Bobi Wine: "Kakwenza told me 'mbu' Muhoozi urged him not expose his torture marks, promised him a job"
Satirical writer Kakwenza Rukirabashaija allegedly told the leader of the National Unity Platforms (NUP) Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine that First Son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba asked him not to show his torture wounds to the world and promised to give him a job.
Kyagulanyi was revealing for the first time, his conversation with Kakwenza, who visited him at his Magere home days after he was released on bail.
Kakwenza was arrested on December 28 and detained for a month for allegedly abusing Muhoozi on social media.
Using his twitter platform, Kyagulanyi said that what happened to Kakwenza, the wounds all over his body is just a small fraction of what they did to him while in detention.
"According to his account, Muhoozi personally participated in his torture, most of which took place at a torture chamber he believes is in Entebbe. On two occasions, Muhoozi met him and demanded that he stops criticising the regime, or else the worst will happen to him," said Kyagulanyi in a statement.
After brutalising Kakwenza in that manner, Kyagulanyi claimed that Muhoozi then "shamelessly tried to compromise" the critical writer so that no one gets to know the kind of torture he was subjected to while in detention.
"He asked him not to show his torture wounds to the world- and promised that they can give him a job, and he stops writing. Somehow, like Museveni, Muhoozi thinks everyone has a price.The world cannot and must not watch on any longer," he said.
He praised Kakwenza for not allowing the intimidation, adding that his strength and resilience is commendable.
Our efforts to talk to Muhoozi were futile.
However the DPP Jane Frances Abodo last week told court that Kakwenza was not tortured during his recent time in detention as he has claimed.
She said the so called torture marks on Kakwenza's body could have been scars from earlier brutal episodes.
Although the state and the president have in the past condemned the use of torture to get information from suspects, some elements in the security agencies continue to torture suspects in their various confines.
The United States Embassy in Uganda last week condemned the recurring reports of forced disappearances, arbitrary detention and torture of Ugandans.
“We urge the Government of Uganda, as a party to the African Charter on human and peoples’ rights and the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, to protect the rights of its citizens and to hold accountable those who violate these rights,”
