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The protest in Kenya has migrated to heavy protest in Uganda as the country’s junta leader who has led the East African country for the past 40 years is threatening thunder and brimstone over the protest. We once told you what triggered the sudden unrest in Uganda and the president is talking tough, take a look at the activities of the protesters in Uganda, who have vowed to defy the order of the Junta in Uganda.
Dozens of people who joined anti-corruption rallies in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on Tuesday in defiance of an official ban have been charged and held behind bars, their lawyers said.About 60 people, including a prominent TV and radio presenter and three young protest leaders, were hurriedly brought before the courts and remanded in custody on charges including being a “common nuisance”, they said.
President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the East African country with an iron fist for almost four decades, had warned at the weekend that the demonstrators were “playing with fire”.
Riot police were out in force across Kampala, manning roadblocks, especially near the business district, while officers sealed off roads to parliament.
Museveni, 79, who has ruled the East African nation with an iron fist for nearly four decades, said in a televised address on Saturday that the anti-corruption march will not be allowed.
“What right… do you have to seek to generate chaotic behavior? … We are busy producing … cheap food, other people in other parts of the world are starving… you here want to disturb us. You are playing with fire because we cannot allow you to disturb us…”, Museveni said in the three-hour-long wide-ranging address
.Opposition leaders and rights activists say embezzlement and misuse of government funds are widespread in Uganda. They have long accused Museveni of failing to prosecute corrupt senior officials who are politically loyal or related to him.