Bobi Wine calls off election campaigns over police brutality

Bobi Wine.

Ugandan musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, addresses the press outside of a clinic in Kayunga, Uganda, where his injured supporters were getting treatment on December 1, 2020. PHOTO | SUMI SADURNI | AFP

Ugandan presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, on Tuesday suspended his campaigns over “the continued [police] brutality and killing of his supporters.”

On Tuesday, his aide and a police bodyguard were among people injured when police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse supporters at Kyampisi Trading Centre, Kayunga District in central Uganda.