Ugandan military chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba said he was praying for fugitive opposition leader Bobi Wine’s death and gave him 48 hours to surrender to the police following a contentious\u00a0presidential election.<\/p>\n
Former pop star Wine said he fled a\u00a0military raid\u00a0on his house hours before veteran President Yoweri Museveni was declared the landslide winner of last week’s presidential election.<\/p>\n
Wine, who finished runner-up, has alleged widespread fraud during the vote. He has released several statements since Saturday from undisclosed locations.<\/p>\n
Kainerugaba, who is Museveni’s son and is widely believed to be his preferred successor, made a series of threats against Wine in posts late on Monday on X, referring to him by the derisive nickname “Kabobi”.<\/p>\n
POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n “I am giving him exactly 48 hours to surrender himself to the Police,” Kainerugaba wrote. “If he doesn’t we will treat him as an outlaw\/rebel and handle him accordingly.”<\/p>\n In another post, Kainerugaba said in a reference to Wine’s National Unity Platform party: “We have killed 22 NUP terrorists since last week. I’m praying the 23rd is Kabobi.”<\/p>\n Police spokesperson Kituma Rusoke said on Monday night that Wine was not being sought.<\/p>\n After a tense campaign in which security forces repeatedly opened fire at Wine’s rallies, several incidents of post-election violence were reported. In one, the police\u00a0killed several opposition supporters\u00a0in central Uganda in disputed circumstances.<\/p>\n However, fears of the kind of violence that killed hundreds – and possibly thousands – in\u00a0neighbouring Tanzania\u00a0after its elections in October did not materialise.<\/p>\n HISTORY OF INFLAMMATORY SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Kainerugaba, 51, routinely makes inflammatory posts on social media, including a threat in 2022 to invade neighbouring Kenya.<\/p>\n Last year he boasted he had Wine’s bodyguard in his basement and threatened to castrate him. The bodyguard was later charged with robbery.<\/p>\n Kainerugaba has spoken openly about his desire to take over from his father, who has been in power since 1986. Museveni, 81, has denied grooming his son to succeed him.<\/p>\n At least 118 NUP members were charged in court on Monday with election-related offences, including unlawful assembly and conspiracy, court documents showed.<\/p>\n David Rubongoya, the NUP’s secretary general, denied party members were involved in violent activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ugandan military chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba said he was praying for fugitive opposition leader Bobi Wine’s death and gave him 48 hours to surrender to the police following a contentious\u00a0presidential election. 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