Daily Monitor
Tuesday January 19 2021
This photo tweeted by Bobi Wine on January 19, 2021 shows Bobi Wine, his wife Barbra Itungo and a child who he says is a relative who had paid them a visit before the security siege last week. PHOTO/ COURTESY
Summary
Bobi Wine’s confinement is not a new tactic in Uganda government’s rule book in suppressing main political challengers who aim to challenge results of presidential elections in court.
On the day of voting during the 2016 elections, security grabbed then presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, who alleged that the ballot had been rigged, and placed him under house arrest for more than 40 days and freed him after the period to file election petition had lapsed.
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Ugandan police officers refuse lawyers of Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, from meeting him at his house in Kampala, Uganda 18 January 2021. - Reuters
Uganda accused the US ambassador on Tuesday of seeking to subvert last week’s presidential election by trying to visit the main opposition candidate at his home, which has been surrounded by security forces since the vote.
Troops prevented pop star-turned-legislator Bobi Wine from leaving his house shortly after he returned from voting in Thursday’s presidential election, in which he ran against incumbent Yoweri Museveni.