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Kampala, Uganda
A Police officer, Gilbert Arinaitwe Bwana, that pepper sprayed Dr Kizza Besigye after smashing the window of his car with a pistol twelve years ago, has been remanded to Luzira prison.
Arinaitwe Bwana, who in 2015 was also in court over family violence, is this time around facing charges of aggravated trafficking in person. His victim alleges that she was subjected to sexual violence too.
Arinaitwe on Thursday afternoon appeared before Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrates Court presided over by Chief Magistrate Ronald Kayizzi who read to him one charge which he has denied.
The Court has heard that Detective Superintendent of Police Arinaitwe and others still at large on June 23rd 2023 at Nalumunye Bandwe Kyengera Town Council in the Wakiso District, recruited or maintained or confined or transported or transferred or harboured, facilitated or received a 23-year woman (names withheld) by means of threat or use of force other forms of coercion or deception or abuse of power or position of vulnerability for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labour or involuntarily servitude or debt bondage.
After denying the charges, Arinaitwe who is attached to the Crime Intelligence of Police through his lawyer James Njogu applied for bail on grounds that the offence with which he is charged with was bailable and that he is the sole breadwinner of his young family.