Bobi Wine heads to police CID headquarters
L-R: Bugiri Municipality MP, Mr Asuman Basalirwa; Mityana Municipality MP, Mr Francis Zaake and Bobi Wine in a meeting at the latter’s home in Magere, Wakiso District, before travelling to Kibuli. Photo by Michael Kakumirizi
Kyadondo East legislator Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine is Monday expected to report to police Directorate of Criminal Investigations (CID), at Kibuli.
The MP was last week summoned by the Deputy Director of CID, Mr Joseph Obwona.
Police allege that Bobi Wine incited violence and held unlawful assembly on Easter Monday in Busabala, Wakiso District.
“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 that summoned him, reads in part.
On Wednesday last week, 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 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.
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Mr Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson, says they had finally realised that Bobi Wine would not cause any mayhem in the public and the police had withdrawn from his home
