“They squeezed his private parts and hit them with a baton. They tied his arms with hand-cuffs and stepped on them, which ate into his skin,” Kyagulanyi said.
On his return in company of a team with which he travelled to Masaka Main Prison to check on their comrades Edward Ssebuufu also known as Eddie Mutwe, Achileo Kivumbi, Mugumya Gaddafi, and Wakabi Grace, the President of the National Unity Platform (NUP) Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu a.k.a Bobi Wine posted a report from the visit.
Kyagulanyi travelled along others; Eddie Mutwe’s mother, his wife and 8-month old baby and in Kyagulanyiu’s own words, Eddie Mutwe was reserved in his words for fear of traumatizing the women but at least managed to reveal that he no longer sleeps as he keeps getting visions of his tormentors attacking him.
“He is in great pain. He was brutalized in the most barbaric manner. He was electrocuted. He was subjected to water boarding, while they stuffed a piece of cloth in his mouth and tied it around his neck. They squeezed his private parts and hit them with a baton. They tied his arms with hand-cuffs and stepped on them, which ate into his skin. They put other cuffs on his legs. They flogged him four times every day for all the time he spent under incommunicado detention. The first torture session started early morning,” Kyagulanyi’s report stated in part.
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He said that they gave him only one meal a day – posho and beans and that when he asked for water, he was told to drink the water which he was sitting in – which he said was very dirty and contained traces of blood. He added that there was a loud speaker in the room, which they switched on whenever torture sessions started, so that his loud cries could not be heard by anyone.
Eddie Mutwe’s tormentors are said to have forced him to put on Museveni’s t-shirt for the time he was there, put him at gunpoint and commanded him to kneel down and swear allegiance to Museveni and his son Gen. Muhoozi kainerugaba while they recorded him, and stripped him naked and took his pictures. They shaved his beard violently while mocking him.
The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Muhoozi Keinerugaba, allegedly came on the third day and personally participated in the torture, and mockingly challenged Eddie to fight him while handcuffed, if he thinks he is strong.
One of the operatives one day greeted him in Runyankore saying, “Amagara?” which means “How is life?” Not knowing the response, he responded in Luganda, saying they hadn’t given him Amagara. They mocked him, asked how he could not know Runyakore and started beating him without mercy. He was asked several questions in Runyakore but didn’t know how to answer. They would laugh at his ignorance of the language and beat him. He wondered where they got the joy from. One of them spat on his face, and that hurt him deeply.
He told his visitors that most of the beatings targeted his feet, which swelled up. “It was like I had elephantiasis by the time I left that place,” he said. He is only healing now, but he is still unable to walk unaided. He said he was jabbed with three injections; with substances he does not know up to now.
After all the torture, they would ask him to do press-ups and frog jumps. Eddie Mutwe says he was detained in a basement of what looked like a good home and later on taken to another military facility. During interrogation, he would be blind folded and asked who we are to challenge Museveni.