A 21-year-old man and a supporter of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party supporter was on Wednesday evening attacked by a group of unknown people who nailed the yellow beret he was wearing to his palms.
According to police, the incident happened in Kalererwe, a Kampala suburb.
The man is said to have been wearing a yellow beret, a reason why he was attacked.
He would thereafter be rushed to the hospital, where he was operated and the nails removed from his palms.
Police have condemned the act and said such political violence has no place in Uganda.
The yellow berets bearing President Museveni’s photo were introduced by NRM supporters after Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi and his supporters of the People Power Movement started to wear red berets bearing the legislator’s photo.