Good morning. Here is a shorter thread on the press conference I attended with @HEBobiwine about the conditions of his detention and his plans, hampered as they are by his confinement. This is a portion when his wife Barbie spoke about how they were coping. 
"We have many men in soldiers in various uniforms. Some are in green uniform, some in blue uniforms and some in brown. They seem to be taking turns. There are different faces" Barbie said. She added" There are some standing peeping into the compound. Others are already in."
"A group of men manhandled me ( she was trying to get food from their garden") until I asked for help from the women ( officers). Why am I being handled by men? I did not get any answers apart from being pushed back into the house" Barbie told.
She said they could hear helicopters flying overhead. " There was also a drone that we saw" she added. "Our TV was interrupted. Our electricity has run out but we could not buy tokens. We are surviving on solar ( power") she said.
" We have barely slept because we can't imagine what will happen in the middle of the night. We don't speak to each other. One of us is in one corner and the other one in another" she said of their interaction with each other in the tense atmosphere.
" It is traumatizing being in the dark knowing they can do anything and get away scot free" she added and decried that their legal team has attempted to get to them but has been denied access.
The impression I got from Barbie Kyagulanyi was that both she and @HEBobiwine were putting up a really brave face. They obviously rely on each other. Bobi Wine says at some point that he was grateful for her sacrifice.
Their children left the country but one can imagine the nightmare it would have been if the children were in the household. For now they are essentially hostages in the strict sense of the word. There is an element of psychological torture too.
The security forces have them confined. They see people, drones and know they are being watched closely with barely any real privacy. However no one is speaking to them. They can't sleep and are on constant tension.
This conduct is surely excessive and violates their rights not to say many Ugandan laws and standards of decent conduct. His tormentors are taking the candidate Robert Kyagulanyi from the ballot box to the height of national/international hero and cult figure.
More so, even if many Ugandans will resign themselves to the political reality of a win by @KagutaMuseveni , the taking of one's opponent hostage, and his slow torture is not the badge of honor for a win ( by the ballot box) his supporters will try to sell.
Over all it aids an atmosphere of insecurity and fear, a very Machiavellian edge to politics and an early investment in disorder in this new political term.
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