The High Court, in Kampala, has set March 22nd as date for hearing a case in which former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine sued the government and its four commanders over raiding opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) party offices in October last year.
The four commanders who are the respondents from the first to sixth in this case are; Chief of Defense Forces General David Muhoozi, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Martin Okoth Ochola, Military Police Commander Keith Katungi, Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander Moses Kafeero and Attorney General (AG).
Kyagulanyi wants the court to make a declaration that the actions of raiding his party offices by more than 1000 officers directly under the control of the said officers and damaging property amounts to an infringement on their freedom of consciousness, expression, movement, assembly, and association.
He contends that on October 14th, 2020, the party headquarters located in Kamwokya were ambushed by a large number of joint security officers both plain-clothed and in uniform who blocked the entrance and looted a number of items.
The evidence before Court indicates that some security officers carried plasma cutters and started cutting the gate before forcing their way inside the premises and looted documents such as those bearing Kyagulanyi’s nomination signatures, branding materials, berets, umbrellas, fliers, masks, CCTV cameras, and digital video recorders.
