Uganda police said on Thursday they have detained a legislator and senior official of the countrys biggest opposition party for his alleged role in election-related violence in which at least seven people have been killed.
The lawmaker, Muwanga Kivumbi, is vice-president of the opposition National Unity Platform NUP party headed by pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine, who has been in hiding since last week.
Wine, whose legal name is Robert Kyagulanyi, said he fled a military raid on his house hours before President Yoweri Museveni was declared the landslide winner of the January 15 presidential election.
