Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has alerted his supporters that he will return home on Thursday to continue the struggle.
The pop-star who has gained traction as Uganda’s leading opposition figure since August 13 in Arua has been away in the U.S receiving specialized treatment having been allegedly tortured by the army at a time of his arrest last month.
While in the U.S, Bobi Wine with the help of a renowned American lawyer Robert Amsterdam addressed a syndicated press conference in the presence of major media houses in the world.
Since then, he has separately appeared on various media channels explaining his ordeal while in detention and also elucidating his call for removal of his home government.
Bobi Wine a music star won a by-election in Kyadondo East last year in July.
His popularity as opposition legislator has been surging with majority of young people supporting his cause.
He accuses the regime of failing to create jobs for the youth who constitute majority of the population and also fights to end injustice.
He has since led a movement dubbed People Power whose supporters wear Red T-shirts and caps.
In a video he released last night, Bobi Wine makes veiled statements alerting his radical supporters to prepare for his grand return on Thursday.
He begins by expressing sympathy to the families of those who have lost their beloved ones in the recent violence that spread across the country.
The Ghetto Gladiator as he popularly refers to himself announced that immediately he comes back, his next plans are to explain further the ideals and values of People Power movement.
“The question of what is people power, what does it stand for and struggle for. The question needs longer explanation and when I come back home this Thursday I will endeavour to explain further,” he said.
He added that, “but importantly people power isn’t Bobi Wine or anyone else but is about those struggling to have a better country.”
He dispelled earlier remarks made by the President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and several of his juniors in government that Bobi Wine and his crew are radicals whose mission is to cause violence in the country.
“We are not violent group of people, we despise violence whatsoever.
I have told you from the beginning that we should be peaceful but assertive. Museveni and his lieutenants have tried to project us as a violent group so as to respond to us with violence,” he said.
Bobi Wine however, reiterated that whereas the State is planning to use criminals to infiltrate people power establishment, cause havoc and later accuse him of the atrocities committed, he warned, “I know how to deal with these criminals. I am aware of this plan. I will deal with them.”
