Bobi Wine expected at CID headquarters today
What you need to know:
- Incitement to violence charges have been police’s main tool used against opposition supporters.
- Over 100 opposition supporters have pending cases of incitement to violence at police. Most of the suspects have never been charged in court.
KAMPALA. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has summoned the Kyadondo East legislator Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine to report at their headquarters, Kibuli, today.
In summons signed by the Deputy Director of CID Joseph Obwona, Police allege that Bobi Wine incited violence and held unlawful assembly on Easter Monday.
“Inquiries are being conducted in the above quoted reference whereby on the April 22, 2019, you were allegedly involved in inciting violence and unlawful assembly in defiance of the Inspector General of Police guidelines during the preparation of Kyarenga Extra Concert at Busabala,” the letter reads in part.
On Wednesday, the State Minister for Internal Affairs Obiga Kania told Parliament that Bobi Wine was confined at his home at Magere, Kasangati, because of criminal cases against him. But he was able to leave his home on Thursday after police officers withdrew.
On Easter Friday, police blocked Bobi Wine concerts around the country saying he had failed to fulfil the security guidelines. On Easter Monday, he travelled to his Busabala One Love Beach to hold a press conference, but the police didn’t allow him to access the facility and arrested him on the way. He was later put under house arrest.
“This is therefore, in pursuance of the provisions of Section 27A of the Police Act (as amended) required to report to the acting commissioner in charge of Electoral and Political Crimes…on April 26 at 2pm, the summons read in part.
Superintendent of Police Vincent Ssekatte confirmed that the summons have been delivered to the office of the Speaker of Parliament and detectives are waiting for him today to interrogate him.
Efforts to establish whether Bobi Wine had received the summons were fruitless as he didn’t pick our repeated calls.
This is not the first time police have summoned Bobi Wine at CID headquarters at Kibuli. In September 2017, Bobi Wine reported to CID headquarters and recorded a statement on the brawls in Parliament during a debate on lifting the presidential age limit.
Since then the police didn’t pursue the case.
He is also battling treason charges in court on allegations that he stoned a car in the presidential convoy in August 2018.
Incitement to violence charges have been police’s main tool used against opposition supporters.
Over 100 opposition supporters have pending cases of incitement to violence at police. Most of the suspects have never been charged in court.
