
Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is now detained at Nalufenya Police Station in Jinja district. After being arrested earlier in Luuka district on the road with his Presidential Campaign and with his convoy. However, he was brutally stopped there, arrested and taken away to Nalufenya. Later charged with Penal Code article 171, which is spreading disease and in this regard COVID-19.
However, all along this was to be expected at one point or another. That Bobi Wine would be arrested. This was something the National Unity Platform and the People Power Movement could anticipate. Because, at some stage the state and the authorities would find a reason or excuse to arrest him. That is what they do to their arch-enemies.
Bobi Wine is the symbol and the one carrying the mantle, which implies he is taking a cause of a peaceful transfer, even speaking of a revolution to topple the dictatorship and President Museveni. In such a regard and with a huge popularity. That Bobi Wine has strike a nerve, which is hard for the authorities to contain.
Bobi Wine have with his message, manifesto and his ideals brought the youth and disenfranchised a party and an ideology. Where they believe they can together bring change and also ensure the end of the reign of Museveni.
That is a hard bargain. Near impossible, as Museveni has installed himself and his allies in every part of the government. There isn’t anywhere where the President cannot order or direct. The President has his touch on all things and can get his memo to every corner of the Republic. That sort of control is what keeps him in power.
However, that isn’t without its costs. As the President have kept the public poor, haven’t ensured the benefits for the average citizens and they have not earned on his Presidency. No, they are living in the same peasantry they did before the took power. Yes, they can afford soap and some goods, but there are plenty who struggles to get enough to have one-meal-a-day. Nevertheless, the President and his team isn’t stressed by that fact.
Bobi Wine is there to make a difference, change and liberate from this toils, suffering and oppression, which have been inflicted on the Republic for so long. This is why Museveni have gotten a new type of leader against him. Not the run-of-the-mill former cadre from the NRM or any common intellectual. No, he has gotten a man from the ghetto, a musician and a man who has the wisdom to listen to the one around him.
Bobi Wine is the symbol that Museveni didn’t want to create. The People Power Movement and Bobi Wine is the sort of effort Museveni dreamed off before he needed the Bush-War himself. Inside himself, I am sure he feels the pain. That he never got the love to this extent without a civil-war. The President only got the bash of glory after participating in killings thousands upon thousands of civilians to gain power. The man didn’t achieve it through the ballots and through his messaging.
That is Bobi Wine is turning into a true opponent. A sort of opposition and example, which is in stark contrast to himself. Bobi Wine is the new revolutionary. When he is supposed to be the liberator. However, Bobi Wine works to liberate the Republic from him and his reign. That maybe boggles the President. Because, he forgets why he went to Bush. Since, everything he fought against. He has become himself.
That is why Bobi Wine and his candidacy exists. Bobi Wine wouldn’t be the symbol. The man fighting the cause and working for liberation now. If it wasn’t for Museveni keeping the shackles and the bracelets on the general public.
The arrest of Bobi Wine will not be the end. The road to 2021 is still long. It might seem short, but the days ahead will feel long. Museveni might overcome this too. He has survived so many protests and demonstrations. However, Bobi Wine isn’t the sort of player he is used too.
Bobi Wine is the symbol and the man he never wanted to challenge. Because, Bobi Wine is one of them. Bobi Wine can and has the ability to strike a cord with the electorate and also inspire them. In a way that Museveni never will be able to do.
This is why Museveni fears him. That is why Museveni despise him. Also, the reason why Museveni goes after him. The symbol of everything Museveni isn’t and wished he was himself. Though Museveni came with a promise to liberate the public. He squandered that and became the oppressor himself. Peace.









