Counter terrorism police counter-terrorism officers assigned to guard National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate in the 2026 presidential campaigns have been arrested, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has said.
The police officers are said to have been arrested sometime this week, and are reportedly being detained at Railway Police Station in Kampala.
They are said to be detained on charges of disobeying lawful orders and of withdrawing from work without permission, according to reports.
Bobi Wine suspects the police officers were “targeted for doing their job with professionalism and patriotism.”
He says there has been a trend of quizzing police officers assigned to him on issues like NUP funding sources.
“In the 2021 election, the police officers who were attached to our campaign were attacked violently and subjected to all manner of brutality. After the election, several of them including their head, Afande Kato were arrested and detained for a long period. We learnt that they were questioned about our sources of funding, who I was meeting, what our plans were, etc. They were also interrogated about why they always sought to protect us from violent attacks by other sections of the police and military,” wrote Bobi Wine.
“Now, 2026, we have learnt that the officers who were attached to our campaign have also been arrested, and are being interrogated. These officers are usually targeted for doing their job with professionalism and patriotism. May we all stand in solidarity with them, and work for their freedom.”
The reports of arrests of Bobi Wine’s security guards come a day after the UPDF said they were neither looking for Bobi Wine nor interested in him, as reported Here and There
