CIID ordered to summon 4GC leaders

SOURCE: THE DAILY MONITOR, 27 JANUARY 2013

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/CIID-ordered-to-summon-4GC-leaders/-/688334/1675026/-/15imptd/-/index.html

IN SUMMARY

Mr Kaweesi alleged that the politicians, including former Forum for Democratic Change President Kizza Besigye and Mr Mathias Mpuuga engaged in unlawful society.

The Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander, Mr Andrew Felix Kaweesi, has ordered the Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department to summon all opposition politicians who attended the For God and My Country (4GC) press conference at Katonga Road in Kampala on Wednesday.

Mr Kaweesi alleged that the politicians, including former Forum for Democratic Change President Kizza Besigye and Mr Mathias Mpuuga engaged in unlawful society.

“The Attorney General declared 4GC and its activities illegal. So these people met at Katonga Road and participated in unlawful society,” Mr Kaweesi said yesterday.

It is, however, not clear how the police came to a conclusion that the group was holding an illegal meeting.

Mr Kaweesi said they got information through intelligence that the meeting was attended by the members of a banned society.
Other officials targeted are Jeema party president Asuman Basalirwa and Mr Muwanga Kivumbi for Butambala County.

The summonses come at a time when the KCCA Lord Mayor, Mr Erias Lukwago, announced a cleanup exercise in the city centre on Saturday which the opposition leaders are expected to participate in.
Mr Kaweesi said since the cleanup exercise has been hijacked by the 4GC, they would not allow it to take place.

“The function has been taken over by the 4GC therefore we can’t allow an illegal society to take place,” he said.

Mr Mpuuga, when contacted yesterday, said they cannot be intimidated by the police summonses because that is one of the methods used by dictatorial regimes to suppress human rights.

“These summonses they want to use don’t move us an inch. We are waiting to be arrested and detained. This has become part of our life in the fight against dictatorship,” Mr Mpuuga said.

He said they are challenging the Attorney General declaration of 4GC in court, adding that they would participate in the clean-up exercise despite the police warning them against it.