Three A4C members charged with treason

SOURCE: THE NEW VISION, 19 OCTOBER 2011

 

Police clash with walk-to-work supporters earlier this year

NAKAWA, Magistrates Court –Three members of the Activists for Change (A4C) pressure group have been charged with treason following a recent reawakening of the walk-to-work campaign.
The three, Sam Mugumya, Mwijukye Francis and Ingrid Turinawe, are among several other loyalists of the group said to have contrived a plot to throw the government out of power between August and October of 2011.
Turinawe, the A4C leader, did not appear for the trial, which started Wednesday morning in Nakawa, prompting the court to issue a warrant of arrest for her.
Mugumya and Mwijukye were present but court did not allow them to take a plea due to jurisdiction.
The trio, together with other individuals, allegedly executed their plot in Kampala, Mityana, Hoima, Wakiso and other districts.
They mobilized the launching of simultaneous riots across the country until the government would be overthrown.
Joseph Bayiga, the state prosecutor in the case, affirmed that investigations are to continue.