Exclusively speaking to Top Secrets, family members of imprisoned founding commander of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) Jamil Mukulu Kyagulanyi have revealed that their relative is in danger after being attacked by a strange disease which is threatening his life.
Jeniffer Bukirwa, a sister to Mukulu has narrated that on Wednesday this week, she together with other family members visited their brother at Upper Maximum Security Prison Luzira and found him crying in excruciating pain.
“He cannot walk properly; he told us that he has informed the prison authority about his health condition but nothing has been done. The problem we have is that we are no longer allowed to take him medicine because the prison authority told us that they have enough medicine to treat him,” Bukirwa said.
She added that Mukulu feels much pain in one of the legs and he told them that the pain is a result of the torture he was subjected to when was just brought back into the country after being arrested in Tanzania in 2015.
Bukirwa said that Mukulu told them that he was badly beaten by security operatives in Nalufenya police station who were working on the directives of the former Inspector General of police Gen Edward Kale Kayihura.
He told them that they used torture as a tool to force him to reveal his secrets and those of his rebel group.
Bukirwa admitted that Mukulu has also been suffering from other diseases related to his old age like diabetes which have been handled well, however the current pain he has is very scary.
She pleaded to prison authorities to take action and start giving medication to him.
However, when contacted, Frank Baine the prisons spokesperson rubbished the allegations.
“Those people are just looking for media attention, you know it has been a while when no one is talking or writing about Mukulu, now they want to bring him back to the news. The man is well and if anything has happened to him I would have been in the know” Baine said.
Other sources inside Upper Prison said that Mukulu might have also suffered loneliness because he is not allowed to talk to other inmates since he is detained at the East Wing.
Sources in the judiciary revealed to this website that Mukulu’s trial at the War Crimes Division of the High Court is expected to kick-off this year and they are waiting for approval of the budget for the trial.
Mukulu and other co-accused are facing terrorism, murder and attempted murder charges which he denied.
