Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine Out Of Danger , Leaves Hopsital After Threat On He’s Life

Uganda’s main opposition leader Bobi Wine said he was “out of danger” and recovering at his home in Kampala, a day after he was shot and injured during a confrontation with police on the outskirts of the capital. Wine, who ran for the Ugandan presidency three years ago, was rushed to hospital on Tuesday, with his party claiming that Ugandan security forces “made an attempt on the life” of the pop star turned politician.

He told the hoimapost  on Wednesday that he had been shot at by the police and had tear gas canisters thrown at him as he was exiting his lawyer’s house. “The canister exploded and injured my left leg leaving a big wound. I had minor surgery and two fragments were removed from my leg. I’m now out of danger,” added Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.

His National Unity Platform had earlier posted a video that showed an injured Wine being helped into a waiting car by members of his team as a police pick-up truck left the scene.

The NUP claimed the security forces “surrounded our vehicles and started firing live bullets, tear gas canisters”. Wine also said on Wednesday that police raided the medical facility where he was being treated “demanding to have access to me, which prompted me to leave the hospital.

I am now being treated from home.” Wine lost the 2021 presidential vote to the long-standing incumbent Yoweri Museveni in an election he claimed was rigged against him. Museveni has ruled Uganda since 1986, with critics saying he had deployed every organ of the state as part of efforts to retain power. Wine has said he was shot at, beaten and thrown in jail during the 2021 campaign, while scores of his supporters were killed and his events were stormed by the police. In 2019, police beat Wine unconscious with an iron bar and, he claimed, used pliers on his testicles.

A year earlier, his driver was shot dead. “Is this a curtain-raiser for 2026 election violence?” Sarah Bireete, director of the Center for Constitutional Governance in Kampala, asked of the incident on Tuesday. Recommended ReviewFilm From the archive: Bobi Wine — portrait of Uganda’s young hopeful She was referring to the next presidential election when the 42-year-old Wine could again face the 79-year-old Museveni.

Wine has expressed solidarity with the “courageous” protesters who had taken to the streets as part of anti-corruption rallies earlier this year, in the face of what he called “very brutal actions by the military and police”. Ugandan human rights activist Ingrid Turinawe said: “Whether it’s a bullet or canister or knife or stone or nail. Whatever it is,

Bobi Wine or any other Ugandan has the right and freedom to move. This nonsense of tormenting peaceful unarmed civilians must stop.” Uganda police said of Tuesday’s incident that Wine had been invited to a thanksgiving ceremony on the outskirts of Kampala which passed off peacefully but that, afterwards, he and his team had embarked on a procession against police advice, “leading to police intervention”.

“Police officers on site claim he stumbled while getting into his vehicle, causing the injury,” the statement continued, “whereas [he] and his team assert that he was shot. An investigation will be conducted to clarify the facts.”