Uganda blast: Families want police to free two men
Ugandan police inspect the destroyed Ethiopian Village restaurant in Kampala after twin bomb blasts late on July 11, 2010 tore through crowds of football fans watching the World Cup final, killing 64 people, including an American, and wounding scores others. AFP PHOTO / TREVOR SNAPP
Relatives of two Kenyans who were arrested in connection with the Kampala bombings want them arraigned in court.
The families have asked the High Court to order Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere to appear before it with the warrant allowing him to arrest the two men and show why he should not release them.
In a suit filed at the High Court criminal registry, the relatives said officers from the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit arrested Mr Hussein Hassan Agade and Mr Christopher Magondu alias Idris Magondu on July 22 and 23, respectively.
Mr Agade was arrested in Mlolongo while Mr Magondu was arrested in Kawangware.
Not in police stations
In a sworn affidavit in support of the families’ case, Mr Magondu’s wife, Saida Rosemary, said that more than 20 police officers wearing hoods ransacked her home in Kawangware at about 1.30am.
They then handcuffed and blindfolded her husband before driving off with him. The following day, she said, she searched for him at various police stations, in vain.
Ms Rosemary said her husband is entitled to be treated in accordance with the law and the police should not hold him for more than 24 hours unless he is suspected to have committed a capital offence.
More than 70 people died in Kampala, Uganda, on July 11, after bombs went off at two venues where soccer fans were watching the World Cup final.
