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Former Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) boss in charge of external relations and also the former African Union policy adviser Michael Katungi Mpeirwe has been transferred back to Murchison Bay Prison referral hospital.Ono Bwino recently reported that there was panic in C-4 ward when Katungi collapsed and was rushed to the prison hospital but after a day, he stabilised and was admitted back to the lavish B-1 award where inmates of high status are detained.However, sources said that last week, Katungi was transferred back to the hospital where he is currently residing.Sources said that the decision to send Katungi back to the prison hospital was an order from above because his family and friends were scared of his health conditions and he needed a tight monitoring of his health by the prison’s medical doctors.Sources added that medical doctors at the prison’s hospital told him that the collapse was caused by high blood pressure. They advised him to stop overthinking and panicking.The development comes days after Justice Simon Peter Kinobe of the Civil Division of the High Court stayed the extradition proceedings presided over by Buganda Road Chief Magistrate Ritah Kidasa Wanyama until determination of the application Katungi filed challenging the ongoing extradition proceedings.The United States government requested the Uganda government to extradite Katungi to the United States to face drug trafficking, arms smuggling and terrorism-related offences.According to the indictment filed in the United States, Katungi is accused, together with Bulgarian national Peter Dimitrov Mirchev, Kenyan national Elisha Odhiambo Asumo and Tanzanian national Subiro Osmund Mwapinga, of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, allegedly knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the drugs would be unlawfully imported into the United States.The four are also accused of conspiring to possess firearms, including machine guns and destructive devices, in furtherance of a drug trafficking offence, and of conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organisation.According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, investigators allege that from at least September 2022, the suspects conspired to supply military-grade weapons to the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), one of Mexico’s most powerful transnational criminal organisations.The alleged weapons included machine guns, rocket launchers, grenades, sniper rifles, anti-personnel mines, night-vision equipment, anti-aircraft weapons and surface-to-air missile systems.U.S. authorities allege the suspects believed the cartel intended to use the weapons to facilitate large-scale cocaine trafficking into the United States.On February 20, 2025, the CJNG was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organisation under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224.According to the indictment, Mirchev allegedly recruited Asumo to obtain a fraudulent End-User Certificate (EUC) from an African country to conceal the intended destination of the weapons. Asumo is then alleged to have recruited Katungi, who in turn recruited Mwapinga.Prosecutors allege the group obtained an End-User Certificate from Tanzania authorising the importation of AK-47 rifles. Using that documentation, Mirchev and others allegedly exported a test shipment of 50 AK-47 assault rifles, magazines and ammunition from Bulgaria, intending that the weapons would ultimately reach the CJNG.The indictment further alleges that the group later planned to supply weapons worth approximately Shs224bn including anti-aircraft systems and drones, while using falsified arms control documentation to disguise the true end user.Court records also indicate that Mirchev had previously been implicated in supplying arms to convicted international arms trafficker Viktor Bout., https://onobwino.com/plu-boss-katungi-transferred-back-to-prison-hospital-family-members-scared-of-his-life/
