Uganda Opposition Leaders & Supporters Arrested
National Unity Platform (NUP) party leaders in Uganda have purportedly been detained by security personnel.
According to opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, police raided the opposition party’s headquarters and detained the secretary general and the spokesperson.
“After raiding our headquarters to prevent us from addressing the country on Uganda’s independence day, police and military have proceeded to arrest party leaders and supporters,” Kyagulanyi said in a tweet.
He added that the leaders and other supporters are being detained at Kira Road and other police stations throughout the city.
“We owe it to ourselves to resist this impunity,” he wrote.
Just four days ago, Kyagulanyi was also arrested upon his return to the United States from a voyage to South Africa.
He was detained at the Entebbe International Airport.
His social media administrator posted that Wine was carried away to an unknown location.
The police would subsequently refute this claim, stating that they only escorted him from the airport to his residence in Magere.
They dismissed as rumors the reports of his arrest.
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As President Yoweri Museveni presided over the national Independence Day celebration at Kololo Ceremonial grounds, the arrests occurred.
After seventy years of British rule, Uganda attained independence.
On this date in 1962, the international community declared Uganda to be a free state.
Kyagulanyi, a ferocious critic of Museveni, will endeavor to succeed Museveni in the upcoming presidential elections.
The elections will take place between January 12 and February 9, 2026.
He has planned a series of mobilization tours across the nation that will coincide with the inauguration of new offices for the National Unity Platform party, on whose ticket he will most likely run for the presidency.
The first phase of the mobilization visits began on August 28 and will span ten districts until September 13.
“We shall go out to address our people physically and on media houses, and officially open our offices,” Wine said in a statement on August 23.
After a two-day retreat, the National Executive Committee of the National Unity Platform party initiated the excursions.
Uganda Opposition Leaders & Supporters Arrested