Two Journalists in Uganda Kidnapped

Herbert Mugagga, one of the two journalists

Striking workers of Sugar Corporation kidnapped two journalists and took them hostage for a number of  hours. Herbert Mugagga, a reporter with KFM and Moses Mawejje of Radio Simba were grabbed and beaten by angry workers who had hidden in the sugar plantation while they were riding on a motorcycle. The motorcycle was also impounded from them and "kept" by the workers. Tension gripped the other journalists who work with the two after a number of efforts to get a word from them while in the middle of the sugar plantation were futile.However, they were later released after pleading with them and producing identity that they were journalists because the workers mistook them for spies sent by their employers.I spoke to Herbert [pictured] and he said that he had sustained a few injuries but was still recovering the shock narrating that the strikers were armed with matchets and sticks which they used against them.