In the just ended My Prison Life series, politicians and individuals alike who have endured imprisonment on account of their political association or suspicion narrated their ordeal and experience under the hands of various security agencies of the past and present regimes.

Former Democratic Party (DP) President General Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere's ex-personal assistant JAMES KAGIMU KIBUUKA now based in UK was part of Dr. Andrew Lutakoome Kayiira's guerrilla force-Uganda Freedom Movement (UFM).

Uganda Young Democrats firebrand MUWANGA KIVUMBI has been in and out of detention. The latest was shortly after the anti-Mabira forest give-away demonstration. In 'My Prison Life' this week, he tells MICHAEL MUBANGIZI that he was sprayed with teargas until he fell unconscious. He also claims to have been detained with a mad man who made noise and banged the door throughout the night.

Uganda Young Democrats firebrand MUWANGA KIVUMBI has been in and out of detention. The latest was shortly after the anti-Mabira forest give-away demonstration. In 'My Prison Life' this week, he tells MICHAEL MUBANGIZI that he was sprayed with teargas until he fell unconscious. He also claims to have been detained with a mad man who made noise and banged the door throughout the night.

JOSEPH MUSASIZI KIFEFE, a brother of FDC president, Dr. Kizza Besigye, one of the People’s Redemption Army suspects has since November 2004 been detained in Kigo, Luzira Prisons, Kampala Central Police Station (CPS), CMI, and Nyamushekyera prison in Bushenyi, on several charges, including treason, terrorism and murder.

I am Dr. George Herman Jjuuko KKOLOKOLO. I was born in 1943 at Villa-Maria in Masaka and I was baptized a Catholic at Narozari (Masaka), my mother’s home place. My father had worked as a Medical Assistant before being appointed chief in Buganda and by the time I was born he was a Ggombolola chief in Kkooki and he retired as a Deputy Ssaza chief.

Former Minister of State for Primary Health, Dr. ALEX KAMUGISHA, was recently detained in Luzira prison together with his colleague Mike Mukula for alleged abuse of office and embezzlement of funds from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI).
In 'My Prison Life' this week, Dr. Kamugisha tells MICHAEL MUBANGIZI why he thinks his arrest was unfair and "untidy", and was intended to embarrass him.

Former Minister of State for Health, Soroti Municipality MPs currently NRM vice chairman (eastern) MIKE MUKULA was recently remanded to Luzira Prison together with his colleague Dr. Alex Kamugisha by Chief Magistrate Margaret Tibulya for abuse of office and embezzlement of funds for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI).

Aruu County MP ODONGA OTTO was recently arrested together with Kampala Central MP, Erias Lukwago, after they organised a demonstration against the infamous stick-wielding ‘Kiboko Squad’ that beat people during the Mabira protest.

Kitgum Woman MP Beatrice Atim Anywar was the only woman detained at Kampala Central Police Station (CPS) and later Luzira Prison for participating in the April 12 anti-Mabira forest give-away protest that turned racist and violent.

In June 2005, Acle’o Kalinga travelled with a friend to Uganda.
Their mission was simple. To pick his friend’s sick mother and drive her to Kigali for treatment.

OLARA OTUNNU is a former UN Special Representative for children in armed conflict areas. Now president of LBL Foundation for Children, an independent organisation devoted to promoting protection, hope, healing and rehabilitation for children in communities devastated by war, he tells our special correspondent KIWANUKA LAWRENCE in New York why he thinks the government is out to witch-hunt him.

DP publicist BETTY NAMBOOZE BAKIREKE was between February 2003 and January 2004 detained in Luzira on corruption charges. But Justice Okumu Wengi acquitted her after 11 months in jail.

SGT. GITTA MUSOKE-RA 54,262 has been in and out of prison over the last decade. He was abducted and forced to join NRA guerillas as a child, fought Alice Lakwena's Holy Spirit Movement, alongside RPA in Rwanda, and later in DR Congo.

86-year-old CUTHERBERT OBWANGOR was a lawmaker in the protectorate government under Governor Sir Andrew Cohen, before becoming a member of the first political party, Uganda National Congress (UNC).

UPC activist NIGHT KULABAKO is no stranger to prison but the most pronounced period is her seven-year incarceration in Luzira on murder charges (from May 1986 to August 1993).