Security concerns force injured Bobi Wine’s premature discharge

Kampala September 4—Security tension around St. Francis Hospital Nsambya where the Opposition National Unity Platform NUP leader, Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu, alias Bobi Wine, was admitted to receive treatment, forced a premature discharge of the NUP leader to instead receive treatment at his home in Magere.

All roads around the hospital were blocked by police and whoever was approaching the hospital had to answer several questions and if not convincing, they were turned away. Several Police personnel both in uniform and plain clothes were deployed around and inside the hospital. NUP spokesperson and Leader of Opposition, Joel Ssenyonyi, said some security personnel tried to force their way inside the private room where their leader was receiving treatment but were blocked by the NUP youth guarding the entrance. He added that some operatives even tried to get Kyagulanyi’s medical records but the medical administration declined.

Ssenyonyi said the security development at the hospital, forced the NUP party leadership to ask the hospital administration for a premature discharge of their leader and instead opt to continue treatment from his home, which the Nsambya medical team agreed to.

Kyagulanyi who had undergone minor surgery of his leg to remove fragments of the teargas canister fired at him at Bulindo Tuesday evening by a police personnel, was moved out in a wheel chair Wednesday evening and put in a waiting ambulance that transported him to his home at Magere amid tight security by the Police.  However footage making rounds on social media, showed police personnel in their vehicle speeding away from the scene of crime as Kyagulanyi fell down in agony as his supporters tried to help him.

Apart from the concerns of Bobi Wine’s security at the hospital, his discharge also eased tension at the hospital for the medical staff, patients and attendants and for road users.

Police spokesperson Rusoke Kituuma, said the heavy deployment around the hospital was to maintain law and order in and around the hospital. He maintained that Bobi Wine stumbled as he was boarding his car and hurt himself adding that the exact cause of Kyagulanyi’s would only be determined by through investigation, warning against concluding the issue on videos circulating on social media. “ Professional and medical investigations will be conducted to ascertained what happened”, Kituuma told Journalists in Kampala.