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28 December, 2020, 11:03 pm
FILE PHOTO: Ugandan pop star and presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, campaigns near Kampala, Uganda, November 30, 2020. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa/File Photo
KAMPALA (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.
Uganda’s Bobi Wine says his bodyguard was ‘deliberately’ run over and killed
Ugandan presidential opposition candidate Bobi Wine said one of his bodyguards was run over and killed Sunday by a military police truck, while taking a journalist to the hospital.
“I regret to announce the murder of my security team member Francis Senteza Kalibala aka Frank. He was deliberately ran over by military-police truck,” Wine, a pop musician turned politician, wrote on Twitter.
A spokesperson for the Ugandan military denied Wine’s bodyguard had been targeted.
“UPDF (Ugandan People’s Defence Force) would like to clarify that the late Senteza … was not knocked by a Military Police Vehicle as purported, but rather fell off a speeding car … he tried to jump to (sic) but fell off,” Brig. Gen. Flavia Byekwaso, the spokesperson, wrote on Twitter late on Sunday.