{"id":48780,"date":"2021-07-05T14:38:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=48780"},"modified":"2021-07-05T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:38:44","slug":"eight-suspected-katumba-attackers-petition-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/eight-suspected-katumba-attackers-petition-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight suspected Katumba attackers petition court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div class=\"gmail_attr\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>By\u00a0 Ruth Anderah<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Eight people who were arrested and detained for the alleged attempted murder of works minister Gen Edward Katumba Wamala and the murder of his daughter Brenda Natango and his driver have filed an application before the High Court over illegal dentation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The eight led by Kamada Walusimbi alias Mudinka are suing the Attorney General, Deputy Inspector General of Police, the Commandant Special Investigations Directorate, Kireka and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence over illegal detention.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In their habeas corpus application filed through their lawyers of Wameeli and Company Advocates, they accuse the security agencies of illegally arresting them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to an affidavit sworn in on their behalf by Francis \u00a0Nyakoojo, a lawyer and Human Rights activist, \u00a0between June 24th and 2nd July, the suspects were respectively arrested in Kawanda, Maganjo, Muyenga, Namugongo in Kampala and Wakiso District by police officers and other armed plain-clothed security operatives.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">They claim that the security operatives brutally dragged and forced them into a waiting van including Tata Umar who was taken with his child to an unknown place by then and have since been held incommunicado.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">They now want the court to issue an order compelling the respondents to produce them before the court for appropriate orders.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The lawyer further alleges that the suspects have been held beyond the mandated 48 hours without being produced before a competent court which is a violation of their rights.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The court is yet to fix the matter for hearing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0 Ruth Anderah Eight people who were arrested and detained for the alleged attempted murder of works minister Gen Edward Katumba Wamala and the murder of his daughter Brenda Natango and his driver have filed an application before the High Court over illegal dentation. The eight led by Kamada Walusimbi alias Mudinka are suing the Attorney General, Deputy Inspector General of Police, the Commandant Special Investigations Directorate, Kireka and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence over illegal detention. In their habeas corpus application filed through their lawyers of Wameeli and Company Advocates, they accuse the security agencies of illegally arresting them. According to an affidavit sworn in on their behalf by Francis \u00a0Nyakoojo, a lawyer and Human Rights activist, \u00a0between June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":48781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}