“There is also a brother of mine, who many fear to talk about….Jamil Alibakyi Kyagulanyi. Many know him as Mukulu. He is also a political prisoner….” says NUP president Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi in a video that his circulating widely on internet.
It emerged Kyagulanyi made the revelation last weekend in Kalungu district while attended Duwa prayers for Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago’s father.
Kyagulanyi’s remarks have since drawn ire among members of the public especially those who suffered the wrath of the rebel outfit Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) which was founded by the suspected war criminal Jamil Mukulu.
The movement which had its base in Western Uganda and DRC killed noncombatants including children as young as 3 years, captured and forcefully recruited them.
In 1998, Mukulu’s rebel group raided Kichwamba Technical Institute and torched down a dormitory which housed over 100 students. All the occupants perished.
But to Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, Mukulu is a political prisoner languishing in Luzira prison because of his fight for justice.
Mukulu was however, captured in 2015 in Tanzania, repatriated to his home country Uganda where he is being tried in Courts of Law.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) which many times Bobi Wine has praised issued an arrest warrant against Mukulu to answer charges over his involvement in crimes against humanity.
But Bobi Wine says unlike NUP, Mukulu fought for justice using military means.
“What distinguishes us from him is that we are using nonviolent methods. For us we fight with words and actions that don’t require bloodshed,” said Bobi Wine.
“But for him (Mukulu), he said no, your words can’t work in such an environment,” he added.
