Kyadondo East Legislator Honourable Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has applauded the international community and foreign media for a job well done in covering political events that are currently unfolding in Uganda.
This was the legislator’s first official media engagement since his return to the country from the US last Thursday.
The legislator has in the recent past featured in all major media houses in the world as he was receiving specialised medical treatment in the U.S having been allegedly tortured by security services in Arua.
The MP, sitting at his Magerere residence in Kyadondo constituency on Monday addressed the media on numerous political issues including what his next plan as far unseating President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni from power.
Bobi Wine told journalists that he was totally disappointed with President Museveni’s recent media engagements in which he ruled out possibilities of torture subjected to MPs by the military in the Arua fracas.
“You say you are our grandfather. But really, how do you feel when you go ahead to torture your own grand kids. Shouldnt a Jaja (grandfather) show parental love to their muzukulu (grandchild)? Wondered Bobi Wine
Bobi Wine alleges that while in army detention, he was clobbered with iron bars, kicked and his private parts squeezed by soldiers.
However, Museveni in his addresses maintains that the soldiers only arrested Bobi Wine and his ilk as preventive measure following violence that marred the Arua by-election.
The mayhem left one person dead- a driver of Bobi Wine,the President’s car pelted with stones, scores injured and tens arrested including opposition legislators.
But Bobi Wine attributes the violence to the security agencies which made unwarranted arrests of opposition supporters.
At his Magere residence on Monday, the self professed ghetto president issued a special call to international community and the media to keep any eye on Uganda and expose the sordid secrets of NRM government.
“This government’s atrocities need to be exposed. I call on the international community to keep making open the dangerous deeds committed by this government on those that speak out about their acts, like myself”
Uganda has lately been a subject of debate in various foreign assemblies, with donors expressing displeasure on Museveni’s 30 year rule.
Museveni responded saying he will not be intimidated by imperialists and wondered why any Ugandan would be influenced by these foreigners to paint a bad image about the country that has made so much progress over the last 3 decades.
Bobi Wine returned to the country last Thursday after three weeks in the US where he sought further medical treatment after being released on bail and charged with treason over the Arua by-election skirmishes.
