In the aftermath of the violence, several people were hurt, businesses were destroyed, Crowds looting and setting alight shopping centers, were captured on videos and panic gripped the entire citizen population due to the uncertainty
“I was in my shop when a group of ten young men came in and looted all my goods and the money in the safe,” Faridah Nakazi, a shopkeeper in Kampala, says. “They beat me before fleeing”. Taxi driver Silvester Owor laments how “thugs placed objects in the road forcing passengers to get out of the taxi. They beat them before taking everything they had”.
Source: https://www.lifegate.com/uganda-riots-bobi-wine
Soldiers working with the police managed to catch a few rioters; in total almost 45 were arrested, but law enforcement remained heavily outnumbered. Following the arrests made the opposition has gone ahead to provoke, attack, humiliate and create false propaganda in order to plant hate for the government to the public, they have gone ahead to mobilize the violent youth in order to tarnish the Ugandan security and destroy, vandalize the great achievements of the government of Uganda.
However, after conducting thorough investigations, the police and other agencies were led to believe that most of the protestors were hired and recruited by prominent opposition leaders trying to discredit the current government,
as a free will minded Ugandan, I appeal to the EU to join the fight against domestic terrorism being promoted by opposition leaders such that peace and stability can prevail and allow businesses to once again prevail.
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