29 ARRESTED KING MUMBERE FIGHTERS SPEND SIX DAYS AT BUSHENYI POLICE

BY WILBER MUHWEZI

IN BUSHENYI—-

Bushenyi police station made a restricted area since Tuesday last week

Twenty nine people arrested from the king of wensly Mumbere’s palace in Kasese on Nov. 27, 2016 and brought to Bushenyi are still being held at Greater Bushenyi regional police cells.

The greater Bushenyi regional police spokesperson SP Martial Tumusiime declined to make any comment and referred us to the force’s national spokesperson AIG Andrew felix Kawesi.

According to a credible source who is a senior police officer at Bushenyi told www.mknewslink.com editor that some Mumbere’s royalists were badly injured and medical workers were called in to treat them from the cells.

The source added that among the arrested include four women. “Ours is to keep custody of these people but not to take them to court” the source said.

King Mumbere was remanded over murder charges by Jinja chief magistrate’s court to Kirinya government prison

Another greater Bushenyi senior intelligence officer who preferred not to be named told this news website that the purpose of bringing the Kasese suspects was to screen them to know who is who among the arrested.

“We wanted to know if you are a cook of king Mumbere, a visiting relative or a royal guard. I want to inform you that the exercise is over and we are waiting  for the next course of action” senior intelligence officer told www.mknewslink.com news website Monday 05, 2016.

Since Tuesday Nov. 29, when these 29 royal guards were brought to Bushenyi police, security at the facility was intensified with a road block at the entrance of police to know who accesses the station.

The unfenced police station being surrounded by armed police officers with a thread as a temporally face covering around the police station.

Another source told this editor that the intensification of security at Bushenyi police station followed rumors that residents of Kasese[Bakonjo royal to Mumbere] wanted to come attack Bushenyi police station and rescue their colleagues.

Other royal guards are being held at Ntungamo, Ibanda, Fort portal, and Mbarara police stations

The leader of opposition in parliament and who is also woman MP for Kasese district on Saturday lamented that she was not aware of the whereabouts of the arrested people from her district.

“The 48 hours mandatory period have already elapsed but police doesnot want produce the arrested in court and we even don’t know places where they are being held. We have lawyers and would want to help them” Winnie Kiiza told NTV Saturday night.

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