Police and military raid MP Mpuuga's Masaka home, arrest NUP MPs and candidates

The Independent reports that a joint police and military team raided the Masaka home of MP Mathias Mpuuga and arrested him, MP Florence Namayanja, NUP candidates Evan Kanyike, Juliet Kakande Nakabuye and Dr Abed Bwanika, and their assistants, who were taken to Masaka central police station. An assistant said officers broke the gate and fired teargas into the house while the group was planning a campaign meeting; the regional police spokesperson said the arrests followed intelligence that they were planning anarchy in the town.