The ruling National Resistance Movement has called for the due legal process against its Rubaga division chairperson Abdallah Kitatta saying the party doesn’t condone criminality.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the NRM Secretary General, Justine Kasule Lumumba pledged to use Kitatta’s arrest to monitor the ways of party leaders.
“As NRM, we don’t condone criminality and we cherish the rule of law. The incident is however an eye opener for us at the Secretariat to start keeping a keen eye on all those in the party leadership positions”, read the statement.
It further stated that “the basis of the NRM core principles of Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Social-Economic Transformation and Democracy is the human being which we should all treasure”.
Kitatta the patron of the controversial Boda Boda 2010, a city cyclist group, was arrested on Saturday in an operation by the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence over the murder of Case Hospital accountant, Francis Ekulangar and to aid investigations of various crimes which have been committed in the city and neighbouring areas.
The operation saw other leaders of the dreaded ‘boda boda’ group arrested during a Saturday raid of Top Radio by ISO where some of the members of Boda Boda 20120 used the media to incite its membership against the arrest of other members.