By Spy Uganda
Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake, who was severely tortured after being arrested for allegedly distributing food during the Coronavirus lockdown, was on Tuesday transferred from Mulago Specialised Referral Hospital to Kirrudu Hospital under the cover of night.
Zaake had been taken to Mulago Hospital by the Police after the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Mityana on Monday rejected hearing charges of disobeying lawful orders of the President which had been preferred against him by the State.
Court also ordered that police should release Zaake on bond such that he can receive adequate medical attention because he was in a terrible health condition that rendered him unfit for trial.
However, despite the court order to free Zaake, family sources reveal that the Police still have him in detention and have since denied him access to his lawyer and immediate family members, although rumours had been going around that he was given bond.
Commenting about his health condition, People Power leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, who is also the Kyadondo East Member of Parliament, tweeted thus; “Hon. @ZaakeFrancis health condition has worsened. He has now been placed on oxygen at Kiruddu hospital where he is admitted & still under police detention. The doctors are contemplating taking him into the ICU. A Member of Parliament is tortured to near death by regime enforcers!”
The Legislator has been in detention since April 19 when he was arrested by a joint team from Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF), Uganda Police, Local Defence Unit (LDU) for allegedly distributing food and other items to people in Mityana Municipality.
However, during his 12th National Address on Coronavirus, President Yoweri Museveni wondered why the police arrested only Zaake and left other people, including National Resistance Movement (NRM) Ministers and Members of Parliament to go Scot-free.
It should be noted that during his 8th and 9th National Addresses about Coronavirus, Museveni ordered the police to arrest all politicians and other people giving out food to Ugandans during the COVID-19 lockdown, because they propagate the spread of the pandemic.
He directed the police to charge anyone they arrest with attempted murder, because the act of donating food to Ugandans without giving it to the COVID-19 National Task Force exposes innocent lives to grave danger.
