SFC arrests MUK student for waving a poster asking M7 not to amend age limit

SFC arrests MUK student for waving a poster asking M7 not to amend age limit

By Spear Team

A  student leader at Makerere university was placed behind bars by the Special Forces Command  for waving a poster that is against amending article 102 (b) of the constitution,  during the Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture on Thursday.

Martin Musiime, also a Representative of Mitchell Hall to Makerere Students’ Guild Council, while attending the event in the University main hall, he  allegedly timed when the president was about to give his closing remarks and stood up waving a poster with words “Leave Article 102(b)”.

He was whisked away by the Special Forces commandos and later detained at Makerere University Police Station under file reference number 28/31/08/2017.

Sources at Makerere police station stressed that he was charged with inciting violation and transferred to Wandegeya police Station. Our efforts to get a comment from the Wandegeya police boss were futile as he failed to pick our calls.

Earlier, at the same function, MP Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert asked Museveni to address the challenges that are facing the current generation in order to better youth lives in the country.

“Mandela is quoted to have said that it is upon a generation to be great, you can be the generation, so I want us to take a lesson as young people of this country, that every generation has its own challenges.

For Mandela it was Apartheid, for Nyerere and Nkrumah’s it was colonialism and for Museveni and his comrades it was bad politics and instability, for us it is unemployment, exclusion and corruption.”

Bobi wine was reacting to president Museveni’s comments of which he criticized youths for spending a lot of time discussing European leagues and fighting to take over power and advised them to pick a leaf from Mandela.