Ugandan presidential candidate Bobi Wine has accused his country’s military police of running over and killing one of his bodyguards on Sunday.
The incident, the politician-cum-pop star said, occurred as his convoy was taking a journalist injured by police to a hospital.
“I regret to announce the murder of my security team member Francis Senteza Kalibala aka Frank. He was deliberately run over by military-police truck, No. H4DF 2382, which blocked us in Busega on our way to Rubaga to get Kasirye Ashraf emergency medical attention,” said Wine.
But the Ugandan police denied the charge, saying the bodyguard fell from a speeding car.
“UPDF (Ugandan People’s Defence Force) would like to clarify that the late Senteza…was not knocked by a Military Police Vehicle as purported, but rather fell off a speeding car…he tried to jump to (sic) but fell off,” the military police said on their Twitter handle.
Wine, whose given name is Robert Kyagulanyi hopes to defeat longtime leader President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, 76, in the presidential election slated for January 14.
