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EU and US call for probe into Uganda election violence as Bobi Wine remains under house arrest
The European Union has joined a growing number of international voices calling for a probe into Ugandan election abuses and violence that left more than 40 people dead in the lead up to the polls.
Opposition candidates were harassed by security forces, the media was suppressed by the government, and observers’ offices were raided, said the EU Council of Ministers in a statement on Wednesday.
It called on all parties to refrain from violence and for “election challenges and complaints to be addressed in an independent and transparent manner.”
A military court in Uganda has charged no fewer than 49 aides of embattled presidential candidate, Bobi Wine with illegal possession of four rounds of ammunition in a ruling which comes a week before general elections.
Those charges by the military court with illegal possession of ammunition include; Bobi Wine‘s top bodyguard Edward Ssebuwufu and musician Nubian Li, a close confidant and singing partner, of the presidential candidate.
Their lawyer told the BBC on Saturday that a prisons bus meant to drive the accused to court to sign their release documents on Friday instead took them to the military barracks where they were charged.
The Inspector General of the Ugandan Police Force, Martins Ochola, has warned voters ahead of the January 14 presidential elections, that they will regret |