Fresh charges are in the offing against remanded anti-corruption crusaders, officials confirmed last evening, hours after President Museveni suggested their initial indictments were provisional.

Mr Kituuma Rusoke, the new police spokesman, in answer to our question on whether new charges were being preferred against the accused, said “that one is there”, and promised to provide details today.

The revelations capped a day of high stakes – resumed demonstrations in Kampala and Arua City, which security quickly neutered, more arrests, and recall by the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of case files of remanded demonstrators.

We were unable to establish the reason for the recall, with one source suggesting that it was to revise the indictment of being ‘idle and disorderly’, which the courts already expunged from the law books.

More than 90 demonstrators separately arrested on Tuesday and yesterday are in prison on additional charges of being common nuisance, pending bail hearing next week.

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