Also on Monday, Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, was stopped from holding a meeting with his followers. According to the AP, he was arrested on Wednesday along with two other opposition MPs.
In July last year, the 37-year-old opposition politician officially announced that he is running for Uganda's 202 presidential election. The country's current president Yoweri Museveni has been in office since 1986.
- 80 percent of the population has never lived under any other president. So many have been disconnected from politics for a long time, they do not care about the board or voting. My role is to open people's eyes, and for the first time it happens. Through the music, Bobi Wine said in an interview with the Culture News in June 2019.
Bobi Wine was a well-known afrobeat musician in Uganda even before he was elected Member of Parliament in 2017. He has been tried several times, in August he was charged with treason and for having "annoyed and ridiculed" the president.