Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament Betty Nambooze has been discharged from hospital, a day after she checked in with injuries reportedly sustained during the violence that characterised Bukoto South parliamentary by-election.
On Thursday, Nambooze was admitted at St. Damian Clinic in Nyendo Masaka shortly she was released by police. Nambooze was among five legislators arrested in Kinoni on Wednesday night for alleged involvement in election violence.
The others are Muhammad Kawuma for Entebbe Municipality, Deo Kiyingi for Bukomansimbi County, Susan Namaganda, the Bukomansimbi Woman MP and Rubaga North MP Moses Kasibante.
Upon their release on police bond, Nambooze felt weak and was admitted at Damian Clinic in Nyendo -Masaka where she spent the night before being discharged on Friday morning. The vocal MP says she will go for further medical examination in Kampala.
Nambooze has, however, given police one day to release her items confiscated on Wednesday. The items include two Dell laptops, three tents, three mattresses, five shirts, her wallet, and parliamentary identity card among others.
She also claims that her money amounting to two million shillings was stolen by police during her arrest. She therefore gives police one day to surrender her items before she stages protests in Kinoni.
MP Kasibante, who was also detained by police for alleged election violence, says he arrested a suspect who was involved in vote-rigging at Sseke SS but instead of police taking action, they instead arrested him.
Kasibante has asked police boss Kale Kayihura to resign his position and contest in one of the constituencies instead of indirectly meddling in politics on the side of the ruling NRM party.
Kayihura could not be reached for a comment. But Noah Sserunjogi, the Southern Region police spokesperson denies police involvement in partisan politics in Bukoto South.
He told URN in a separate interview on Friday that they simply arrested MP Nambooze and her team to protect them from the mob which wanted to lynch them in Kinoni.
On Thursday night, Mathias Nsubuga of the Democratic Party was declared winner of Bukoto South by-election after polling 11,854 votes.
Nsubuga beat three other candidates including former minister John Alintuma Nsambu, who polled 10,427 votes. Independent candidate Dan Katula Mubiru got four votes while Julius Sssentamu of the Forum for Democratic Change—FDC—managed only fifty nine votes.
