Kampala (dpa) – Members of the Ugandan opposition accused the police of arresting scores of people without reason on Saturday. “The number of people who have so far been rounded up is in the hundreds,” opposition politician Samuel Muyizi told dpa. “The arrests are still going on but this is an illegal exercise. They are dumping people on pick-ups and I am getting calls from the arrested people from different police stations in the city,” he said. According to Kampala police spokesman Iddi Ibin Ssenkumbi, the arrests were part of a drive to gather evidence about the death of a policeman on Wednesday. The officer was stoned to death when police tried to break up a protest which they said was illegal. Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested briefly during the same demonstration. “We have a group investigating what happened on Saturday and it was pertinent that we revisit the scene of the incident and get people who would help in obtaining further evidence,” Ssenkumbi told dpa. “About 50 people were arrested,” he said. But Muyizi said the arrests are generating fear. “They are connecting it to the death of the policeman but they are just intimidating people. They are putting fear into people and this will bring more chaos,” he said. Opposition protests have been frequent in Kampala since President Yoweri Museveni was re-elected in February 2011, in an election that the opposition said was rigged. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/pO09P Tags: Arrests, Opposition, Police, Uganda Section: East Africa, Latest News
