FDC women’s league chairperson Ingrid Turinawe is in police custody following her arrest on Monday morning on her way to Kampala.
According to FDC spokesperson Wafula Oguttu, police surrounded Turinawe’s home as well as that of party president, Dr Kiiza Besigye early on Monday. Oguttu says Turinawe managed to escape from her home but was intercepted at Gayaza and arrested. It is not yet clear why the two officials’ homes were surrounded.
Oguttu claims police told him that Turinawe and Activists for Change officials allegedly had a party in Entebbe on Sunday and announced that they would hold a press conference on Monday to re-launch the walk to work protests.
The Bukhooli Central MP says police also insisted that Turinawe is under preventive arrest, something he says was outlawed by a court ruling late last year when Besigye challenged his home incarceration.
But Asuman Mugenyi, the police spokesperson says Ingrid Turinawe left her home on Monday morning, stood in the middle of the road and blocked traffic. Mugenyi claims that her arrest was part of police’s effort to clear the road. She is now being held at Kasangati police station.
