“When you hear people talking of demonstrations, when you do it in a place like Kampala where people are selling on the roadside, are you going to step in their products? You are playing. Don’t have such ideas in your head.”
The president advised the organisers of the planned demo to make use of Kololo independence grounds and hold their protests from there and on a day like Sunday which is not busy.
Earlier Saturday, Ugandan police had informed organisers it would not permit the planned protest in the capital Kampala as authorities had intelligence that “some elements were trying to take advantage of the demonstration to cause chaos in the country”.
AFP quoted Ugandan police operations director, Frank Mwesigwa as saying: “Demonstrations can only be allowed under our mandate as long as they are not causing public disorder and disrupting lives of lawful citizens
