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Ugandan presidential candidate, Bobi Wine, has been arrested along with his campaign team.
This is according to a post shared on his official Twitter account on Wednesday, December 30, 2020.
“Bobi Wine and his entire campaign team arrested in Kalangala! Media blocked,” the post said.
The arrest comes days after Wine announced the ‘murder’ of a member of his security team, Francis Senteza Kalibala.
Wine who is a Member of Parliament representing Kyadondo County East constituency alleged that Kalibala was run over by a “military-police truck.”
“I regret to announce the murder of my security team member Francis Senteza Kalibala aka Frank,” he wrote on Twitter.
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Reuters |
December 28th 2020 at 08:08:16 GMT +0300
Ugandan presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi also known as Bobi Wine sits inside the courtroom in Iganga, eastern Uganda November 20, 2020. [File, Reuters]
Ugandan presidential candidate and pop star Bobi Wine said one of his bodyguards was killed on Sunday when military police ran him over while Wine s convoy was taking a journalist wounded by police to seek medical help.
The military police said the bodyguard had fallen from a speeding car.
Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, has emerged as the strongest challenger to President Yoweri Museveni, 76, in the presidential election due on Jan. 14.