Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 17 2021
Journalists display injuries they sustained after security operatives attacked them while covering Bobi Wine on February 17, 2021
Summary
At least 10 journalists were left nursing injuries after military personnel attached to the Uganda People s Defence Forces (UPDF) assaulted them while covering Mr Kyagulanyi who was accompanied by relatives of Ugandans who have been abducted by security operatives during and after elections.
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Police and UPDF on Wednesday accused National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine of holding unlawful procession as they justified attack on journalists who were covering the former presidential candidate as he delivered his petition to the United Nation Human Rights offices in Kampala.
Military Police in Uganda has beaten journalists who were covering National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wineâs petition to the United Nations (UN) this afternoon.
The affected journalists include NBS TVâs Josephine Namakumbi, Timothy Murungi and Henry Ssekanjako of the New Vision, John Cliff Wamala of NTV, Irene Abalo Otto of Daily Monitor, and Shamim Nabakooza of Record TV.
Speaking to Nile Post, NBSâ Namakumbi said that they were covering the incident where security forces blocked the roads leading to the UN Human Rights office in Kololo, before military officers started beating them.
Namakumbi says that many of their colleagues have been left bleeding.
The NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi has condemned the brutality imposed on journalists and politicians who were beaten up by the UPDF officers on their way UN Human Rights office in Kololo.
“In a very contemptuous manner, they descended on everyone they could land on and beat them without mercy. They smashed windscreens of the vehicles we went with. Several colleagues were rushed to hospital. Museveni will certainly not force us into submission. We shall be free,” he posted on his Twitter page.
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Ugandans have witnessed several online shows from different artistes ever since the country was put under lockdown but Bobi Wine’s concerts have two things in common - the first being the number of viewers as well as the agenda of the show.
The presidential aspirant has held three shows this year but his online number has not come less than 20,000 views which has by far been a hard task for other artistes.