Tag: Interparliamentary Union

By Keefa Nuwahereza The  Interparliamentary Union (IPU) Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians is in Uganda on fact-finding mission to ensure due process is respected in the cases of abused opposition Members of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine and Francis Zaake. Bobi Wine, the MP Kyadondo East and Zaake, the Mityana municipality MP, who both subscribe to the People Power pressure group, have severally been brutalised and or arrested by police whenever they try to engage in political activities. Francis Zaake with members of the IPU Human Rights Committee Bobi Wine, whose music concerts across the country have since been banned for over two years now, was recently blocked by police from traversing the country to hold consultation meetings with Ugandans ...