Three journalists have become victims of fresh violence which erupted in Ugandan capital, Kampala on Monday morning.
It took the intervention of heavily armed military personnel to restore sanity after police fired live bullets and teargas to quell the protests but in vain.
The riots which paralysed business broke out in Kiseka market, downtown Kampala as supporters of Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi opposed his continued detention in a military facility, Makindye.
Popularly known as Bobi Wine, the pop-politician faces charges of illegal possession of firearm. His supporters however, say this charge was aimed at frustrating his political ambitions.
The dance hall musician was arrested last Monday in Arua, a district in Northern Uganda where he and several other legislators pitched camp campaigning for a fellow opposition member in a concluded by-election.
Their candidate Kassiano Wadri was elected Arua Municipality MP following a series of violence which left one person Yasin Kawuma dead, many injured and 34 arrested.
In his detention at Makindye where the military court remanded him, Bobi Wine is in dire state and needs special medical treatment, his wife Barbie Kyagulanyi said last week.
But the President of Uganda refuted the reports as fake news.
Now, on Monday as journalists covered the wave of new protests dubbed Free Bobi Wine, the military arrested three journalists according to their colleagues.
Reports say James Akena a photojournalist with Reuters was reportedly beaten and whisked to unknown place.
Also local TV, NTV reporter Juma Kiirya and his cameraman Ronald Galiwango were also arrested and later released but forced to delete protests’ footage.
Akena’s whereabouts remain unknown.
