KAMPALA - Two Ugandan MPs have been arrested after leading a demonstration calling for the closure of the border with South Sudan in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Daily Monitor newspaper reports.
Gilbert Olanya and Samuel Odonga Otto want the Elegu border post, in the northern province of Gulu, to be closed because of the increasing cases of lorry drivers arriving with coronavirus.
The two lawmakers are being held at Gulu central police station, the paper says.
Police spokesman Patrick Jimmy Okema is quoted as saying that the MPs were arrested for not seeking permission for their demonstration.
For more than a month, lorry drivers delivering cargo across East Africa have been tested for coronavirus at border posts.(FA)
Ugandan MPs 'arrested'
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