The Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s Court has issued arrest warrant against four sureties for novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija who is facing charges of offensive communication.
These are: Lawyer Julius Galisonga, the Secretary-General of the National Unity Platform Party David Lewis Rubongoya, Annah Ashaba, a teacher at Kololo Secondary School and activist Job Kiija.
Mr Kakwenza was, on January 25, granted a cash bail of Shs500, 000 by the Buganda Road Court, after nearly a month under detention for offences related to a series of tweets he posted about President Yoweri Museveni and his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
In one of the tweets, Kakwenza referred to the President as an election thief and in another, he calls Muhoozi overweight and intellectually bankrupt. But these were seen as an attack on the first family and he was subsequently charged for disturbing the peace of the President and his son with no purpose of legitimate communication.
After being granted a bail, the novelist fled to Germany through Malawi.
Source: Daily Monitor
