An Amatuer footage is making rounds on social media featuring six gunmen who intercepted and brutally arrested an unidentified man in the middle of Kampala yesterday.
The video which has been widely shared on social media has made several Ugandans including regime apologists like the veteran journalist, Andrew Mwenda very angry.
Mwenda sent his followers in a frenzy when he called the gunmen “goons” adding that they “behaved like 15th-century thugs in the 21st Century.”
Who are these goons who behave like 15th century thugs in the 21st century!!?? Who employs them to roam the streets? This impunity is too much! The fact that they don’t even think of doing such horrible things in the cover of darkness or in a remote safe house is revealing. https://t.co/vsdTNoIwRq
— Andrew M. Mwenda (@AndrewMwenda) October 19, 2018
One of Mwenda’s proteges, Ian Ortega sympathised with his mentor admitting that it is hard to defend the regime when they treat human life as such.
It is just so hard to defend this government. It’s like it’s trying so hard to anger the citizens
— Ian Ortega (@OrtegaTalks) October 19, 2018
Before forcing their subject into a moving commuter taxi whose number plates (UAF 352S) have since been found to belong to a Toyota Corolla AE110 owned by a one Kanjogera Edith, the assailants beat him with guns butts to near comma as he lay on the tarmac pleading for mercy.
The government has since denied knowledge of the plain-cloth gunmen saying they have launched investigations into the matter.
Investigations are underway to establish who and from which security agency if at all they belong to government @UgandaMediaCent https://t.co/qV6nStVZW7
— Ofwono Opondo P’Odel (@OfwonoOpondo) October 18, 2018
Many Ugandans now say they’re fearing if the days of “Panda gali” that was popular in the late 70s and early 80s has returned.
