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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Gulu has granted bail to Edward Ssebuwufu, also known as Eddie Mutwe, a bodyguard to the Kyadondo East Legislator, Robert Kyagulanyi. He was released together with Musa Ssenyange popularly known as Rabadaba, a 31-year-old resident on Njeru Town Council in Buikwe district.
The court presided over by Stephen Mubiru, the Gulu High Court resident judge granted the duo a non-cash bail of sh5 million each while their sureties were bonded at sh10 million , non-cash.
Kilak South County Member of Parliament Gilbert Olanya and one Eddy Kayabwe stood surety for Eddy Mutwe while Salima Nampandwe, the wife of Ssenyange stood surety for him.
Asuman Basalirwa, the lawyer who represented the suspects told URN that they are grateful that the court granted the applications of the suspects. He said they were tasked to report to court every month until they are committed to the High court for trial.
Basalirwa says with all suspects out on bail, they are looking forward to December 3, when the OC CIID of Arua and Gulu will appear in court to defend the misuse of exhibits impounded from Arua.
Eddy Mutwe appeared in court dressed in a light blue shirt which he changed shortly after getting out of court for a red t-shirt bearing inscription reading “freedom fighter”. The T-shirt was handed to him by a few members of his family who gathered in court for the bail hearing.
He told journalists that he will continue the People Power Resistance from where they stopped.
“…While in prison, I felt like I had been abandoned. But now I am a free man. These things are just intimidating us, frightening us but we are going to start from where we stopped,” he said.
The two were arrested on August 25 and later charged with treason as part of the 33 suspects who were earlier charged in relation to events that preceded the Arua municipality by-elections in August.
It is alleged that while in Arua, a group of people under the people power pressure group pelted stones at the presidential motorcade smashing the windscreen of one of the vehicles in the convoy.
The president was returning from Boma grounds in Arua when he was allegedly attacked by the group which had traveled to Arua to canvass support for Kassiano Wadri, the eventual winner of the Arua municipality parliamentary race.
In the aftermath, the group leader, Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine was arrested alongside fellow legislators Gerald Karuhanga, Kassiano Wadri, Paul Mwiru Francis Zaake, former MP Micheal Mabikke and more than 25 others. They were all charged with treason.
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SOURCE: URN
