Uganda police detain opposition lawmaker after at least seven killed

Uganda police said on Thursday they had detained a legislator and senior official of the country’s biggest opposition party for his alleged role in election-related violence in which at least seven people were killed.
The lawmaker, Muwanga Kivumbi, is vice president of the opposition National Unity Platform party headed by pop star-turned-politician, Bobi Wine, who has been in hiding since last week.
Wine, whose legal name is Robert Kyagulanyi, said he fled a military raid on his house hours before veteran President Yoweri Museveni was declared the landslide winner of the January 15 presidential election.
Police confirmed Kivumbi’s arrest in a post on the X platform and said he would “be arraigned before court in due course.”
“His arrest is in connection with recent incidents of political violence,” police said.