The bodyguard to National Unity Platform president, Robert Kyagulanyi , Edward Ssebuufu, widely known as Eddy Mutwe has told court he is feeling too much pain following the torture inflicted onto him while in military detention.
Mutwe who was returning to court after being charged over robbery on Tuesday told the presiding Masaka Grade One Magistrate Abdullah Kayiza that the pain he has is unbearable.
“I take 12 pain killers every day. I’m dying… I feel I’m dying… If they must cut off my arms, let it be done so that I can get some treatment. I’m dying from pain,” Mutwe said in court.
He displayed torture marks allover his body, inflicted on him during the detention.
Speaking with his voice trembling and shivering, the bodyguard to Kyagulanyi took a swipe at the trial magistrate for not allowing journalists attend the previous court session where he was brought in limping following torture.
“You decided to send me to prison for a petty offence of robbery of a jumper but I felt I already served my sentence because of the torture I went through. It is appalling that you never ordered that I am taken to get medical attention. Apart from the 12 pain killers every day, I have never got any other medication. I feel my life is going.”
According to the amended charge sheet, he is accused alongside Achilleo Kivumbi, Gadafi Mugumya, Grace Wakabi Smart, and others still at large, of robbing Margaret Kayondo, a journalist with Radio Simba.
They allegedly took a sweater from the journalist and her worth worth shs730,000.
The group is also accused of assaulting an NBS TV journalist, Zainab Namusaazi and destroyed her camera.
Eddie Mutwe’s lawyers a few weeks ago said he was subjected to brutal torture using electric cables, electrocuted, and that his genitals were pulled repeatedly.
However, his lawyers maintain that the charges are politically motivated and designed to silence dissent within the opposition.
