Ugandas President Museveni warns citizens they are playing with fire over planned&nbspprotests

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni

Uganda’s hardline President Yoweri Museveni has warned citizens planning anti-corruption protests Tuesday that they are “playing with fire.”

The upcoming protests come after a wave ofthat rattled neighboring country Kenya wherein clashes with security forces, according to figures released by the National Commission on Human Rights.

Museveni, 79, who has ruled the East African nation with an iron fist for nearly four decades, said in aon Saturday that the anti-corruption march will not be allowed.

“What right… do you have to seek to generate chaotic behavior? … We are busy producing … cheap food, other people in other parts

...is designated due to involvement in significant corruption tied to her leadership of Uganda’s Parliament,” according to the US State Department.Among has pushed back against the sanctions, calling them “politically motivated” and claiming they were triggered by Uganda’s defiance of international pressure after passing a strict anti-LGBTQ law last year.