The 36-year-old has taken to Twitter to explain how he was arrested at Entebbe Airport and escorted to his home in Magere, Wakiso District.

Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, says he was arrested upon his arrival by "people in police uniform and others in civilian attire".

"They grabbed me from the tarmac, took away my walking stick and grabbed my red beret off my head," Wine says.

Earlier this week, police issued guidelines to follow when welcoming the popular politician who has been described as the new face of opposition. One the guidelines included escorting him from the airport straight to his home.

The musician-turned-legislator states that he was forcefully escorted into a police waiting for a vehicle with complete strangers.

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"I was forced into a waiting police vehicle. I insisted that I did not want to get into an unknown car with complete strangers and that I had my own car waiting for me at the arrivals but my plea fell on deaf ears...

"Even when I suggested that they let me get into that strange vehicle with Hon. Winnie Kiiza with whom I had travelled from Kenya, they could hear none of that. I was searched and my passport was taken from me. I still don't know where it is!

"I got sandwiched between two counter-terrorism policemen in a vehicle that had other police officers waiting. I was then driven off towards the UN airbase with a string of police patrol cars & military trucks. They drove at breakneck speed & after a long ride, we got to Kiira then headed to Gayaza road until I was eventually dropped at my home in Magere," Bobi Wine narrates.

Rights violations

Kyagulanyi states that his rights were "grossly violated" since authorities didn't allow his close family members to access him while at the airport.

He claims that many of his colleagues were arrested and released in the evening after settling at his home in Magere.

"Once again my rights were grossly violated, but most importantly the rights of my friends, family and lawyers who endured gross harassment throughout the day. Many of them were arrested and only released later in the evening without any case against them

"Many of my fellow leaders were put under house arrest for no offence whatsoever. Simply because the state suspected that they would want to go and receive me at the airport. This is a gross abuse of authority."