By Spy Uganda
Soldiers and police enforcing the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Curfew, which was decreed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, on Friday night arrested former Democratic Party presidential aspirant Samuel Lubega Mukaaku in a lodge, in Kayabwe township, Mpigi district.
According to sources in Kayabwe, Lubega, at the time of being arrested, was traveling from Butambala district enroute to Kampala, but had failed to get a vehicle, hence deciding to spend the night in the lodge.
However, it is said that as he was sleeping, a joint team of Uganda Peoples Defence Forces, (UPDF), Uganda Police and Local Defense Unit (LDU), raided lodges and bars in the area, from where they arrested several people, among them Lubega. The owner of the lodge fled to evade and is currently being hunted by the police.
We have since established that after recording a statement at Kayabwe police post Lubega and others were forwarded to Mpigi police station as investigations continue, from where they will be paraded in court.
It should be noted that a few days ago President Museveni ordered the closure of all bars, lodges, churches, mosques, night clubs and other places where people gather in large numbers, as one of the ways of mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
However, despite the Presidential Directives, several owners of bars and lodges have been operating illegally in various parts of the country, which prompted the police to launch operations aimed at flushing out such people.
By the time of filing this story Lubega, who contested for the position of DP President General in 2009 but lost to Norbert Mao, was still behind coolers.
Last week, over 100 Ugandans who had been arrested for breaching curfew hours were remanded by court for three weeks to Kitalya Maximum prison.
Who Is Lubega?
Born in 1969, Lubega is one of the founders of the Democratic Party’s youth wing of Uganda Young Democrats, which rivals Mao’s faction.
After his diploma in education at Nkozi NTC between 1986 and 1988 he taught biology and chemistry in various schools before joining Makerere University for an agricultural economics degree in 1991.
In 1996, he unsuccessfully attempted to become the MP for Kawempe North. In 2006, Lubega contested for the Busiro East parliamentary seat but he lost.
During his stay at the University of Wales in UK where he attained a Masters Degree in Social Development, he was voted the DP chairman for the UK chapter.
On return in 2009 he aspired for the DP presidency but boycotted the controversial Mbale Delegates’ Conference that elected Mao after citing inconsistencies with the way the election was handled.
He has since fallen out with the Mao camp and is these days a sympathiser of People Power movement leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, the Kyadondo East Member of Parliament.,
