By Kabuye Ronald
Buganda Road Chief Magistrate court presided over by acting High Court judge Douglas Singiza has granted bail to People’s Front Transition (PFT) leader Dr. Kizza Besigye and Samuel Lubega Mukaaku.
The Former presidential candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye and his co-accused Samuel Lubega Mukaaku were bonded at Shs2.5 million cash each while each of their sureties was bonded at Shs500 million, not cash.
The trial judge also ordered the duo not to make any public comments about the case until its hearing is complete.
The two political activists who have been in detention since June 15 when they were arrested in downtown Kampala for allegedly inciting Ugandans to rise up against government inaction to cushion vulnerable citizens against skyrocketing commodity prices. They were briefly detained at Kampala Central Police Station before they were transferred to Naggalama Police Station in Mukono District.
On June 17, they were arraigned before Buganda Road Court presided over by grade one magistrate Asuman Muhumuza who declined to release them on bail on grounds that they had become “habitual offenders”.
On Thursday 30, June, Judge Asiimwe Tadeo dismissed their bail application and ordered them to request for the same in the Chief Magistrate Court
