Armored Car belonging to bobi Wine, confiscated by URA

URA Confiscates Bobi Wine’s Armored Car, Orders Him To Pay Heavy Fine To Regain It

Posted by: Andre Reagan in Uganda news April 23, 2021

A few months back, NUP principal Bobi Wine came out on his social media pages to break news to his fans of how he had added an armored car to his fleet.

This was no ordinary car as it made headlines in the country and all over social media. Everybody talked and it seemed the new Boda Boda anthem around the streets of Kampala. Most people joked about the type of car he had landed in the country.

The outgoing Kyadondo East legislator said that after several attempts on his life in the just concluded presidential elections, he and his supporters were sure that the government was after any chance to kill him.

In his own words, Kyagulanyi said that the government through the army and police had fired live bullets at his convoy. This was during the campaigns which led to the death of some of his people.

Around February, the singer turned politician paraded a black monstrous SUV locally known as ‘Mpenkoni’. This car left many people’s tongues wagging.

This was a precaution from the young politician’s supporters both in Uganda and abroad. A gesture to safeguard his life in order to advance the ‘struggle to remove a dictator’. The Kyarenga singer paraded the vehicle as a sign of accountability and transparency. It is also said to have cost the supporters a whooping 500-600million shillings.

This armoured vehicle however attracted the attention of URA which is responsible for all items coming into the country.

URA ordered Bobi wine to deliver the car to their offices for an inspection since the body did not know how the car got into the country. Bobi Wine secured a court injunction that prevented URA from accessing his car.

The tax collectors however did not back down and also ran to court which cancelled out the Fire base crew CEO’s earlier order. The car was taken to URA last week by Kyagulanyi’s legal team since he wasn’t in the country.

Now in a letter addressed to the legislator, URA has ordered him to pay a whopping 166, 700 USD dollars. This is an equivalent of 337,698,776.25 Uganda shillings in order to regain the car.

URA gave the reason for this huge sum as having cleared it earlier as a normal vehicle. But after re-examination found an armored car instead.

Bobi wine who was seething with anger in his Twitter posts lamented how police has failed to return his two they took in Arua.

We shall keep you posted on any news concerning this story.

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