The Electoral Commission (EC) has changed the security detail of the National Unity Platform candidate Robert Kyagulanyi and deployed a new one.
Justice Simon Byabakama, the EC chairperson, confirmed that the head of the Very Important Persons Protection Unit, Ms Hadijja Namutebi, had decided to switch the team.
This comes just a day after the commander of Bobi Wine security detail, Wilfred Kato Kubai, was shot by a rubber bullet on the face together with Kyagulanyi’s right-hand man, Dan Magic, who were taken to Mulago hospital for further treatment.
Sources yesterday told our reporter that Bobi Wine had contested the decision to remove his bodyguards but the EC officials insisted that they should be exchanged and a new team took over immediately.
At the wake of the campaigns when the security was given to Bobi Wine, he rejected them after he was forcefully picked from the nomination centre and taken to his home.
Bobi Wine accused them of conniving with the other officers to brutalize him.
Yesterday, Justice Byabakama said it took his intervention and called Bobi Wine to convince him to allow the bodyguards so he should be happy when they withdraw them.