Uganda: After the 'Besigye Hammer' and 'Bobi Wine Whackdown', It Is Chameleone's Turn

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It was more than a little amusing to read that three days after musician Joseph Mayanja, aka Jose Chameleone, announced that he had joined the Opposition Democratic Party, police cancelled three of his scheduled concerts in Masaka Sub-region.

It is not clear whether the police will go as far as to give Chameleone the "Bobi Wine Whackdown" or the "Kizza Besigye Hammer". Essentially, the two are the same, the difference in name being down to the periods when they emerged, with the "Kizza Besigye Hammer" involving at one point an actual hammer, as we saw in 2011 when security operatives hammered the windows of his car, and sent him to a Nairobi Hospital to mend broken limbs and bruised body.

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