Police Seals Off The Late Abigail’s Home

SOURCE: THE RED PEPPER, 10 AUGUST 2011

UPDATE2: Security operatives have cordoned off the home of the late Abigail Julian Nalwanga, who was shot dead in April during the walk to work protests to block Activists for Change from accessing it.

It came after Activists for Change announced plans on Wednesday to hold memorial prayers for the 2-year-old girl and the launch of the Light a candle campaign in memory of victims of the Walk to Work protests.

Nalwanga’s home is located in Kitaka Zone in Nyendo, a suburb of Masaka town. This Wednesday, policemen stormed the home a few hours to the memorial prayers and ordered it closed.

Michael Mulindwa, a politician in Nyendo says that police found Olivia Naluuge, the mother to the deceased cleaning the home in preparations for the prayers and ordered her to stop.

Mulindwa says that Simon Peter Wafana, Southern Region Police Commander ordered Naluuge to close the home saying that the memorial prayer of her daughter had been stopped.

Naluuge and her husband Aloysius Walusimbi later left the home without trace as their known mobile phone numbers were switched off.

But Simon Peter Wafana, the Southern Region Police commander claims that the couple went to their Bukomansimbi farm to work.

Anti riot police has also sealed off the disputed Nyendo central market and ordered all the people who had gathered to vacate the area.

Andrew Sorowen the Assistant Inspector General of Police, says that he  could not allow Mpuuga and his group conduct prayers at the late Abigail’s  home because it is too small to accommodate hundreds of people expected to attend.

He says that police advised Mpuuga during the crisis meeting at RDC’s office to relocate the prayers to Kasana pray ground.