President Yoweri Museveni will this afternoon chair and address the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party caucus.
Government Chief Whip Ruth Nankabirwa was this morning making frantic phone calls to all NRM MPs rallying them to attend the “urgent” meeting whose agenda remains unknown even to the MPs. The NRM Caucus meeting expected to be chaired by Museveni will sit at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) starting at 3pm. By press time, NRM MPs were seen making their way to OPM through the Parliament building.
Sources have informed this website that among the items to be discussed on the agenda include the forthcoming Sheema North by-election and above all the Arua saga that saw many opposition MPs including Bobi Wine charged in courts of law. Apparently, Museveni wants to brief the NRM MPs on the recent events that have unfolded prompting him to issue over 5 statements in the last few days since the arrest of Bobi Wine and co-accused.
According to sources, Museveni also wants to address the caucus following the adhoc committee’s report that was constituted by Parliament to investigate the arrest and torture of the incarcerated MPs who were today released on bail.
The adhoc committee report that is yet to be tabled on the floor of Parliament pins security forces for torturing Bobi Wine, Francis Zaake and others during their arrest and while in jail.
In the report, the adhoc committee MPs headed by Doreen Amule, who is also chairperson of committee on Defence and Internal Affairs, revealed that Bobi Wine and other detainees including Zaake, Paul Mwiru, Kassiano Wadri, Gerald Karuhanga, Michael Mabikke and others are in dire state and need urgent treatment. In particular, the committee recommended that Parliament intervenes to ensure that Bobi Wine is transferred from Makindye Military Barracks to seek treatment out and preferably abroad considering the injuries he is nursing.