Nicholas Opiyo arrested by security
Human rights lawyer and activist Nicholas Opiyo has been arrested by security, Nile Post has learnt.
According to sources, Opiyo was picked from Lamaro restaurant in Kamwokya where he had just had lunch with colleagues, handcuffed and taken to an unknown location.
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Family sources who have talked to Nile Post suspect that their person might have been picked by members of the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI)
Uganda Law Society (ULS) president Pheona Wall later revealed that Opiyo was arrested along with three other advocates, Herbert Dakasi, Anthony Odur and Esomu Obure.
Wall said that they had been informed that Opiyo and colleagues had been arrested by a joint task force of security and financial intelligence officers, on allegations of money laundering and related other malicious acts.
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