The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
YEAR IN REVIEW: June 2017
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | June 29: Popular singer Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine romps to victory in a by-election for the Kyadondo East seat. Running as an independent, Kyagulayi trounced NRM and FDC candidates.
His victory caused excitement as it opened up possibilities for wild-card candidates. Ssentamu joined a frayed opposition to battle President Yoweri Museveni’s NRM.
His first call to duty was when the opposition attempted to filibuster the tabling of the so-called Age-limit Bill seeking to remove the 75-year age bar on the presidency; so that Museveni can run in 2021. He will be 77 years old.
Kyagulanyi’s win embodied the struggles, frustrations and hopes of the young, poor and marginalised in a youthful nation whose often elderly rulers seem not to care of their plight.
Political analysts believe that his anti-government stance, peppered in his lyrics, combined with an electric connection with the youth, could be a serious threat to Museveni’s grip on power.
“We want to cause political change,” Ssentamu told Reuters in one of the interviews. “It’s long overdue.”
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