KAMPALA, UGANDA: Police has confirmed the arrest and detention of Geofrey Onzima, alias Tower, a private bodyguard of National Unity Platform President Mr Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu on charges of grievous harm and assault.
According to Police spokesperson, SCP Fred Enanga, Onzima was arrested by CID detectives after he was pinpointed for being the mastermind behind the battering of outspoken ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) activist Ivan Kamuntu Majambere after a section of NUP supporters clashed with the NRM group at the burial of late Sulaiman Jakana Nadduli at Kadunda Village, Nakaseke District in October last year.
“On 7.02.2023, our @CID1_UG task teams arrested, one Onzima Geofrey alias “High Power”, who was on our wanted list for causing Grievous Harm, to Majambere Kamuntu, whom he together with others, viciously attacked on the 24.10.2022 during the burial of the late Jakan Suleiman, at Kadunda village in Nakaseke District,” Enanga tweeted on Wednesday morning.
He added that Onzima among other suspects went into hiding in Nairobi after the incident, but he was “tracked down upon his return and arrested from another hideout in Nansana.”
Enanga’s statement comes barely a day after hours after Bobi Wine on Tuesday said on Twitter that Onzima had been abducted by armed men in casual wear.
“Comrade Onzima Geoffrey aka Tower is the latest victim of violent abductions. Armed thugs dressed casually attacked him in Nansana, fired bullets and took him away in a ‘drone’. Not clear if he wasn’t shot. It will take the effort of WE THE PEOPLE- to put an end to this madness,” Bobi Wine said in a tweet.
The development also comes after the General Court Martial sitting at Makindye, Kampala on January 30, 2023, remanded to prison another NUP supporter and close ally of Mr Kyagulanyi, Anthony Agaba alias Bobi Young, on allegations of spreading harmful propaganda.
Bobi Young, 29, who is also a blogger and a resident of Mutungo in the Nakawa Division was charged alongside two Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers, eight days after he had been reported missing.
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