Just be glad Mu7 is not in the medical field. He'd let the patient die and be buried first then write a prescription, have the body excavated to be given the medicine.
In this case, ignoring his own constitution and judicial system he ordered Monitor Radio closed. After that, in the guise of wanting to seem to be conducting some sort of investigation, he had Andrew Mwenda arrested (before any evidence was gathered that we were told of, perhaps without even so much as an arrest warrant). Possibly we shall see some sort of trial in a kangaroo court and then perhaps imprisonment or whatever the punishment for sedition is. Colonialists, in order to legally harass and suppress Africans who were demanding self-government, by the way, introduced sedition laws.
Some revolution Musevenis turned out to be. With every passing day the stench of a dictatorship grows stronger.
One wonders what the investor who put up the tons of money needed set up a functioning radio operation must be thinking.
Sandy L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Netters this is scary: Thought we were logn past this.
Monitors Mwenda detained CHARLES MWANGUHYA, SIMON KASYATE, SIRAJ LUBWAMA & KELVIN NSANGI KAMPALA The host of the Tonight With Andrew Mwenda Live talk show on 93.3 KFM has been arrested and detained on charges of sedition.
Mr Mwenda who is also the Political Editor of the Daily Monitor was yesterday interrogated by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for at least one and a half hours and later whisked off to the Central Police Station (CPS) where he was booked for the night.
According to the Monitor Publications Ltd Legal and Administrative Manager, Ms Anne Abeja Muhwezi, Mwenda was questioned over his August 10 edition of the talk show. Earlier on Thursday, the Broadcasting Council had shut down KFM over the same programme and suspended the radio stations broadcasting licence for allegedly offending minimum broadcasting standards.
Mwenda, clad in a blue short sleeve KFM shirt, a black pair of jeans walked into the CID headquarters along Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road near Parliament at 3:43 pm after receiving summons earlier in the afternoon.
Upon arrival, he joked to colleagues from Daily Monitor who waited outside the gate, I have left my phone at home, I have no belt, and I am ready to go to jail.
Accompanied by Monitor lawyer James Nangwala and Muhwezi, Mwenda walked straight into the office of Assistant Superintendent of Police Charles Kataratambi.
Good afternoon gentlemen, I am here for you to bite, to chew and to swallow. What are you saying? he joked upon entering the office. Kataratambi replied, I am pleased you know how to keep time.
Seated in the office was the Presidential Assistant on Political Affairs, Mr Moses Byaruhanga, who was one of the guests on Mwendas show on Wednesday.
Mwenda and Byaruhanga hugged and exchanged pleasantries before the latter was led to another office within the CID complex.
Shortly afterwards Kataratambi ordered the journalists to stay away, saying only Mwenda and the lawyers were required in the office.
Byaruhanga did not spe ak to journalists but CID officials said he had recorded a statement.
Mwenda stayed in Kataratambis office for close to two hours before the interrogation began.
He was later moved to another office by the O/C Serious Crime SSP James Habuchiriro where he was kept for one and a half hours before he was later returned to Kataratambis office. Mwenda was charged and cautioned for sedition under Section 50 of the Penal Code Act before he recorded a statement.
Sedition is an utterance, which has the intention of bringing into disaffection the person of the president, the government as by law established or the Constitution.
A charge and caution is a procedural requirement that whatever is said may be used as evidence in a court of law.
Nangwala said before being questioned and making the statement, Mwenda dramatically tried to acclimatise himself to prison conditions by lying on the floor, surprising the Police officers present.
Nangwala told Da ily Monitor that after Mwenda made his statement, Habuchiriro made several phone calls before a gray Saloon car Reg. No. UAD 476R, arrived to take him to CPS.
We were not told at any time that Mwenda would be detained, Nangwala said adding, so when he was asked to get into this car, we had to follow the car.
At CPS, which was in darkness due to a power blackout, Mwenda was taken to the booking office where he was booked in and later moved down a dark alley into a crowded cell in the basement of CPS at 7:05pm.
Monitor Publications Managing Director Conrad Nkutu described the detention as very unfortunate and an excessive reaction from the government.
Nkutu said Mwenda had walked himself to CID and they should have invited him to appear again.
He said the law of sedition under which Mwenda was charged does not have a proper place in a democratic state.
All countries that respect press freedom as a pillar of democracy have removed from their books laws that criminalise media offences, Nkutu said.
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