All eyes on Museveni’s next move, as Bobi Wine protests spread
Bobi Wine's supporters display a placard outside the Rubaga Catholic Cathedral during a prayer mass for the MP who is in detention on August 22, 2018. PHOTO | MORGAN MBABAZI | NMG
By close of business, Monday, August 20, about 45 people, mostly youth, had been arrested by Uganda police, the culmination of a day that began with the burning of tyres, followed by chaos in parts of Kampala and a crackdown by security forces.
But this is an all too familiar pattern in Uganda: Political contests in recent years have seen the opposition galvanise around an issue and take to the streets; security responds with beatings, arrests and charges preferred against opposition leaders, as with Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change and the mayor of Kampala Erias Lukwago.
