The National Unity Platform party Secretariat has this Sunday morning reached out to the family of detained political activist Agaba Anthony code named Bobi Young.
The activist has been in jail since his arrest at the start of the year. He is apparently in the court martial grappling with charges of spreading harmful propaganda against the UPDF. His two co-accused co-accused L/CPL Apollo Bigirwa, 41, attached to the 2nd Division Infantry Guard Battalion in Mbarara District and Private Stuart Nuwahereza, 33, attached to the 3rd Division Battalion in Karamoja took a plea of guilt and were both sentenced to 6 months and 9 months respectively.
Bobi Young, who has an expectant wife took a plea of not guilty to the charges.
The army says Bobi Young and the two UPDF soldiers in different places in Mbarara and Kampala used their social media platforms to spread malicious information against the government of Uganda and the army. In the content, one of the soldiers expressed frustrations with the delayed payment of his salary and that of other soldiers deployed in Karamoja and Somalia.
The NUP secretary general David Lewis Rubongoya who is in Rwamanja relayed a message of sorrow when he reiterated that Bobi Young’s mother is gravely ill, and the other saddening bit is that her other son, a brother to Bobi Young was arrested for wearing NUP attire.
“This morning in Rwamwanja, Kamwenge District, we checked on the mother, wife, children and siblings of comrade BOBI YOUNG who is under detention at Luzira Upper Prison. Bobi Young’s mother has not been feeling well, in addition to the general state of intimidation they live under. His brother was recently arrested and detained for putting on a red beret and #PeoplePower t-shirt. They are very strong- inspired by their faith. We assured them that our legal teams are doing everything possible to ensure #BobiYoung comes out of jail.
#BringBackOurPeople
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersUganda,” Rubongoya wrote.
