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Former Kira Municipality MP and People’s Front for Freedom (PFF-EFF) Secretary General Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda has said he is temporarily staying away from Uganda as he monitors what he described as a changing political environment in the country.
In a post on X while commenting on the rearrest of his friend and former Butambala County MP Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi, Ssemujju said he is currently in a neighbouring country “trying to learn” what is happening in Uganda.
Ssemujju claimed that a “new order” had emerged in Uganda where criticism of members of President Yoweri Museveni’s family is treated as a criminal offence.
“While you were away in Kitalya Prison for five months, a new order was proclaimed in Uganda,” Ssemujju wrote, adding that “rules in the new order are being issued right and left.”
He further alleged that institutions such as the police, military and judiciary were being affected by the political environment, claiming that “power to arrest is no longer with police” and that judges consult political leaders before delivering decisions.
Ssemujju said he would continue documenting what he has observed and share it through their lawyer, Medard Sseggona.
His comments came after Kivumbi, a former Butambala MP, was granted bail by the High Court on Thursday after spending about five months on remand, but was rearrested by security officers on Friday and taken to an unknown location.
Before his rearrest, Kivumbi criticized President Museveni, the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), the First Lady and members of the First Family, saying he would not be deterred from continuing his political activities- Read about Kivumbi's Recapture