NUP’s Supporter Machete On Five Days Hunger Strike – Protests Continued Detention.

The National Unity Platform Supporter Yasin Ssekitoleko aka Machete's health is allegedly deteriorating from the day he embarked on a hunger strike on the 19th of March 2025.

 “For five days now, he has not been taking meals at Kitalya Prison in protest of his continued illegal detention”. Said NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine.

 Machete is one of the nine NUP supporters remanded at kitalya who refused to plead guilty to all crimes.

“After Four years in detention without trial, and following the Supreme Court ruling, he has been protesting the regime's deliberate decision to keep them under illegal detention This evening, prison authorities made a panic call to his mother, asking her to speak with her son on phone and persuade him resume taking meals. According to her, Machete was too weak to even speak elaborately on phone. He is crying out for justice on his behalf and on behalf of the other prisoners of conscience” Posted Bobi Wine on his X handle.