By witnessradio.org Team
22nd/December/2020; Kampala – Uganda – two members of Witness Radio – Uganda legal team alongside Kampala based human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo have been abducted this afternoon by five armed and unidentified men believed to be government security agents from Kampala and their whereabouts are still unknown.
Esomu Simon Peter, Odur Anthony, and Nicholas Opiyo were picked from Lamaro restaurant in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb while having lunch, and no official communication yet from the government about the arrest of victim lawyers.
At the time of their arrest, the legal team was in the final stages of filing a case challenging the illegal eviction of more than 300 families by a project funded by the World Bank and being implemented by Kampala Capital City Authority, (KCCA).
KCCA secured a one year loan of 60 billion Uganda shillings (equivalent to about USD 17 million) from the World Bank and the International Development Association (IDA) to construct a 2.58 KM, Lubigi water drainage channel, which stretches from Kawaala Zone II, Rubaga Division, Kampala district.
witnesradio.org condemns in the strongest terms possible the arrest of their lawyers while in line of duties.
