KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan opposition determine Bobi Wine was shot within the leg in a confrontation with police Tuesday simply exterior the capital, Kampala, his opposition group stated.
Photographs posted on-line confirmed Wine surrounded by followers who yelled that he had been shot within the leg earlier than some supported him right into a ready automobile.
His get together, the Nationwide Unity Platform, holds probably the most seats of any opposition group within the nationwide meeting. The get together stated on X that Ugandan safety operatives “have made an try on the lifetime of” Wine, whose actual identify is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.
“He was shot within the leg and severely injured in Bulindo, Wakiso District,” it stated, referring to a city on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
Road confrontations between Wine and the police have regularly descended into violence, however that is the primary time he has been wounded in such a means.
There was no quick remark from the police and different authorities.
Wine ran for president in 2021, shedding to President Yoweri Museveni in an election he claimed was rigged towards him. Wine was a well-known entertainer on this East African nation earlier than he received a seat within the nationwide meeting in 2017. He’s particularly standard amongst younger Ugandans in city areas.
Museveni, a U.S. ally on regional safety for a few years, has held energy since 1986 and had the structure amended to take away the age restrict for presidents. Now 79 years previous, he has resisted calls to announce when he’ll retire.
Uganda hasn’t had a peaceable switch of energy since independence from the British in 1962.
