Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buganda Boulevard Chief Magistrates Court has remanded 16 supporters of the ruling Nationwide Resistance Circulation (NRM) to Luzira Penal advanced on charges of robbery.
The community, consisting of youths mature between 16 and 28, looked before Senior Principal Grade One Magistrate Winnie Nankya Jatiko on Tuesday. They were charged with one depend of robbery opposite to Sections 266 and 267 of the Penal Code Act, which they denied.
The suspects, all residents of Kampala and Wakiso districts, were arrested in connection with a robbery that took place on Saturday come the Nationwide Theatre in Kampala.
The prosecution, led by Pronounce Legal skilled Allan Mucunguzi alleges that the community, alongside with others restful at massive, robbed a man identified as Kigozi Abdul of a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone, a Nokia handset, and money amounting to sh 600,000. The total value of the stolen items changed into estimated at sh1.45 million.
In accordance to court paperwork, the suspects, some of whom were wearing yellow t-shirts bearing photos of President Museveni, reportedly used violence during the robbery, causing excessive pain to the sufferer.
These remanded encompass Turinawe Emmanuel, Nsereko Jamir, Maikuma Ashirtaf, Tumusiime Ronald, Lugwa Joseph alias Muyindi, Kengozi Jenipher, Mulani Shaban, Monday Joseph, Mugezi Isaac Benjamin alias Sparta, a pupil of S5 at St Francis SS in Nansana, Asaba Umarau Lakika, Serunkuma Derrick, Matovu Kenneth alias Cobra, Ogenyi Robert alias Ali Corbikz, Makafu Richard, Bwambale Edgar and Kadama Abdul.
Pronounce Legal skilled Mucunguzi suggested the court that investigations are total. Magistrate Nankya remanded the suspects to Luzira Penal advanced except July 18, 2025, when the listening to is anticipated to commence.
Earlier within the day, the Law Pattern Centre Court remanded a community of 14 NRM supporters over an analogous charges stemming from their involvement within the toll road robberies on Saturday.
The suspects, starting from students and mechanics to boda boda riders and informal workers, are suspected to contain links to the NRM rep collectively, with several beforehand seen actively taking fragment in rep collectively mobilization and advertising campaign events. Nonetheless, their political affiliations were not talked about as linked to the prison charges during court court cases.
The situations were registered below separate prison files at Wandegeya Police Plot and are being prosecuted below diverse sections of the Penal Code Act, alongside with Allotment 266 (Robbery), 267(1)(a), and Allotment 237 (Theft).
Pain for the formative years started on Saturday, after they were seen in a video that went viral as they were on streets wearing yellow t-shirts when the Chairman of the NRM Celebration and President of Uganda Museveni changed into to bid ardour in contesting as the rep collectively’s flag bearer within the 2026 typical elections and likewise to live as the rep collectively chairman.
Their faces were identified by safety, they normally were hunted down and kept at Wandegeya police before they would perhaps maybe even be produced these days.
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