KAMPALA.The former Kira Municipality legislator and Secretary General of the opposition People’s Front for Freedom (PFF), Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, has said he is temporarily staying in a neighbouring country he doesn’t mention as he monitors political developments in Uganda.
Ssemujju made the revelation in a post on X on Saturday while reacting to the re-arrest of former Butambala County MP Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi .
Kivumbi,55 was intercepted at a police roadblock in Mpigi District on Friday and armed men in UPDF uniform and plain clothes removed him from is vehicle and bumbled him in a waiting drone which sped off to unknown destination .The rearrest happened just a day after his release from Kitalya Prison on bail in a terrorism case.
“My brother @MuwangaMKivumbi. While you were away in Kitalya Prison for five months, a new order was proclaimed in Uganda,” Ssemujju wrote, alleging that criticism of President Yoweri Museveni’s family had effectively been criminalised and that security agencies were operating outside the law.
“I am also in a neighbouring country trying to learn them. I will through our lawyer Medard Sseggona send you a list of what I have recorded so far,” he added.
Sources close to Ssemujju reveal that he spent about a week in Saudi Arabia before travelling to Kenya, where he is currently believed to be staying.
His remarks came hours after Kivumbi was re-arrested shortly after addressing supporters at his residence in Butambala where he vowed to launch what he called a “new war” against the ruling National Resistance Movement government.
Police , which is by law mandated to carry out arrests ,had not publicly explained Kivumbi’s latest arrest by Saturday evening.
The developments come in the aftermath of Uganda’s January General Election, which were marked by arrests of opposition politicians and disputes over the conduct of security agencies which raid them at their homes or intercept them along highways.
The government has repeatedly denied targeting its political opponents who are reportedly abducted and insists law enforcement agencies act within the law.