{UAH} Amama supporters arrested for 'attempting to rob Centenary bank'

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What do you make of this attempted robbery in your home city? Have the
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Amama supporters arrested for 'attempting to rob Centenary bank'
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Last Updated: 01 September 2015 Print Email Mbabazi supporters being
arrested in Mbarara
Seven supporters of presidential aspirant Amama Mbabazi have been
arrested and detained at Mbarara central police station for
distributing his posters in the busy town centre.

The seven that include Joseph Kiiza, Bright Muhumuza and Benson Muntu
Bakinyenza, the western region Mbabazi campaign coordinators were
rounded up Tuesday morning at Centenary Bank, Mbarara branch.

Police also confiscated several t-shirts with Mbabazi's picture,
posters and flyers which were being distributed to boda boda riders
and the business community along Highway Street.

Jaffar Magyezi, the acting Mbarara district police commander alleges
the group who pretended to be distributing Amama Mbabazi's posters in
the centre of the town had a hidden agenda of robbing Centenary bank.

According to Magyezi, ten centenary bank customers have already filed
cases of theft of their money at Mbarara central police station.
Magyenzi says those arrested will be charged with robbery and
organizing unlawful assembly.

"I don't really know whether when you want to become a leader means
that you first demonstrate or stage a procession that is when you get
votes. I think it really wrong and Ugandans need to understand that
when you really have a heart for Uganda you can't do what these
people. We are going to treat them as the law says. it is not a
procession, it is something staged. I think they either wanted to rob
a bank or to steal. All those people who have alleged that they have
lost things, they will have to compensate them", Magyezi said.

Joseph Kizza, Mbabazi's campaign coordinator for western region said
that police is trying to frame them. Kizza says police came following
them up while they distributed posters to business people in their
shops and not on the street as alleged by police.

Joel Mande, a resident of Mbarara town who had just received Mbabazi's
poster and police confiscated it from him condemned the manner in
which security personnel are harassing Mbabazi's supporters in the
country. In June 2015, the same group was arrested while distributing
Mbabazi's posters and t-shirts in Mbarara town and later charged with
holding unlawful assembly.

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