Abel Kandiho to be held personally liable for torture by his officers whom he was supervising.

Kandiho is sued with the Attorney General but they are yet to be summoned to defend themselves over this case.

In 2021, the Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake was awarded more than 70 million shillings by Lady Justice Esta Nambayo for torture inflicted on him in state custody.

for more click here

ShareTweetSend
Previous Post

17-Year-Old Student Stabbed to Death by Boyfriend for Aborting

Next Post

Police Detain MP Joyce Bagala over Anti-Torture Campaign T-Shirts

Dorothy Nalumansi

Dorothy Nalumansi

Next Post
torture in the country

Police Detain MP Joyce Bagala over Anti-Torture Campaign T-Shirts

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
Why more Ugandans in diaspora want policy on migrant workers reviewed

UAE stops Issuance of 30-day Visas to Ugandans

October 24, 2022
Kampala Massage

“I have live sex with 18 clients a day” – Kampala massage therapist

October 2, 2022

Muhoozi Promotion is Actually a demotion – Solomon Serwanjja

October 5, 2022
Immaculate Kibekyenga Corruption unit

Anti Corruption unit saves Girl from Saudi Organ Harvest racket

5
4.8 Billion Collected in Traffic Police Operations

4.8 Billion Collected in Traffic Police Operations

3
Doctor on ebola frontline speaks to us annonymously

“We are denied PPE, threatened and intimidated” – Exclusive Interview with a doctor on the Ebola Frontline

3
Investigation; Why hunger, poverty continues to devour Karamoja despite dozens of gov’t programmes

Investigation; Why hunger, poverty continues to devour Karamoja despite dozens of gov’t programmes

June 3, 2023
UBOS trains supervisors for pilot census, fire two staff

UBOS trains supervisors for pilot census, fire two staff

June 2, 2023
Elle Parle

Elle Parle women’s open hosts 3rd edition

June 2, 2023
ADVERTISEMENT
News 247

Copyright © 2021 24/7 Broadcasting Ltd. [email protected]

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • Virtual Exhibition
    • Politics
    • Business
    • World
    • Science
  • Tech
    • Apps
    • Gear
    • Mobile
    • Startup
  • Entertainment
    • Music
    • Movie
    • Sports
  • Lifestyle
    • Food
    • Fashion
    • Health
    • Travel
  • Shot Stories
  • Fact Checker

Copyright © 2021 24/7 Broadcasting Ltd. [email protected]