MP Nabilah Naggayi, Several Others Arrested For Protesting Police Brutality
By Keefa Nuwahereza
Kampala
Woman Member of Parliament Nabilah Naggayi Ssempala and several other people
were arrested on Tuesday for staging protests against what they termed as
police brutality in Uganda.
Naggayi had led a group of protesters who included Kawempe North Councillor Muhamad Ssegirinya and others to Lubiri Mengo, where they had staged a sit-down strike outside the Kabaka’s palace at Bulange.
MP Nabilah Naggayi before the arrest
They
were protesting against among others, the police’s acts of violently dispersing
several members of the Mbogo Clan who had convened for a meeting over the
weekend in Mityana District over the weekend, where they were teargassed and clobbered
by the police as they dispersed them.
They
were also expressing their dissatisfaction at go...
