Kyadondo East Member of parliament Robert Kyagulanyi has been remanded at Luzira prisons till Thursday May 2, at 10.00 am after he failed to meet bail conditions.
Bobi Wine who was accompanied by a mammoth crowd was arrested today near the Mulago roundabout and driven to Nagalama police station in Mukono district from where he was driven back to the city center to Buganda Road court to appear before Grade One magistrate Esther Nahirya.
He pleaded not guilty and has been charged alongside disc joker (DJ) David Lule, Julius Katongole a student and resident of Namasuba, his brother Fred Nyanzi Ssentamu and his bodyguard, Edward Sebufu alias Eddie Mutwe.
The state alleges that when on July 11, 2018, the accused and others still at large, held a public meeting (anti-social media tax demo) without notifying police contrary to provisions of the Public Order Management Act (POMA). The state further alleges that the accused refused to coordinate and cooperate with police to ensure that all participants in the demonstration were unarmed and peaceful.
The MP however was unable to provide sureties and was therefore remanded to Luzira prison until Thursday this week.
Bobi Wine, together with a group of other activists, last year, held a demonstration in downtown Kampala against the Shs 200 excise duty for use of Over the Top (OTT) services (commonly known as social media tax), saying it was unfair since Ugandans were already paying for taxes on airtime.
Bobi Wine then managed to evade arrest when he disguised himself and jumped on a random boda-boda straight to parliament where MPs enjoy immunity from arrest.