Drama as Bobi Wine Escapes House Arrest at midnight

News reaching our desk is that firebrand Uganda politician Bobi Wine has escaped from his house in Magere, Wakiso district.

The MP has been in a standoff with the Ugandan authorities since Monday after his shows were canceled because police said they failed to meet safety standards, prompting widespread protests.

Wine was removed from his car by police and escorted to his home while heading to a briefing he had called to address the concert cancellation and “police brutality” on Monday.

It is today when I attempted to move out of my home that the police told me that I am under house arrest. I was headed to Police headquarters in Naguru to deliver a notification about our planned peaceful demonstrations against police brutality, injustice and misuse of authority.

— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) April 23, 2019

But it seems the politician and pop star musician managed to escape the police dragnet at his house on Wednesday night and has been spotted in Bugiri District ready to attended the burial of his friend Hajj Siraj Lyavala.

Lyavala was a key member of Museveni’s NRM Party and rose to the position of District Chairman within the Party.

But he ditched Museveni’s party in the just concluded Bugiri Municipality MP election where he supported opposition candidate Asuman Basalirwa, who won the election.

Hajj Lyavala succumbed to kidney failure at at Platinum Hospital Buganda Road on Wednesday.