Police brutally raid Makerere students’ presser, arrest NUP candidate

Police have brutally stormed a presser held by the Makerere University students opposed to the draconian guild statute that bars partisan politics from featuring in guild elections.

The students were led by the 88th Guild Vice President Nattabi Margaret who was interdicted from the 89th guild contest over allegations that her camp participated in a ‘kimeeza’ at Mitchell hall, where a student Sserunjogi was injured in a melee.

They were to hold their press conference inside the university but the heavy police deployment made it quite risky prompting them to secure a venue at Emerald Hotel at Bombo Road.

However, no sooner had the students’ presser began that heavily armed Field Force Unit policemen from Wandegeya police division swung into the presser and started to beat up the attendants.

A police officer attached to Wandegeya was seem roughing up on Ms. Nattabi Margaret, strangling and beating her up im front of cameras.

A police source concerned about the brutality briefed this publication that the students who were arrested are being detained at Wandegeya police station on the orders of Mr. Gordon Murangira, a Personal Assistant to the Vice Chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe.

Mr. Murangira is said to be behind the attacks on opposition student leaders and activists.