National Unity Platform president and singer Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu a.k.a Bobi Wine was on Tuesday evening shot at while in Bulindo.
A series of videos that have flooded social media show Bobi Wine on the ground with an injured and bleeding lower left leg.
In the videos, his comrades including NUP Deputy Publicist Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro are seen helping Bobi Wine up before bundling him into a car.
The NUP president is then rushed to a hospital to receive treatment.
According to statement released on Bobi’s X account, he had gone to Bulindo to visit one of his lawyers George Musisi when security officials surrounded their vehicles and started shootings live bullets.
This evening as our President returned from Bulindo in Kira Municipality where he had gone to check on one of our lawyers, Musisi George, the police and military under the command of one Twesigye surrounded our vehicles and started firing live bullets, teargas canisters and other projectiles.
In the process, our President #BobiWine who was clearly targeted was shot in the leg. He is currently being attended to by a team of medical doctors. This is yet another attempt on the life of our President by the Museveni regime!
Josh Ruby is an Editor with high interest and knowledge in the Ugandan entertainment space, an industry he has been actively part of since 2010. Leads to breaking stories are welcome! More by Josh Ruby
