Police arrest Ugandan Bobi Wine during peaceful protest

Ugandan politician and singer, Robert Kyagulanyi popularly known as Bobi Wine, has been arrested while leading a peaceful demonstration demanding the release of hundreds of his supporters who went missing after they were arrested during and after the January 14 election.

The runner-up in the presidential poll, which saw Yoweri Museveni re-elected, was on Monday intercepted by police at City Square in Kampala.

He was leading a group of his supporters and MPs-elect in demanding the freedom of his supporters, most of whom he said were kidnapped and tortured by security operatives.

“Bobi Wine [was] arrested as he led MPs and other leaders in a peaceful protest against the abduction, torture and murder of his supporters. The protest was taking place at City Square, Kampala,” his social media handler posted.

“They were taken to Kampala Central Police Station.”

The arrest comes hours after President Museveni, in his televised address on Sunday night, warned Wine and members of his National Unity Platform (NUP) against causing chaos ahead of his swearing ceremony in May.

“They have been planning to stop the swearing-in of the President. They won’t. They plan all sorts of crazy things, including killing their own opposition people, [in order] to say it is the government,” the President said.

Edited by Olajumoke Adeleke