Mukono municipality member of parliament Betty Nambooze has been released by police after over a week in incarceration.

Nambooze, who was being held at her sickbed at Kiruddu hospital, faces charges of offensive communication over comments she made in relation to the assassination of Arua municipality MP Ibrahim Abiriga.

Abiriga was gunned down about three weeks ago near his home in Kawanda, Wakiso district together with his brother Saidi Butele Kongo. There has been growing concern from medics and the general public that her continued detention was jeopardising her health.

Nambooze’s medical report indicates that she had suffered spinal cord compression and had undergone posterior lumbar decompression and fusion, a surgical procedure that joins two or more bones together into one solid bone. This was during a raid on parliament by presidential guards last year during debate on the constitutional amendment to lift presidential age limits.

Nambooze earlier said that she was scheduled for medical review Manipal Spine Care Centre in India on June 15. but her travel plans were thwarted when she got arrested.

Early this week, police denied knowledge of any medical referral given to Nambooze to undergo further treatment in India. Police spokesperson Emilian Kayima said that the police was awaiting a communication from Mulago national referral hospital on the next step.

Addressing the media on Monday, the executive director of Mulago hospital, Dr Baterana Byaruhanga said “Nambooze is really sick” and needs to travel abroad for further treatment.

She has now been released on bond and urged to abide by the conditions of the release. Upon her treatment, Nambooze is tasked to appear before the commissioner homicide department at Kibuli next month on July 29.

A copy of the bond letter dated June 27 indicates that Nambooze will continue to attend to police calls by police of which acting contrary, would cost her an unspecified sum of money of cash.