KAMPALA, Uganda The National Unity Platform (NUP) political party lawyer Abed Nasser Mudiobole, who went missing on 16th Friday, has been charged with “unlawful drilling” for taking part in the people power parade.

Mudiobole was arrested by unknown persons from Gold Rock Hotel in Kyaliwajjala and the persons who arrested him informed one Patricia that they were attached to Special Investigations Unit

The people power parade that was conducted by NUP supporters on February 12, 2025, at party headquarters in Makerere Kavule was part of the 42nd birthday celebrations of NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.

Mudiobole, who is aspiring to be a Member of Parliament for Iganga Municipality on the NUP ticket, was charged in Iganga Magistrates Court today.

“Six days after he was abducted and held incommunicado, our comrade, advocate Mudiobole Abed Nasser, has been brought to Iganga Magistrate’s Court, where he is being charged with ‘unlawful drilling” for apparently participating in a People Power parade! And yet the NRM MPs are passing other bogus laws,” said the NUP Secretary General David Lewis Rubongoya.

According to the charge sheets, “Mudiobole Abeid Nasser and others still at large, on the 5th of April 2025 at Kasolo village, Bulowooza parish, Bulamagi sub-county, Kigulu South, in the Iganga district, while at a meeting of the National Unity Platform mobilisers and supporters, participated in the training and drilling sessions of these National Unity Platform mobilisers in the use of Arms of Practice of Military Exercises, movements or evolutions without the permission of the minister.

Yesterday, the Uganda Law Society filed a habeas corpus directing the Attorney General to produce Advocate Mudiobole before the High Court in Kampala, Civil Division, and also ordered the immediate release of Mudiobole from detention.

This comes after the Uganda Law Society, led by their Vice President Anthony Asiimwe, visited the Special Investigations Unit Kireka division headquarters, where he was arrested, but he was not found.