Bobi Wine vows to continue with countrywide mobilisation

Kyagulanyi, who lashed out at the Deputy Inspector General of Police after he issued a statement suspending the NUP countrywide tours, said that the Police have no right to grant or deny permission to anybody to assemble publicly.

He castigated Katsigazi for being an "NRM functional machine" who is only serving what he called the oppressors of the state that is Uganda.

Kyagulanyi made the remarks while addressing journalists at the NUP party offices in Kampala on Thursday, September 14, 2023.

Police recently suspended the National Unity Platform's national tours, citing the party's failure to follow guidelines.

A statement issued by Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Katsigazi Tumusiime, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, indicated that police have been observing breaches of set guidelines in areas where the party held its activities.

"While we completely support the right of individuals, groups, and other citizens to peacefully gather or assemble and express their views on matters of public policy, we have noticed that, in all areas where the NUP mobilisation activities have been carried out, there have been total breaches of the guidelines, thus causing public disorder, unnecessary traffic jams, loss of business, and malicious damage to property," the statement, which was issued on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, read in part.

The statement further read: "For instance, in Mbarara City, their rowdy supporters vandalised a Toyota Hiace under reg. no. UBD 251J and caused traffic accidents, including a fatal one in Houma City on September 11th, where Mugisa Norman died and 10 others got serious injuries during the NUP convoy."

Additionally, police said NUP’s mobilisation activity in Luweero was used to incite violence, promote sectarianism, and make illegitimate calls for the removal of an elected government. and the issuance of defamatory statements against the president.