KAMPALA: Bobi Wine, a Ugandan pop star and lawmaker who is seeking to challenge veteran leader Yoweri Museveni for the presidency, was freed on bail on Thursday after spending two days in jail on charges of staging unlawful protests.
He was jailed after being charged with several offences stemming from his championing a demonstration against taxes on social media usage last year. "My business is standing for the truth, my business is standing for what is morally right," he said via a video link to the court from a jail south of the capital Kampala.On the day he was jailed police used teargas to disperse groups of youths in various parts of Kampala who were demonstrating against the government and what they see as harassment of Wine for his political ambitions.
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