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23 May 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 06:49 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ugandan police have warned people planning to hoot car horns in protest at the rising cost of living they will face arrest for noise pollution.<\/p>\n

The opposition call to honk horns or whistle five times at 1700 local time (1400 GMT) is to complement the “walk-to-work” protest begun in April.<\/p>\n

Rights groups have criticised the police crackdown on the protests in which nine people have died.<\/p>\n

This month Yoweri Museveni was sworn in for a fourth term as president.<\/p>\n

He says he wants a new law to deny bail for six months to those arrested for rioting or causing economic sabotage.<\/p>\n

Uganda’s main opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been arrested four times and placed under preventative arrest once since the protests against the rising cost of food and fuel began.<\/p>\n

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It demeans him and his government to use excessive force and these tactics against the opposition\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The government accuses him of using trying to organise an Egypt-style uprising after losing the election.<\/p>\n

Henry Bellingham, the UK’s minister for Africa, called on Mr Museveni to rise above “petty party politics”.<\/p>\n

He said the “very tough tactics” used against Dr Besigye were a concern for the UK government, one of Uganda’s largest aid donors.<\/p>\n

“President Museveni won with a big majority, he should now be magnanimous, he should be statesman-like, he should rise above trying to make any moves against the opposition,” Mr Bellingham told the BBC’s Network Africa programme.<\/p>\n

“[He should] carry on the excellent work which he’s doing in many ways in terms of the prosperity agenda in Uganda [and] counter-terrorism.<\/p>\n

“On all these fronts Museveni has been doing a good job, but I think it demeans him and his government to use excessive force and these tactics against the opposition.”<\/p>\n

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Whoever cannot hoot should simply bang a table, a calabash, a saucepan or any tool or instrument that can produce a sound or noise for five minutes\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

End Quote<\/span> Mathias Mpuuga<\/span> Opposition Democratic Party<\/span><\/div>\n

Police spokesperson Ibin Ssenkumbi said the force’s stance on the horn protest would the be same as the “walk-to-work” campaign.<\/p>\n

“[The] Car hooting act is illegal\u2026 what I can say is that any protester will be subject to arrest,” he is quoted by Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper as saying.<\/p>\n

Another police spokesman, Vincent Ssekate, cited a law against noise pollution and told the BBC anyone hooting near a hospital or school would definitely be picked up.<\/p>\n

The opposition MP behind the Activists for Change campaign urged those without a car to join in.<\/p>\n

“Whoever cannot hoot should simply bang a table, a calabash, a saucepan or any tool or instrument that can produce a sound or noise for five minutes,” Mathias Mpuuga said, the Daily Monitor reports.<\/p>\n

Mr Mpuuga questioned whether anything was now legal in Uganda – after recent walk-to-work protests were broken up by the police.<\/p>\n

He said the police force was over-enthusiastic and partisan, adding it was like a robot being controlled from State House.<\/p>\n

BBC East Africa correspondent Will Ross says the government sees sinister motives in the opposition’s protests and accuses it of encouraging violence and chaos.<\/p>\n

Dr Besigye says he was cheated in February’s election, although he mustered only half as many votes as Mr Museveni.<\/p>\n

Last month, riots broke out in Kampala in protest at the rough treatment meted out to Dr Besigye by the security services during his arrest on 29 April.<\/p>\n

Plain-clothed policemen were filmed beating up his supporters, smashing the window of his car and dousing the inside with pepper spray and tear gas before manhandling him into a vehicle and driving off.<\/p>\n

The authorities say Dr Besigye provoked them – and he was charged with inciting violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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