Two police officers have been arrested on orders of President Museveni while others are on the run over alleged election irregularities in the recently concluded National Resistance Movement (NRM) party primaries in Isingiro District.
A senior police source said Assistant Superintendent of Police Silvano Mugisha, the officer in-charge of Kikagati Police Station in Isingiro District, and Corporal Abel Mucunguzi, the area crime intelligence officer, were arrested and transferred to Mbarara Regional Police command.
They were arrested following the President’s orders to the Inspector General of Police Martins Okoth-Ochola to detain and investigate two officers for their alleged participation in rigging the primaries.
The duo is expected to be transferred to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters at Kibuli in Kampala City for interrogation.
The source said the suspects are accused of being behind the rigging that sparked violence that resulted in the killing of three people in Isingiro between September 10th and September 20th.
The CID spokesperson, Charles Twine, said the two officers were arrested by detectives from the Political and Electoral Offences Unit, but denied that they acted after President Museveni’s orders.
