Mwesiga Eric a national Unity platform member who was paraded a couple of weeks ago by Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu the party president with flat iron burns on his chest attributed to state torture has made a U-turn claiming his state accusation were fabricated.
Mwesigwa Eric was allegedly lured by the national Unity platform leadership to have wounds inflicted on his body promising to give him 50 million Uganda shillings and residence abroad. In return, Eric was to allegedly claim he was abducted and tortured by the government.
In a press release that was made in Mbuya on the 1st of March 2023, Eric claimed that the National Unity Platform never fulfilled their promise thus forcing him to come out and say the truth.
It should be noted that on Janan Luwum day, the Katikiro of Buganda came out to condemn torture in Uganda based on Eric’s incident. The army had come out a few days earlier to dismiss claims that Eric was tortured by the state.
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu; the president of the national unity platform has come out to dismiss the allegations made by Eric. Here are the details of his submissions.
The shameless, criminal regime at it again! Same old tricks. Same ridiculousness. Mwesigwa Eric has been complaining of being trailed ever since he spoke about his torture. Today, from an army barracks, they parade him to claim it’s NUP that tortured him! What a bunch of thugs! pic.twitter.com/4HTzkPhSYP
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) March 1, 2023
This same person in his complaint to Uganda Human Rights Commission is on record saying he was abducted by armed security personnel and gravely tortured. He also made a report at Police stating that since he returned from torture chambers, unknown people had been following him.
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) March 1, 2023
I wish to state that this is an amateurish attempt by the UPDF to spin the unfortunate torture of a citizen by the army, which confirms that indeed the torture meted out on Mwesigwa and others like him is sanctioned by the UPDF and other security agencies.
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) March 1, 2023
I am sure no body in Uganda can fall for this nonsense. They know so well that Museveni’s regime of blood came through violence and deception, and continues to hold onto power using the same tools. This is their standard behaviour!
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) March 1, 2023
When Yasin Kawuma was shot dead in Arua, UPDF claimed that our group carried out the murder. To date they have never arrested or prosecuted anybody. The country is also aware of the contradictory statements that former President of NUP Mzee Kibalama made in court after meeting..
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) March 1, 2023
the Chief of Defense Forces. Recently when they abducted and raped comrade Marinos, they quickly called a press conference and downplayed the heinous crimes. They did the same for Kakenza, Masereka, etc. The examples are endless.
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) March 1, 2023
Fortunately, vigilant Ugandans have always recorded videos of most of these abductions involving armed security men and everytime there have been such incidents, majority of the victims have been arraigned in court after pressure from our lawyers and the public.
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) March 1, 2023
Examples are many — Katto Hussein Gaza, Motiv Kasaga, Bobi Young, Jamushid Kavuma, etc. Yesterday, they abducted another man right outside Buganda Road Court. Was that NUP in action??? I challenge Kulayije and his conspirators to produce CCTV footage of Mwesigwa ‘s abduction!
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) March 1, 2023
We hope the blatant lies by the UPDF spokesperson are motivated by embarrassment, and that moving forward, they will stop abducting and torturing citizens. They engage in these panicky gimmicks is because they fear sanctions and prosecution, which will certainly come.
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) March 1, 2023
They would rather torture people, but do everything possible for the world not to know. Too late for them, the evidence of their crimes is available to the whole world.
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) March 1, 2023