The Chief of Defence Forces , Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has broken the silence about the arrest of National Unity Platform president, Robert Kyagulanyi’s bodyguard, Eddie Mutwe.
Mutwe has been missing for five days.
In a series of tweets on Thursday night, Gen Muhoozi said the Special Forces Command had arrested Mutwe and is currently under their detention.
Gen Muhoozi wrote, “Mutwe is in my basement learning Runyankole, you are next.”
He later posted a photo of Eddie Mutwe without his signature beard.
“I captured NUP’s military commander like a grasshopper (Nsenene). If they keep on provoking us, we shall discipline them even more. The beards were the first thing the boys removed. After he finished crying and urinating,” Muhoozi tweeted.
He further stated that he had no plans of releasing Mutwe soon.
“I can’t release Eddie now. It will be unfair to me and him. He is learning Runyankore and we are both training for Kabobi.”
The statements and photo have drawn widespread condemnation from NUP leaders and supporters, who are calling Muhoozi’s actions illegal and inhumane.
NUP Secretary General Lewis Rubongoya expressed deep distress after seeing the image of their comrade.
“Shocking. Distressing. Disgusting. The intention is to cause hopelessness and despair, and yes, many of us who know and love Eddie Mutwe couldn’t find sleep this night. But there is a silver lining,” Rubongoya posted on X.
He added that the photo confirmed longstanding suspicions about the treatment of detainees in military custody.
“In this triumphant praise of brutality, the world is provided with evidence that has long been hidden in the shadows. In the past, people were only able to access and take pictures of Makindye Military Baracks and the State Research Bureau after the regimes fell. Today, we’re treated to pictures and gross narrations of what happens in the torture chambers,” he wrote.
