Popular performer hoping to unseat long-time leader was dragged from his car by police
Bobi Wine, the popular Ugandan reggae
Singer and opposition presidential hopeful, was temporarily blinded by
police when he was arrested in Kampala on Tuesday, moments after being successfully certified as a candidate in next year’s
election.
Heavily armed police and army officers blocked Wine’s vehicle as he was leaving the Kyambogo University
Cricket grounds on the outskirts of the capital. They smashed the vehicle’s windows with a crowbar and bundled the 38-year-old into a waiting police van.