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Babu Owino threatens to storm Kampala and demand for Bobi Wine’s immediate release


Embakasi East Member of Parliament, Babu Owino has vowed to lead Kenyan lawmakers in a demonstration in Kampala within the next week if detained Ugandan MP Robert Kyagulanyi is not released from custody immediately.

Kyagulanyi, who is popularly known his stage name Bobi Wine, has been in detention at several military camps in Uganda for the past week.

He is expected to appear before the military court in the capital Kampala on Thursday to face charges of being in possession of firearms without a license.

The charges relate to the chaos that marred the Arua Municipality by-elections last week with President Yoweri Museveni later claiming that his vehicle had been stoned at by Bobi Wine, who also is a famous musician.

“We have been arrested before and do not fear Museveni. We will be taking a revolutionary demonstration to Uganda because it is high time things chance in our neighboring country. We cannot sit and watch injustices being committed in the continent,” Babu Owino declared during a press briefing at Parliament buildings on Wednesday.

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He was accompanied by Nominated MP Gideon Keter and Nyando MP Jared Okello.

Owino also said President Museveni, 73, who has been in power since 1986, is unfit to lead the country.

“We cannot allow Museveni to kill the future of our youth. He has proved time and again that he is unsuitable to be in office,” he said.

Owino spoke as the management of the Hotel Pacific in Arua dismissed allegations by the police and other security forces that guns were found at the hotel in which Bobi Wine was arrested.

“These people (security men) did not get any gun here. They should be ashamed to tell lies to the public that they got guns. If they got guns from somewhere they should tell the public instead of blaming our hotel. They are just implicating these people for their own selfish political interests,” said Luiji Candia, the Hotel Manager, told Daily Monitor.

At the same time, journalists who have been covering the tribulations of Bobi Wine and fellow MP Francis Zaake have said they have been threatened and ordered to stop writing stories by unknown people or else they get ready to face the consequences.