The National Unity Platform (NUP) leadership has quashed the statements issued by the police and Ugandan Human Rights Commission (UHRC0 implicating the opposition political party in the violence that characterized the burial of the son of former Minister, Ahajji Abdul Nadduli.
In their statement issued this morning, NUP insists that the NRM supporter who was seen being assaulted by the NUP supporters had provoked the crowd by stopping party leaders from speaking.
The NUP statement also denotes the events that followed where the assaulted supporter called Majjambere was seen in another video seated in a police car and threatening to kill four NUP supporters.
“At the burial, while seated in a police vehicle and in the presence of police officers, Majjambere confirmed that he has been in charge of torture cells at Nalufenya and promised to kill at least 4 NUP supporters in the name of Museveni and his son. Instead of holding him to account for these criminal actions, Enanga simply wished him a quick recovery. Just like Sipapa and other regime-sponsored thugs who have attacked us in the past,he enjoys full protection from the state,” in part read the NUP statement.
Shortly after the burial of Nadduli’s son, Jakana Nadduli, the police and the UHRC separately issued statements that condemned the brutality meted on the NRM supporter and promised to investigate and arrest the culprits.
During the clash, Nadduli was evacuated as the NRM and NUP supporters engaged in a fist fight.
“This is the same Commission which was silent when Jakana Nadduli was abducted, tortured, held incommunicado and denied access to medical treatment for over a week! The same Commission has been loudly mute about extrajudicial killings, rape of women in detention, gruesome torture and other atrocities committed by the regime on our supporters. We have filed before them several complaints about gross human rights violations but they always ignore them. And now, they pretend to care about human rights,” the NRM said in a statement.
National Unity platform states they do not condone acts of violence and partisanship shown by the state institutions and hope they would be focused on investigating the suspicious death of the Late Jakana Nadduli.
“While we do not condone acts of violence, we strongly condemn the partisanship exhibited by these state institutions. Under ordinary circumstances, they would be investigating the suspicious death of comrade Jakana Nadduli, but they won’t. Instead, they are desperate to protect a criminal and reprimand his victims. This is what Gen. Museveni has done to our country. He has packed all institutions with sycophants ready to do his bidding at any time. Let us soldier on until we restore sanity to our nation and build state institutions which will serve the people of Uganda. END.”
