The American ambassador was not allowed to visit Bobi Wine

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Wine – a singer turned politician whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi – is under house arrest after the military surrounded his house on Friday.

Uganda’s President, President Yoweri Museveni, was declared the winner for a record sixth term amid an internet outage and allegations of manipulation.

Ambassador Natalie E. Brown went to Wine’s resident to check on his health and safety because he was “actually unable to leave his home, with security forces surrounding his hometown,” the Kampala embassy said in a Facebook post. .

“Uganda’s election campaigns were marred by the intimidation of opposition candidates, campaign personnel and supporters; repression of the media and civil society activities; and a nationwide shutdown of the Internet before, during and after voting day,” the post said.

Wine said through one of his employees that he was out of food and that Brown could not leave anything with him.

“The main motivation for us to keep doing what we do despite all this harassment is because what we do is moral,” he said in an audio message posted on Twitter on Monday.
Wine’s wife’s 18-month-old niece, Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi, is at the residence and her father has been denied entry because no one is allowed to leave or enter the compound, Wine said on Twitter.

Wine dismisses Saturday’s election results, saying he has evidence of fraud and intimidation. He did not provide details of that alleged evidence and said his team would share it once lines of communication were restored.

Uganda’s spokesman, Ofwono Opondo, signed up an opinion piece that Brown did not “cry for Ugandans,” and accused the US of meddling.

“If Natalie doubts that elections would not be ‘credible’ just because the US embassy had voluntarily withdrawn from the observation is aimless shooting,” he said in the piece, which he posted on his Twitter page.

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If American democracy were untouchable, Brown should first notice President Donald Trump’s false claims about electoral fraud and the uprising at the Capitol, he added.

“As of now, Natalie should be the last person to give unqualified lectures on election integrity.”

The US has decided not to observe the election due to the election commission’s decision to reject more than three-quarters of its accreditation requests, Brown said in a statement Wednesday, a day before the election.

The embassy called on the Museveni government to respect the “human rights and fundamental freedoms” of its citizens and to “uphold international human rights standards”.

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