Shortly after the Komamboga bombing in Kawempe division, a barmaid who happened to be one of the eyewitnesses while she spoke to a news reporter, said the people who she suspected were behind the bombing were wearing People Power T-shirts. People Power is the precursor of the National Unity Platform (NUP).
Meanwhile, NUP has distanced itself from these Saturday Komamboga bombings that killed at least one person and injured three others.
Speaking today at the party headquarters in Kamwokya, the Party Secretary-General David Lewis Rubongoya, said they are a peaceful organization that cannot engage in acts so diabolical as the killing of people.
However, Rubongoya said that such claims cannot be taken lightly because this could be a well-orchestrated move by the state to frame NUP leaders in order to put them behind bars for a long time.
On his part Joel Ssenyonyi, the spokesperson of NUP called for a swift and honest investigation into what actually happened at Komambogo with a view that actual perpetrators be brought to book.
“Our demand not as NUP but really as citizens of Uganda is for police to carry out swift and honest investigations so that the perpetrators of this very unfortunate incident are known and brought to book,” Ssenyonyi said.
“We have heard some government apologists trying to link this to NUP and we think it’s very redundant and clumsy and this happens when they want us to digress from insisting that investigations are carried out.”
He also called upon the government to immediately lift the dusk to dawn curfew that was instituted last year to help deal with the spread of Covid-19.
Ssenyonyi, the Nakawa West MP said the government of Uganda like that of Kenya did last week, must appreciate that Covid-19 is here to stay.
