Saturday, 21 January 2012


Police Raid Nabillah’s home

SOURCE: THE RED PEPPER, 21 JANUARY 2012
Nabillah's home is under police siege
Hundreds of police officers have this morning stormed the Buziga home of Kampala woman MP Nabillah Nagayi and laid a siege around it. Neighbours have revealed to this reporter that a chuge crowd has formed around the residence making it inaccessible. Nabillah herself has confirmed this development in a text message to us.
“Police surrounding my home in Buziga now; I can’t leave and nobody else is allowed to leave the compound. Even people coming in have been blocked,” Nabillah told us a short while ago.
The police raid at the juicy MP’s upscale Buziga residence is deliberately meant to frustrate the Activists for Change (A4C) political defiance rally Nabillah is organizing at Katwe this morning.
As woman MP, she is free to call Kampala her entire constituency meaning she can have a rally anywhere within the district but police insist that the rally’s motives aren’t noble.
Police spokesperson Asuman Mugenyi says it’s part of a wider ploy to overthrow the government. Nabillah isn’t the first one to be confined within her house.
FDC leader Col Kizza Besigye has routinely been going through this. Police have sometimes laid siege at his home even in defiance of court orders directing them to leave.
Nabillah has deep interest for Makindye West in which Katwe is located because she wants to become area MP replacing Hussein Kyanjo who is on his way out.
Events like this highly emotive rally are one of the ways through which she can build momentum ahead of 2016 when she wants to relocate from woman MP to Makindye West MP. Her Katwe rally was scheduled to begin at 10am.

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