At a pre-election news conference with senior security officials, Uganda s police chief Martin Okoth Ochola refused to apologise, saying reporters would be stopped from trying to go to areas where their lives could be at risk. You are insisting you must go where there is danger. Yes, we shall beat you for your own sake to help you understand that you do not go there. Yes, we shall use reasonable force to ensure that you don t go where there is a risk. Actually, I have no apology, he said.
The authorities say Wine s rallies break laws governing public order and Covid-19 restrictions on large gatherings.
Uganda has space in its prisons to cope with any spike in arrests during next week's presidential election and the police beat reporters for their own good, senior security officials said on Friday.
KAMPALA, Jan 8 - Dozens of campaign staff working for Bobi Wine, Uganda's leading opposition candidate in next week's presidential election, are being held in a military barracks after authorities defied court orders to release them, Wine's lawyer s
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