Sporadic anti-graft demonstration in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Tuesday has led to the arrest and detention of over 60 people, APA can report on Wednesday.
Some of those detained including the leaders of the march were spirited to court and arrainged on Wednesday before they were later remanded.
Protesters apparently taking inspiration from the spectacular success of widespread demonstrations in neighbouring Kenya, took to the streets on Tuesday to protest rampant corruption among top officials despite being denied police permit to demonstrate.
The protest leaders had used social media to mobilise young Ugandans on the streets.
The protesters were demanding among other things that cases of graft be investigated, prosecuted and offenders jailed.
Meanwhile the Ugandan police say the protesters were infiltrated by politicians bent on undermining the peace and stability of the country.
President Yoweri Museveni had earlier warned that any street protest will be crushed.
The route of Tuesday’s protest took demonstrators to the country’s parliament building where they demanded the resignation or removal of Speaker Anita Among who was fingered in a corruption scandal and is currently under investigation.
The speaker and two other officials are under UK and UN sanctions for infractions linked to ”stealing from poor communities in Uganda”.
‘Among must go’ was the main refrain by the protesters.
Several arrests were made in the hours leading to Tuesday’s protest, according to opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi also known by his musical stage name Bobi Wine.
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