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Ugandan Police Raid Opposition Party Offices, Take Election-Related Documents

Halima Athumani

   KAMPALA, UGANDA - Ugandan police and military forces armed with door
   cutters, AK-47 guns, tear gas canisters and batons stormed offices of
   the National Unity Platform party in Kampala on Wednesday.

   Roads leading to party offices were cut off as police parked huge
   trucks in front.

   Security officers forced open doors and took items from inside. They
   later asked members of the party to sign for what was taken.

   Joel Ssenyonyi, the NUP spokesperson, said the officers took items from
   the office of party leader Robert Kyagulanyi, better known by his stage
   name Bobi Wine.

   "They have taken paraphernalia, that is red berets. T-shirts. They have
   taken documents ... we are still trying to establish exactly,"
   Ssenyonyi said. "They also broke into honorable Kyagulanyi's office,
   which had many sensitive documents. We were preparing to take his
   signatures that we have collected from different parts of the country
   to the Electoral Commission on Friday and many of those documents are
   now missing."

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