Protests in Kampala after Bobi Wine’s arrest; detention and harassment of opposition sympathizers 

By Correspondent 

There was tension in Kampala yesterday, as security forces arrested and briefly detained opposition presidential looser Robert Kyagulngyi Ssentamu also known as Bobi Wine.

Bobi wine was later in the afternoon driven at breakneck speed, in heavily guarded security vehicles and dumped to his military guarded home located at Magere Kiira Municipality just in the City outskirts.

Bobi Wine’s arrest and home detention, followed his ceaseless social media calls for the public to join him and protest against what he termed “the continued arrest, torture and harassment of political opposition supporters and sympathizers by some rogue national security forces”.

Mr Kyagulanyi, calls for protest, targeted Kampala’s downtown down-trodden youths and the business community to walk and join him at Kampala’s City Square and demand for the release of “thousands” of his supporters, purportedly under detention and being tortured in different police and military facilities countrywide.

The Police mouthpiece and security sources downplayed his move and stated that, Bobi Wine was simply planning to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni’s legally elected Government, using unlawful and riotous means.

Alike to Bobi Wine’s arrest, other key opposition leaders, supporters and sympathizers’ homes were also being surrounded by the military under similar detentions formations.

At the time of filing this story, officials at Kyagulanyi’s National Unity Platform (NUP) in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, confirmed Wine’s continued arrest and detention at home