Trouble for the Kampala chained youths who were recently arrested during the botched “free my vote campaign” protests have been denied bail and sent back to Luzira.
The youths, six in number appeared before Gladys Kamasanyu, the Buganda Road Court Grade One Magistrate and denied the charges of holding an unlawful assembly.
The police spokesperson identifies the troubled young men as, Latif Bazibu, Didas Mugisha, Badru Magumba, Sande Kiweewa, Alex Apangu, and Isaac Kyagulanyi, who were arrested in Kampala last week, chained on electric poles, holding placards with words; “free my vote.”
According to the youths, all they wanted was to see the FDC former presidential candidate Dr. Kiiza Besigye a free man, and occupying the state house as the rightfully elected leader of Uganda.
The trouble however came when they could not secure a release on Bail as since they lacked a legal representative.
Unfortunately, a one Kizza Abdul, the lawyer that the troubled youths had hired, did not have a practicing certificate, a perquisite document to represent suspects in court.
This left presiding magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu with no choice but to remand them to Luzira prison until April 18.
