{"id":18094,"date":"2026-01-12T04:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/18094\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:49:11","slug":"police-confirm-arrest-of-nups-head-of-mobilisation-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/18094\/","title":{"rendered":"Police confirm arrest of NUP&#8217;s head of mobilisation Bu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>_______________<\/p>\n<p>Police on Saturday (January 10) confirmed they had arrested National Unity Platform (NUP) head of mobilisation, Habib Buwembo, together with two other party members.<\/p>\n<p>Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) spokesperson Racheal Kawala named the other two as Ronald Katabala and Josephine Nakakembo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Uganda Police Force would like to confirm the arrest of Buwembo, Katabala and Nakakembo. The three are currently in police custody and will be arraigned before court in due course,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She did not reveal why the trio were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>NUP leader and presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi condemned the arrests, describing them as &#8220;abductions&#8221; and &#8220;cowardly tactics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In July last year, Buwembo pulled out of the Rubaga South parliamentary race to fully commit to his role as the party\u2019s national secretary for mobilisation.<\/p>\n<p>He has since traversed several districts throughout the country, mobilising votes for the party\u2019s flagbearers both at the national, parliamentary and local government levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"_______________ Police on Saturday (January 10) confirmed they had arrested National Unity Platform (NUP) head of mobilisation, Habib&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1688,10438,1419,1179,10439,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-18094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-buwembo","10":"tag-nup","11":"tag-police","12":"tag-police-confirm-arrest-of-nup","13":"tag-uganda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}