While responding to queries from a section of legislators who tasked Government to explain why they have kept the Kyadondo East MP under house arrest with no explanation given for such actions, First Deputy prime Minister, Moses Ali said Bobi Wine should reduce on his energy of defiance saying his continued use of this method will keep him in battles with security.
“Sorry for what has happened but I am of the view that we should follow the law which you pass, if you provoke police, be ready for consequences, you should adjust not carry out deliberate means for defiance, you must be having so much energy for defiance,” he said
While raising the matter, Rukungiri Municipality MP, Roland Mugume raised a number of incidences opposition members have been barred from addressing electorates noting there is the need for government to explain why they are harassing the opposition yet NRM Party members are busy campaigning for sole candidature and reasons need to be raised why government is denying Kyagulanyi from practising his profession.
Democratic Party’s Muwanga Kivumbi told Parliament that he was among the last people to visit Bobi Wine before he was put under house arrest.
He said that when Kyagulanyi attempted to leave his home to come to Parliament, he was shocked to be ordered to return to his house or face arrest.
“They said you are under arrest. For how long will he stay in his house? Is it criminal to contest as president in this country? Does the Kyankwanzi resolution of sole candidature stop others from contesting?”
Bobi Wine was put under house arrest on Tuesday in what police said was a preventive measure to stop the Opposition politician from holding unlawful public assemblies.
“Those are preventive measures under the preventive policy of keeping law and order. As long as he still has threats of conducting unlawful assemblies, our intelligence we help us get that and we shall be able to see what next. However, as of now, we shall keep our forces there because this has become an issue of national security,” Mr Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson, said as quoted by Daily Monitor.
Before being put under house arrest, Bobi Wine had announced a plan to hold public demonstrations countrywide to protest continuous police blockade against his music shows and brutality against Opposition politicians.
He announced the move at his home in Magere, Kasangati Sub-county in Wakiso District shortly after police had blocked him from reaching his One Love Beach in Busabala on Monday and bundled him into a police vehicle and dumped him at his residence.
Mr Kyagulanyi was heading to his beach to address the media about the next course after police cancelled his Kyarenga Extra concert at the beach on Easter Monday.
“I wanted to tell the world what next and that is what the police didn’t want to hear. We have used all lawful ways for police to stop blocking my shows and brutalising the Opposition but they have failed to understand. I am calling for another lawful method and that is to protest,” Bobi Wine told the media at his residence in Kasangati.
