NUP Supporter Remanded For Disturbing Peace and Right to Privacy of President

Teddy Nalubowa, alias Tracy Manule Bobiholic a tik toker and an ardent  supporter of the National Unity Platform Political Party  has been remanded to Luzira Prison on charges of offensive communication.

Nalubowa on Friday afternoon was arraigned before the Buganda Road Grade One Magistrate Marion Mangeni where she pleaded not guilty to the charges against her.

Prosecution alleges that on August 23rd 2022 at Ndeeba Rubaga Division in the Kampala District, Nalubowa willfully and repeatedly used electronic communication on Facebook and TikTok to disturb the Peace or right of Privacy of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

She is accused of uttering statements while  celebrating the death of former security minister, the late Gen Elly Tumwine and linking his death to the President  Museveni.

Evidence before court shows Nalubowa stating, “Tumwine, finally you have died but you died long time and your boss President Museveni will also die, you will die one by one and we shall celebrate”.

According to the Prosecutors, there was no purpose for legitimate communication in this.

Prosecution led by Ivan Kyazze informed Court that inquiries in this matter are almost complete, and Nalubowa who did not have legal representation was subsequently remanded until September 26th 2022.

The bush war General of the National Resistance Army-NRA   General Elly Tumwine died last month after succumbing to cancer, according to President Museveni.
Nalubowa has been charged almost two weeks after she was reported by her family and the National Unity Platform President Robert Kyagulanyi as having been missing since August 28th 2022.

Nalubowa is not the only person who has been charged before Buganda Road court on charges related to disturbing the peace of President Museveni.

In 2018, former Makerere University Researcher Dr Stellah Nyanzi was charged with offensive communication after posting a boorish poem attacking Esteeri Kokundeka the late mother of Museveni, and was convicted and sentenced.

The same Court in 2022 charged novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija on similar charges after posting on his twitter handle several posts among them one alleging that the  President’s son Lt General Muhoozi, the Commander of the Land Forces was obese.  Kakwenza has since fled the country.