Outspoken Makerere university researcher, Dr Stella Nyanzi who was recently stopped from leaving the country allegedly on police orders was been arrested and released without charge on Friday.
Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Emilian Kayima has confirmed the development without giving further details, several media reports said but were latter refuted the arrest talk via social networking site, Twitter.
Ms Nyanzi was apprehended today and is in detention at yet to be named facility, hours after she answered the First Lady who doubles as the Minister of Education and Sports, Ms Janet Museveni’s decision not get into any kind of ‘confrontation’ with Nyanzi thus decided to forgive her.
The academic instead decided to strike online and said she had ‘rejected forgiveness from tinier brains.”
Detectives on March 7, 2017 questioned Dr Stella over her acerbic facebook posts in which she attacked both President Museveni and First Lady Janet for allegedly running down Uganda. Police did not prefer any immediate charges against her or announce their next course of action.
Dr Nyanzi was recently recalled to Makerere University following her suspension last year after she was found guilty of gross misconduct.
It all started after she clashed with Professor Mahmood Mamdani, the Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research-MISR. She has been posted to the law school.
