Police deny any plans of blocking Bobi Wine from Enkuuka fete

Police have

said they have no plans of blocking Kyadondo East legislator and singer Robert

Kyagulanyi also known as Bobi Wine from performing at Enkuuka y’omwaka fete on

December 31.

After

blocking his boxing- day concert at his One Love beach in Busaabala early this

week, reports had indicated that police had issued orders to the organisers of

the event in Mengo not to allow the singing legislator perform at the function

set for Monday.

However,

police spokesperson, Emilian Kayima said no plans have been made to block the

singer from performing at the event organised by Buganda kingdom.

"It is just a rumour. No one from Police has stopped Bobi Wine from performing at Enkuuka. If there is any change in communication we shall inform you,”Kayima said on Friday afternoon at police headquarters in Naguru.

On

Wednesday, there was a scuffle at Bobi Wine’s One Love Beach in Busaabala as

police that deployed heavily blocked revelers from accessing the venue that was

set to host a boxing -day concert.

They

would later fire live bullets in the air and teargas to disperse the revelers

who wanted to access the venue.

The

police spokesperson said they had to cancel the concert because the organisers

had not followed the required guidelines.

“If we must play by the rules of engagement, why not him? The

last time he had such, he had over 30,000 people. And we all know when you are

going to gather all those people, are you sure that they are going to be

secure? We put these guidelines not out of the blue. We want them to abide by

these,”Kayima said on Wednesday.

“If he(Bobi Wine) writes and the response does not come, then

you can’t have it.”

A number of people have raised concern over deliberate

efforts by government using security agencies like police to frustrate the

singer cum legislator’s efforts to hold concerts in various parts of the

country.

Many have lashed out at government for illegally blocking the

singer from enjoying his right to earn a living through music.

Kyagulanyi this week said police had not explained to him why his concerts had been blocked despite writing to them early enough in December informing them of the same.

“We

wrote to police long ago and complied with all legal requirements. As they have

been doing recently, they did not respond to us at all, until last night when

they showed up to disrupt the event,”Kyagulanyi posted on his social

media accounts on Wednesday.