{"id":182050,"date":"2020-01-06T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=182050"},"modified":"2020-01-06T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:14:20","slug":"ugandan-government-arrests-revolutionary-opposition-leader-bobi-wine-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=182050","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan Government Arrests Revolutionary Opposition Leader, Bobi Wine, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/01\/Ugandan-Government-Arrests-Revolutionary-Opposition-Leader-Bobi-Wine-Others.jpeg\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Government of Uganda has arrested youthful opposition politician, Robert Kyagulanyi popularly known as Bobi Wine.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><span class=\"block-module-image adunit hide\" data-adunit=\"story-300x250-mobile-billboard\" data-adsize=\"300,250\" data-adscreenmax=\"767\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The singer-turned-politician was arrested on Monday by dozens of policemen in Kampala, the country&#8217;s capital, as he attempted to access a venue in the city to attend an event.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was effected as police fired teargas and live bullets to disrupt a&nbsp; consultative meeting that was organised by Bobi Wine.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports indicate that he was arrested alongside several of his aides and whisked to Kasangati Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>The young politician had declared his intention to challenge President Yoweri Museveni during the elections in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Kasangati Mayor, Mr Tony Sempebwa Kiyimba, said he was disappointed that police could block such a lawful meeting, Daily Mirror reports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Uganda has arrested youthful opposition politician, Robert Kyagulanyi popularly known as Bobi Wine. The singer-turned-politician was arrested on Monday by dozens of policemen in Kampala, the country&#8217;s capital, as he attempted to access a venue in the city to attend an event.&nbsp; The arrest was effected as police fired teargas and live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3],"tags":[4866,1089],"class_list":["post-182050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-crime","tag-uganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}