Uganda: Lukwago Remanded to Luzira

Uganda: Lukwago Remanded to Luzira

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- The Makindye Magistrate's Court has remanded the former Lord Mayor of Kampala, Erias Lukwago, and the President of the People's Front for Freedom, to Luzira Prison on charges of misprision of treason, days after his arrest.

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