Soldiers and police on Monday cordoned off the headquarters of Uganda’s largest opposition party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), in a move described by police as a precautionary measure ahead of planned anti-government protests on Tuesday. Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, reported on social media that security personnel surrounded the NUP headquarters in Kampala, preventing entry and exit.
Wine, a prominent political figure and former pop star, claimed that several NUP leaders were “violently arrested” and shared images of military personnel and army trucks at the scene. “The military and police have raided and surrounded the National Unity Platform offices,” he wrote. “The cowardly regime is so afraid of the people because they know how much they have wronged them!”
