By Andrew Irumba
Kampala: The police on Friday barred Gen. Mugisha Muntu and members of his party Alliance for National Transition (ANT), from staging a rally in Mbarara district.
Spy Uganda has learnt that Anti-police was deployed at Uncle Speed Gardens along Kakooba, in Mbarara municipality, where the meeting was scheduled to take place, and ordered all the participants to vacate immediately.
Anti-police stormed Uncle Speed Gardens along Kakooba in Mbarara municipality where the meeting was scheduled to take place and ordered all participants to vacate immediately.
The meeting had attracted ANT members from Ankole and Kigezi Aub region. Daniel Bukare, the ANT Youth League National spokesperson, said they were surprised by the police decision to block their meeting after clearing them. He added that the top party youth leadership had traveled all the way from Kampala for the meeting only to be frustrated by the unlawful police orders.
Bukara said one of the officers told them that they had received orders from their superiors to block the meeting but didn’t give them any name.
However, a one Kafureka, the ANT coordinator for Ankole sub region, says he personally cleared with police and doesn’t know why their meeting was stopped.
The Rwizi Region police spokesperson, Samson Kasasira, revealed that the meeting was called off because the organisers failed to meet all the requirements put in place by the police for organisers of public events and rallies.
