Daily Monitor
Wednesday January 13 2021
A user updates Facebook’s WhatsApp application on his mobile phone on November 6, 2020. PHOTO | AFP
Summary
While delivering his address to the nation ahead of the Thursday polls, Mr Museveni was bitter with California-based Facebook for refusing to heed the appeals by the government to release the social media pages of his supporters. He said the result is that his government has also shut down the internet
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President Museveni last evening confirmed closure of social media channels ahead of tomorrow’s General Election.
The President, who was addressing the country yesterday apologised for inconveniences caused to social media users and blamed the shutdown on one of the international groups that decided to block the NRM message senders, targeting them. He mentioned Face book.
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Kampala Uganda’s President Museveni on Tuesday confirmed closure of social media channels ahead of tomorrow’s General Election.
Museveni, who was addressing the country yesterday apologised for inconveniences caused to social media users and blamed the shutdown on one of the international groups that decided to block the NRM message senders, targeting them. He mentioned Face book.
Last week, owners of 50 Facebook accounts in support of the President were closed.
While delivering his address to the nation ahead of the Thursday polls, Mr Museveni was bitter with California-based Facebook for refusing to heed the appeals by the government to release the social media pages of his supporters. He said the result is that his government has also shut down the internet
Mr Museveni who is seeking the sixth-elective term in office, said that his NRM government is well-informed and therefore, doesn’t need lecturers from anybody
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Ugandan presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine is led into a vehicle by riot policemen in Luuka district, eastern Uganda. [Reuters]
Uganda s presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine was on Tuesday forced to end his interview with a local radio station, Hot 96, prematurely after the military allegedly raided his Kampala home.
Wine, 38, of National Unity Platform, is among the 10 candidates challenging President Yoweri Museveni in the Thursday s presidential election. He has been vocal with how the military has been using excessive force on his party members.
“So I am sorry even right now as we speak, we are being raided by the military. I have to end the interview because I can see soldiers beating up my security guards. I have to go down and give it attention,” Bobi Wine told Hot 96 broadcasting from Nairobi, before ending the call.