Ugandan pop star and presidential hopeful, Bobi Wine, said some of his supporters were injured on Saturday after police fired teargas and live bullets to disperse a crowd in the country's east.
KAMPALA - Ugandan pop star and presidential hopeful, Bobi Wine, said some of his supporters were injured on Saturday after police fired teargas and live bullets to disperse a crowd in the country’s east.
Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, is seeking to end the 34-year-rule of aging President Yoweri Museveni in polls due to be held early next year.In a post on his Facebook account, Wine said he had travelled to the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale to appear on a radio talk show but that security personnel from both police and the military blocked him.
Wine joined politics in 2017 after winning a parliamentary by-election and subsequently declared he would stand for president. His large youth following has rattled the ruling National Resistance Movement party and drawn a security crackdown that has included dispersing his rallies with teargas and bullets, beatings and detaining some of his supporters.
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