Kapeeka residents stuck in Kampala for days over Museveni meet; beaten by security personnel, one dies

One person succumbed to injuries after a group of

residents from Kapeeka, Luweero that had been invited to visit President Museveni

at Entebbe State House failed to meet him, only to encounter security attached

to Entebbe Police, who roughed them up.

The group led by a one Joel Mulawa claim that on

October 29, while President Museveni visited Kapeeka to launch a ceramics

company dubbed Good Will, he rendered an official invite to the team of 178.

The group, most of them elderly, would then organise and make the journey to Kampala, only to crush into the security wall and getting stuck for days.

Mulawa says that on one of the occasions when they

appeared at State House, they were tear gassed, while some of their colleagues

beaten up and detained. In the process, one of them; Salongo Tebyenkya Chris, a

veteran, succumbed to injuries in hospital.

“We were invited by the president, when we reached

Entebbe we were tear gassed, arrested detained.” MUlawa said.

 Lule

Njere, aged 55, expected merry on coming to Kampala but here is nursing wounds

and in excruciating plain.

“At the last visit we were beaten, my arm broken,

and detained at Entebbe police.”

85-year-

old, Vandicta Kobushinge Bakainaga says he has resorted to street begging for

survival, because they are stranded with no resources to take them back.

 “We don’t even have transport back to Kapeeka,

we have to beg to survive.”

Expressing

Skepticism about the alleged beatings by security team in Entebbe, Don Wanyama

the Senior presidential press secretary confirmed he knew about the team and that

their issues are being handled.

“Their issues were handled, they held a meeting with

the team this was documented and just yesterday, a report was given to the

president desks he will go through it and respond accordingly.”

While the victims pin Entebbe police officials

to have effected the beatings and arrests, we could not get the accused as

their official lines went unanswered.