Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has said that he will return to Uganda on Monday although he said that he is afraid.
“I’ll be going back home on Monday. Of course I’m worried, but that’s my home, that’s where my family is, that’s where all my people are,” he said in an interview with South Africa’s , Mail & Guardian.
However Mr Kyagulanyi said while addressing Ugandans in Washington that he would return to Uganda on Thursday.
“You can expect anything from Uganda. Because looking back in history many freedom fighters have been rudely arrested upon arrivals and I am not any different, so there is anything to expect,” he said in the same interview.
Bobi Wine left Uganda in early September to seek medical attention in the United States, after sustaining injuries during his arrest following the campaign fracas in Arua in which Bobi Wine’s supporters threw stones at the convoy of President Yoweri Museveni.
Security forces later returned to forcibly disperse the crowd. In the ensuing violence, 36 people were assaulted and/or arrested, including Wine, and one person was killed – Bobi Wine’s driver Yasiin Kawuma.
The MP and 11 others were charged with treason in connection with the incident, but are currently out on bail.