According to the Ugandan media the journalists were in a meeting chaired by Chief Political Commissar Brig. Police were later deployed at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala where the journalists went after storming out of the meeting. “UPDF spokesperson Brig. UPDATE: UPDF spokesperson Brig. Flavia Byekwaso has explained the heavy deployment around the Media Centre saying that they got information that journalists wanted to beat them and so they had to get 'backup' for protection.

Source: Daily Nation December 29, 2020 11:00 UTC