Opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has continued to elude security forces who launched a manhunt after he fled his home to escape house arrest.
Bobi Wine, who has posted several videos from undisclosed locations urging Ugandans to use legal means to reject the results of the January 15 election, said on Tuesday that security forces had gone to his Busabala beach looking for him.
“[They] asked the staff if I had been there. [They] tried to compromise one to tip them off if I come around,” he posted on X.
“There was an aerial drone hovering over the night before. I advise them not to waste time on these futile exercises. I will reappear at an appropriate time.”
The comments came days after a viral video in which Mr Kyagulanyi’s wife, Barbie, gave a harrowing account of how security forces raided their home, ransacked the house, smashed doors and undressed her.
She sustained injuries and has since been admitted to Nsambya Hospital. In the video, she said the soldiers were very many, and she estimated each window of the house, a mansion in Magere, 15km north of Kampala, had about 10 soldiers.
President Museveni won the January 15 election with 71.65% against Bobi Wine’s 24.72%, according to the results announced by the Electoral Commission. But Bobi Wine rejected the results, saying they were fake. Eight candidates contested the election, the second Bobi Wine has lost since 2021.
He says ordinary people have helped him elude security forces, but it is not clear how they have accommodated him without the knowledge of intelligence organisations.
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“Despite the ongoing unjustified manhunt by the criminal regime, I am grateful to the common people who I meet daily for trying to shield me and keep me safe,” he posted on X on January 26, when the NRM marked 40 years in power.
“Yesterday as I travelled to Gomba District to pay a visit to our home and check on my relatives, I passed by many roadblocks mounted on different roads.
“The inconvenience on road users is terrible. I advise the regime to stop looking for me. I will resurface at an appropriate time. The best they would do is to peacefully relinquish power and let the people of Uganda decide their own destiny. Short of that, they will face the inevitable fate of all despots before them.”
Army chief Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has called him “criminal” and vowed to get him “live or dead”.
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