Nine Students Charged For Being A Common Nuisance and Remanded To Luzira Prisons.

Nine students from various universities have been charged for being a common nuisance and remanded to Luzira Prisons.

They include Imran Ntabazi, a student at Gulu University, David Musiri and Vincent Lubega Nsamba from Makerere University, and six Kyambogo University students identified as Gerald Wenani, Gonga Akisi, Marktom Kajubi, Benjamin Akiso, Alphonse Nkuruziza and Alex Waswa Lyazi.

The nine were arrested during protests held in Kampala on Tuesday to support a resolution recently passed by the European Union Parliament to delay the East African oil Pipeline over reports of human rights violations and environmental concerns.

The students who were dressed in university gowns armed with placards and banners calling for a halt of the oil pipeline project, were intercepted by police around Kingdom Kampala Building on their way to the EU offices at Crested Towers. They were expected to hand over a petition asking the government to halt the EACOP project until safeguards are implemented to stop human rights violations and environmental degradation.