Police has been deployed heavily in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, to restore calm following a protest by a group of angry youth over the re-arrest of Kyadondo East Member of Parliament and musician Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine.

Bobi Wine was on Thursday evening as blocked from boarding a flight at Entebbe Airport before he was arrested and whisked to Kiruddu Hospital located along Salaama Road in Makindye Division

According to relatives, he was headed to the United States for treatment following injuries he sustained when he was brutally arrested and allegedly tortured in Arua two weeks ago.

The youth in Kamwokya burnt tires and blocked roads before Police swang into action to disperse them.

It will be remembered that Bobi Wine grew up in Kamwokya and has a number of buildings, a music studio and

NBS Television journalist Joshua Mujunga, was also allegedly beaten by security operatives while covering the protest on Friday morning.

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