The controversial Ugandan Blogger Fred Kajubi Lumbuye will face 15 charges, Eagle Online has reliably confirmed.
The ardent supporter of the National Unity Platform (NUP), the main opposition party in Uganda, was arrested last week at the Ugandan Embassy in Istanbul where he had gone to renew his passport.
According to Police Spokesperson CP Fred Enanga, they are not certain about the whereabouts of Lumbuye though some reports indicate that he was deported as others show that he is still incarcerated in Turkey.
Enanga said Lumbuye will be leveled with charges of spreading harmful information, inciting violence and protests and other cyber-crimes.
“Until Lumbuye is handed to us; we shall come up with a statement updating the public. Our interest is that we shall be processing the charges along with the 15 box files of cases he has committed over time,” he said.
Lumbuye is accused of peddling lies that President Museveni was ill and admitted to a hospital in Germany. This was followed by the claims that Museveni had died.
During the swearing in ceremony of ministers, Museveni said the country has got another challenge of social media, which urgently needs to be dealt with. He ordered security agencies to hunt down anybody who was trading rumors that he was dead and for those outside the country, their citizenship be revoked.
