Bukedde television correspondent from Entebbe Kigongo Ssebalamu has been assaulted for covering a village meeting that police was addressing without securing its clearance.
Bukedde television is part of the vision group a company with which government owns majority shares.
Ssebalamu was arrested on 20th/June/2011 at 5:30pm at a village meeting to which he had been invited by residents of Kitara, Katabi Sub County Wakiso district to offer coverage.
The meeting was intended to resolve matters concerning witch craft where one resident corpol Male Namukangula was being accused of being at the center of the problem.
Eye witness Kato Suleiman said that Ssebalamu was roughed up and clobbered by a group of police men using batons and gun handles after refusing to stop filming the event.
Kato said, the Officer in Charge of Kisubi police post Ahmed Madiri grabbed Ssebalamu by the collar and slapped him as other police men kicked him.
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