A petition by Lawyers of Kyadondo East MP, Hon. Bobi Wine to the White House has outlined gross rights abuses and lack of rule of law. The petition comes after the US embassy in Kampala voiced similar concerns in a statement to government. Bobi’s lawyer Robert Amsterdam in a six-page petition dated April 25, 2019 […]
A petition by Lawyers of Kyadondo East MP, Hon. Bobi Wine to the White House has outlined gross rights abuses and lack of rule of law.
The petition comes after the US embassy in Kampala voiced similar concerns in a statement to government.
Bobi’s lawyer Robert Amsterdam in a six-page petition dated April 25, 2019 asked the attention of President Donald Trump to brief him on the current political situation in Uganda.
The government blocked Bobi Wine shows and put him under house arrest. The MP is now wanted at CID to answer to unspecified charges. Bobi who declared presidential ambitions is now free after police officers withdrew from his Ghetto state house in Magere.
State minister for international cooperation, Okello Oryem said: “He [Bobi Wine] is sadly naive and still in a dream if he thinks the White House will leave everything it’s doing- campaigning and promoting “America First” to waste time attending to some small time amateurish African politician”.
“My brother should by now realise that we have seen and been in a more less identical situation before, it was effectively handled by [this elected] government and all that time the same White House was there at the time,” Mr Oryem said on Saturday.
The deputy director of the Uganda Media Centre Col. Shaban Bantariza also commented on Bobi Wine petition to the White House and called it “senseless and unhelpful” rant.
“Bobi has the stage, let him tell the world how he will do things differently. He needs to be advised that quislings has failed in the past. His predecessors tried them and they failed,” Mr Bantariza said.
“The only constituency for Bobi to get power is through Ugandans and not Washington DC.
Let Bobi Wine know that a call to freeze aid to Uganda would not only affect government, if it occurred anyway, but Bobi Wine as well.”
He added: “Our development partners give us loans which we repay. It is not free money. If Amsterdam is through with America, let him rally Japan, China, Britain all to freeze our loans.”
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