Tension as Bobi Wine returns

Heavy security deployment along Entebbe road. PHOTO BY ALEX ESAGALA

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  • At Entebbe Airport, travelers were greeted by layettes of tight security and their relatives or friends were either blocked or chase away. Police authorities, working with the army and other security agencies also mounted several road blocks on the major roads to Entebbe Airport and for yet disclosed reasons blocked journalists from covering Bobi Wine’s return.

Singer Eddie Yawe, the elder brother to Bobi Wine aka Robert Kyagulanyi has been arrested on undisclosed charges.

The journalists have not been spared, some have been arrested and others were reportedly roughed up before they were blocked from accessing the airport.

Yawe was arrested in the morning as he tried to access Entebbe airport to welcome his brother from the US where he had gone to seek specialised treatment.

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Bobi Wine says he was tortured by security agents during his arrest in Arua. He is currently in court on treason charges. There are 34 others who were arrested and charged in a Gulu court with treason. They are accused of stoning one of the presidential escort vehicles.

Fred Nyanzi, the elder brother to Mr Yawe confirmed his arrest and indicated that he was Kajjansi police station trying to secure his release. Police authorities have not explained why they arrested Mr Yawe.

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Meanwhile Bobi Wine has left Nairobi and is expected to land at Entebbe Airport at 12:30pm. He is expected to be greeted by layers of security who were deployed at the airport. He is expected to be escorted to his home in Magere, located on Gayaza road in Kasangati town council. In Magere, ecstatic residents were seen cheering and chanting “People Power, Our Power” as they swept the dusty road leading to Bobi Wine’s home.

His planed luncheon with the residents of Kamwokya area, one of Kampala slums was blocked by police authorities. Before he joined politics, Bobi Wine was a self-styled Ghetto President of this neighborhood. Police, working with other agencies have beefed up security in Kamwokya and vowed to break any jamboree.

Some Opposition politicians were escorted to their resistive work places and others like the Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago were put under preventive arrest.

At Entebbe Airport, travelers were greeted by layettes of tight security and their relatives or friends were either blocked or chase away. Police authorities, working with the army and other security agencies also mounted several road blocks on the major roads to Entebbe Airport and for yet disclosed reasons blocked journalists from covering Bobi Wine’s return.

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