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NUP leaders barred from visiting jailed supporter
Prisons authorities in Nakaseke District yesterday barred a delegation of National Unity Platform party leaders who had visited the facility to check on their jailed supporter Ongima Geoffrey alias High Tower.
Ongima was in the course of the week charged with assault of a one Majambere Kamunti at a burial in Nakaseke last year. He was consequently remanded despite taking a plea of not guilty.
The NUP party secretary general David Lewis Rubongoya says he and his team were barred from checking on Ongima.
“Comrade High Tower was remanded to Wakyato Government Prison in Nakaseke District. Today we tried to visit him, but they told us to return next week, because of ‘security reasons’. Aluta continua!,” Rubongoya said on his social media.
Sources at Wakyato prison however disclosed to this publication that High Tower sustained severe wounds during his torture which explains why authorities do not want him to meet any visitors at the moment.