UPDF Check Points Are not Targeting Bobi wine – UPDF

Kampala– Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has dismissed allegations that Road Blocks which were mounted on Kampala- Gayaza Road are not aiming at looking for National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobiwine but are aimed at ensuring sanity on the road as well as ensuring full compliance with traffic regulations by all motorists.

According to Colonel Chris Magezi, the Acting Director Defence Public Information in UPDF, the operation is focused on impounding unregistered or numberless vehicles, and curb the illegal use of sirens, among other measures.

“The operation was launched effective Monday, 9 March 2026 and will proceed in force for as long as necessary. This is therefore to dismiss the insinuations from some quarters that the snap checkpoints mounted by the Military and Uganda Police traffic corps is an effort to apprehend NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine).”

He also emphasized that no one is looking for or interested in the NUP leader as the aim of the police forces is to restore discipline, total observance of traffic regulations, and curtail criminal activities by some motorists on the roads.

“Besides, the enforcement measures are not new, and have been employed in the past to achieve similar objectives.”

Therefore motorists, including motorcyclists have been urged to cooperate and comply with the Military Police and Uganda Traffic Police directives for the common good.