By Leonard Kamugisha Akida,
TURKEY:
Ugandan shadow Foreign Affairs minister Muwada Nkunyingi has disclosed that critic vlogger Fred Lumbuye will soon enjoy justice after the Turkish government disclosed that he will be soon freed from prolison.
Muwada Nkunyingi, also the member of parliament for Kyadondo East said all key legal applications have been submitted and Lumbuye is waiting to get conditional release from detention.
“The legal team in Turkey confirmed to us that Turkish Authorities notified them Fred Lumbuye would be “conditionally” released as all key legal applications were concluded,” Nkunyingi said in a statement.
He noted that the NUP legal team remains committed to promptly follow up on all processes to see Lumbuye free.
Vlogger Lumbuye was arrested in August in Turkey on alleged orders of the Ugandan government. He was reportedly deported to the country but sources from the National Unity Platform legal team denied the reports stressing that they had been on a fact-finding mission in Turkey since the reports of Lumbuye’s arrest surfaced.
Foreign Affairs minister, Okello Oryem said in August that Lumbuye was in their hands and that he was set to be deported back to Uganda to face charges but he in a blink changed the narrative when the blogger was not presented as he had earlier reported.
It was later established that he was held in detention in Turkey where he is yet to be released.
