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Congrats Bobi Wine, NUP, but the mountain just got steeper
January 21, 2021 Written by YUSUF SERUNKUMA
Dear reader, if you thought I was the most prepared for another of Yoweri Museveni’s crowning – because I have consistently argued here that this so-called election would be simply another enthronement – you are wrong.
I was the least prepared. I felt vulnerable more than ever. The long-winding queues of new voters, men and women arguably in their teens and early twenties, were a sight to behold.
The excitement and euphoria as Bobi Wine made his way to the polling station, threw his ballot into the box, did the cross, and then the celebratory fist made me forget my predictions of another Museveni thugg
Soldiers have stormed the home of Bobi Wine, the Ugandan opposition leader has said, as votes continue to be counted in the country’s election. “We are under siege,” the pop star turned politician tweeted. “The military has jumped over the fence and has now taken control of our home.” President Yoweri Museveni has taken an early lead as votes are counted in Uganda’s most keenly watched election in years, while opposition figures said the vote.
Lawyer Nicholas Opiyo granted Shs 15m cash bail
December 31, 2020 Nicholas Opiyo appearing in court via video link from Kitalya prison
Renowned human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo has been granted a Shs 15 million cash bail after spending more than a week in custody.
Opiyo, the executive director of Chapter Four Uganda, a human rights organization was arrested last week on Tuesday with two others from a restaurant in Kamwokya in Kampala on allegations of money laundering. The arrest was in relation to a sum of $340,000 (Shs 1.2 billion) which was channelled through an account in Absa bank.
Prosecution alleges that Opiyo received $340,000 through Chapter Four Uganda on October 8, at a branch of Absa bank in Kampala, well knowing that the funds were proceeds of crime.