This investigative website can exclusively report that Sharif Najja the Personal Assistant to National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine) has rushed into exile to survive arrest.
Sources disclosed that days to 15 January presidential elections, Najja was briefed by friends in security that he has been placed on security radar and very soon he was going to be arrested and added on the list of the many party leaders and supporters who are currently in prison.
“We supported him to first excuse himself and move out of the country because in the 2021 presidential elections, he was among the many NUP supporters who were arrested and spent months at Kitalya and Luzira prisons. We cannot doubt that information because his mother is working in State House,” a source said.
We have established that Najja travelled on land to Kigali where he boarded to South Africa and sources allege that he is organizing his asylum papers to proceed to Sweden, German or Canada.
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Sources added that Najja a brother to Nasif Najja the NUP candidate on Wakiso district chairperson position is among the top confidants to Bobi Wine and when he was imprisoned in 2021, Bobi Wine put up a spirited fight to make sure that he is released on court bail.
If the situation at home remains a threat to Najja, he is likely to join thousands of Ugandans who are surviving in exile because of threats from Kampala. Some of the include: Supreme Court justice Dr. Esther Kitimbo Kisakye, Uganda Law Society president Isaac Ssemakadde, academia Dr. Stella Nyanzi, lawyer Kakwenza Rukirabashaija and a number of others
Highly placed sources in NUP revealed that Bobi Wine and other top party leaders are also scared of being arrested and imprisoned and they are planning to first excuse themselves as the situation normalizes and the dust that has risen because of the elections settles.
The development comes at a time when President Museveni is tipped to meet the Inter Religious Council and have a discussion on how government can reduce on the force it is using when dealing with NUP foot soldiers.
In his address after winning the 2021 polls, President Museveni explained that Uganda is a country of martyrs noting that in some tribes, people are not scared of dying for what they believe in. He gave the example of the religious martyrs, political martyrs and others
The President accused Bobi Wine and incarcerated opposition strongman Dr Kizza Besigye of being influenced by foreign agents who are using them to destabilise Uganda as they did in Libya.
He revealed that on polling day, he met young people from the ghettos of Kampala who revealed to him opposition plans to put the entire country on fire as a way of protesting the election results.
This is not be going to be the first time that the President is meeting religious leaders after a hotly contested election. In 2011, he met them and tried to convince them to compromise Besigye to have a discussion with him.
