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Uganda charges two MPs with murder

Uganda charges two MPs with murder

ELIAS BIRYABAREMA UGANDAN prosecutors have charged two lawmakers allied to opposition leader Bobi Wine with the murder of three people, following a spate of unsolved killings that have stoked widespread public alarm. Wine's opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) dismissed the prosecution of the two MPs, Muhammad Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana, both NUP members, as a politically motivated attempt by authorities to smear the party. Appearing at a court in Masaka town in central Uganda, south of the capital Kampala, the two were charged with the three murders and remanded in prison, Joel Ssenyonyi, a fellow NUP lawmaker and the party's…
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