Presidential aspirant for National Unity Platform (NUP) Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has challenged Uganda Police to exercise impartiality while managing crowds which will escort him for nomination on Tuesday.
Bobi Wine was acknowledging receipt of Inspector General of Police’s letter in which he was given traffic guidelines he must follow as he goes for nomination at Kyambogo grounds on Tuesday November 2.
IGP Martin Okoth Ochola instructed that Bobi Wine will be picked by security from his home in Magere through Ntinda and then Kyambogo – the nomination venue.
However, Mr Bobi Wine said Police should accord his supporters necessary protection like how security ‘massaged’ his opponent President Museveni’s crowds on Monday as he went for nomination.
On Monday morning police didn’t use ‘an iron hand’ to disperse supporters of President Yoweri Museveni.
Posting on twitter, Bobi Wine said; “Police has written to me about this route as I go for nominations tomorrow. Today, we saw people mobilised by NRM standing along different roads, guarded by the police, unmolested. WE HOPE THE POLICE WILL BEHAVE THE SAME WAY IF OUR SUPPORTERS STAND AND BY THE ROAD TO WAVE TO US.”
Bobi Wine is among the opposition aspirants who vowed to defy EC guidelines on the nomination day saying it is his constitutional right.
But Museveni warned fellow candidates against distablising the electoral process saying “they will be crushed.”
