by Nurat Uthman
Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine said on Friday that his party has plans to sue local police after he was injured in a confrontation with officers earlier this week.
Wine, a vociferous critic of Uganda’s iron-fisted President Yoweri Museveni, said he was hit by a tear gas canister thrown by police during the fracas on Tuesday.
Initially, Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) said the 42-year-old had been shot in the leg, while police said he had stumbled and injured himself.
“We are going to sue these criminal police officers,” Wine said at a press conference at his residence in Magere outside the capital Kampala.
“I’m a very very lucky man,” he said after walking into the event on crutches, describing it as the fourth “assassination attempt” against him.
Wine was released from hospital on Wednesday after undergoing surgery for his injury.
Uganda’s police force spokesperson, Rusoke Katuuma told a press conference Wednesday that investigations have been opened into the incident.
“We cannot jump into any conclusion. We can only conclude on the basis of a professional finding,” Katuuma said.
