The National Unity Platform presidential flag bearer, Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine has rejected the security escort detail which was attached to him by electoral commission on 03rd.November.2020 after nomination, saying that they failed the first test of their duty when they looked on as he was being brutalized by their colleagues.
Yesterday after being declared duly nominated, Hon. Kyagulanyi
was given a security escort detail of 6 armed police officers and a police
patrol vehicle under the presidential election act and that the officers was
only meant to guard and protect him.
According to NUP Secretary general David Lewis Lubongoya , Kyagulanyi accuses
some of the officers who were given to him by the EC and promised that they
would protect him, of instead helping his tormentors in arresting, beating and
dehumanizing him.
Meanwhile Lubongoya has also declared that having been blocked from launching their party manifesto yesterday after nominating, they have decided to organize the launch this Friday in Mbarara Municipality which will run concurrently with the opening of their western Uganda regional office. The party Vice President in charge of Western Uganda Jolly Ekyomugasho added that although the Manifesto Launch premises will only accommodate 70 people, they have organized a bigger space outside the hall where several other Ugandans will watch and listen to the proceedings via public address systems. Ms Ekyomugasho speaking….
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