A couple of hours after the UPDF embarrassingly paraded Frank Gashumba yesterday, a renowned media critic and analyst, accusing him of fraud, his daughter Sheila Gashumba took to social media to slam the army and the media, defend her father and dismiss earlier reports that he had been found with illicit drugs.
Ms Gashumba, streaming live on her father’s Facebook account, said she was frustrated by the development.
“I rarely post about my dad. He is more into politics and motivating people and I am not,” she started the post. “In our family we don’t take drugs. In fact my dad has come out to advise people not to take drugs. Drugs are not good.”
In contrast to what the UPDF Deputy spokesperson Col Deo Akiiki told pressyesterday 31th October, Ms Gashumba said her father was arrested from their house 30th october morning.
The army spokesperson had said Gashumba was arrested when he went to CMI offices together with his lawyer to check on his brother who had been arrested. 
The young TV personality says however, that at around 8am before she woke up, their house was raided by armed military officers who came in a van.
“Everyone had a gun, they were in uniform. My maid came running, calling me that my dad was in cuffs,” she said. “I came running and found him in cuffs with the armed men surrounding him. They stood there for 20 minutes,” she said, promising to post video proof of the arrest later.
“They said they wanted to check the house and we let them. They checked my maid’s room and my room.”
Passports
During the parading of Mr Gashumba and another suspect, Innocent Kasumba, who the army accused of trying to defraud a foreign national, the army said they found a number of items including stamps of different government ministries as well as passports belonging to Mr Gashumba.
The first passport, they said was in the names of Gashumba Franco Malimungu and the second in the names of Ssentogo Frank Disan.
But Gashumba’s daughter says the conflict in names is not strange, owing to their family background.
“While I was young I was called Sheila carol Nyinabashumba, but when I joined TV, we realized that it was too long and I changed my name to Gashumba which is a family name,” she said.
“My dad too had the name Franko Malingumu, but when Rwandese came here, they tried to get Ugandan names,” she said.
