Security forces lock down Ugandan opposition’s HQ ahead of protest
Al Jazeera
President warns opposition is ‘playing with fire’ by taking to the streets.
Ugandan security forces have surrounded the headquarters of the main opposition party in advance of a planned antigovernment rally over alleged corruption and human rights abuses.
Police and soldiers cut off access to the office of the National Unity Platform (NUP), which sits near the capital, Kampala, on Monday. The threat of protests has angered longtime President Yoweri Museveni, who claimed it to be a plot being operated by unnamed “foreigners”.
NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi claimed that the blockade prevented people from entering or leaving, while some have been roughly detained.
“These cowards have turned the National Unity Platform Headquarters into a military barracks,” he wrote on X.
Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, added that several opposition leaders had been “violently arrested”.
