Eddie Mutwe, Achilleo Kivumbi, Gadafi Mugumya, and Grace Wakabi Smart have been granted bail, with each required to pay shs5millions in cash.
However, Mutwe and Kivumbi will remain in custody because of separate charges they are facing before the Kawempe courts.

The four are members of the National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu’s security team and have spent prolonged periods in detention over different criminal cases.  Mutwe whose real name is Edward Ssebuufu, was abducted in Mukono District on April 27th 2025 and held incommunicado for days.

He was slater produced before Masaka Grade One Magistrates court and charged with aggravated robbery, robbery and assault over an incident alleged to have occurred during the May 2024 burial of businessman Pascal Ssekasamaba in Lwengo district.  His detention attracted widespread attention after then Chef of Defence Forces Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba acknowledges that Mutwe had held in the basement.      When he was produced in court on May 5th 2025, he appeared to have difficulty walking and supported by two people.

Kivumbi, Mugwanya and Wakabi were separately arrested in February 2025n and charged alongside Mutwe in the Masaka case.  The prosecution alleges that the group robbed a a journalist of a mobile phone and sweater and assaulted other people during the burial.  The accused have denied the allegations.
Their arrest followed a period in which NUP said several of its supporters had been abducted and held incommunicado.

In February 2025, party president Kyagulanyi said Kivumbi, Mugumya and Wakabi had been picked up during a security raid on the party’s offices and moved through different locations before being transferred to masaka.   The four sought bail in the Masaka case, but the court in August 2025 rejected their application, saying that although the bail requirements had been met, the court was not satisfied that the accused would not interfere with witnesses.

Mutwe and Kivumbi also faced case before Kawempe Magistrate Court involving allegations of unlawful military style drilling at NUP offices in Makerere kavule.   In October 2025, Kawempe court dismissed an application for mandatory bail, it lacked jurisdiction to entertain the application.

The last bail decision therefore does not immediately secure the release of all four.  While Mugumya and Wakabi are expected to benefit from the bail granted in the case under consideration, Mutwe and Kivumbi remain in custody because of the separate Kawempe charges.      The accused persons remain presumed innocent until proven guilty.