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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Opposition National Unity Platform leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has claimed that he was detained at Dubai Airport Detention Centre for more than 12 hours as he was quizzed by authorities.<\/p>\n

In an interview on Saturday, Bobi Wine claimed that the Ugandan government had instructed the airport officials to block him from holding a charity concert in the country.<\/p>\n

However, Mr Okello Oryem, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, yesterday described claims that Kampala was involved in Bobi Wine\u2019s detention as \u201chogwash and rubbish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bobi Wine had gone to Dubai to hold what he called a charity concert seeking to raise funds to bring back hundreds of Ugandans who are stranded in different Middle East countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I arrived at the airport at about 8pm, I noticed that there was an unusual deployment, so I was taken into a room and they started to interrogate me,\u201d he said in a WhatsApp call.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThey asked me political related questions whether I was going to hold a rally or a music concert.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer-turned politician said after hours of interrogation, he was put in a detention facility at the airport in Dubai where he met many people from different African countries on various charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were many people and during the time I was with them, they cried about how they are struggling for freedom and many of them knew me and they were calling me by name. These people are held on different cases but I had all the documents needed,\u201d Bobi Wine said.<\/p>\n

Concert blocked<\/p>\n

He said he was later set free and allowed into the country but his concert was blocked. We could not speak to United Arab Emirates to respond to the claims.<\/p>\n

Minister Oryem yesterday said the government of Uganda has more serious issues to deal with than Bobi Wine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government has more serious things to do than follow Bobi Wine. He has tried to say things to the whites but they can\u2019t listen to him because they are very bright. I suspect that Bobi Wine had a wrong visa and that is why he was arrested. He should not put it on us,\u201d her said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBobi Wine has been to Ukraine and shot a movie and told Europeans bad things about the Ugandan government but they have not listened to him. He is now out of content and he doesn\u2019t have anything to say so he is forwarding his problems to the NRM government,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Bobi Wine tweeted that he had been held at the airport. Asked how he was tweeting yet he was already under detention, he said: \u201cI used a public phone to call the administrator of my social media accounts who put the information up. I always have ways of accessing social media.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bobi Wine last held a music show in 2017 before the government blocked all the events that he had organised at that time.<\/p>\n

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