BOBI WINE

@HEBobiwine Verified Record

We have refused to compromise our principles even when that has come at great personal cost. We have pursued and secured sanctions against those who steal from, and oppress our people. We have kept the struggle alive and we are only growing stronger. To the international community: Uganda’s freedom is not only for Ugandans. If Ugandans are not safe, neither are our neighbors nor the western countries that receive us as asylum seekers. A free Uganda is a stable East Africa and a prosperous Africa. A free Uganda is an asset to the international community but Uganda under dictatorship is a liability to all nations. So, please, stand with us as we stand for democracy and human rights. To our senior comrade Dr. Kizza Besigye; To comrades Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro, Bobi Young, Eddie Mutwe, Achileo, Machete, Gadafi, and all political prisoners; WE HONOR YOU. To your families, and every other Ugandan affected by this struggle: please do not lose hope. Your suffering will never be in vain. And, finally to the comrades I will be moving with during our campaigns; the foot soldiers and the ordinary citizens who have nothing else to offer to their country but themselves: First of all, I want to thank you. From day one, we have stood together. Through tear gas, through bullets, through beatings, through abductions, through courts, through prisons walls, And through funerals. You have been my shield, my eyes, my ears, my courage, my strength. You have been my friends, my real friends! Today, as we go into what is likely to be an even more violent campaign, I will rely on you more than ever. We are embarking on a long walk to freedom. Whatever lies ahead of us, is going to test everything we are and everything we stand for. But freedom has never comes easily. Our grandparents shed blood for independence 62 years ago. Our parents shed blood for what they thought was a liberation 40years ago. Our comrades, in this generation, are in prison for this very struggle; they have shed blood for this struggle. Many of them are missing and they don’t even have graves, for this struggle. Let us carry on their mission. The same courage and discipline that have kept us going since 2017 until today, should carry us through this campaign. Your duty in this campaign will not be to protect me. It will be to protect yourselves. To protect each other. To protect the people who will come for our rallies. You must be vigilant in every village we shall enter and at every rally we shall hold. Be very solid and be very sober. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Be careful but never show fear. Fear is the weapon the dictator wants to use against us. And, please, understand what we are fighting for: We are fighting for a better country. We are fighting for the farmers, for the boda boda riders, for the young graduates without jobs, for the ghetto youth whose future is being taken away in exchange for a few shillings, for the children growing up to an empty future. We are fighting for that police officer who is ordered to brutalise you because you’re fighting for their children’s future and afterwards they have to return to their uniport without any health insurance for their family. Please don’t see them as enemies, they’re victims too and deep inside, they also wish that things can change some day. If we succeed, this country will finally be free and things will never be the same again. Unfortunately, if we don’t succeed, not one will believe that we did our very best, which means we will be condemning our children to more slavery. Therefore, comrade brothers and sisters, failure is not an option. We must get our freedom or die trying to get our freedom. I don’t know how much danger is awaiting us on the campaign trail, but I know that we shall have to keep moving forward with hope and faith. We’re carrying the hope of our entire generation and this is a historical responsibility. 3/4

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May 11, 2025

Dear Maama, Everything I am, I owe it to you! Thank you for not giving up on me and I hope I make you proud. I miss you. Happy Mother’s Day. https://t.co/XgKKbdpSl0

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Aug 17, 2025

It is with deep sorrow and heavy hearts that we announce the untimely passing of our dear comrade and friend, Marinos Alexandros. Marinos was abducted on 30th March 2022 in Mbuya, subjected to incredible torture and raped by regime thugs at CMI, Mbuya. Her crime? Playing Bobi Wine's music on loud speakers! When she came out and exposed the thugs, she started receiving calls threatening to kill her. Her house was raided in the night by rogues, but she was not there that night, having slept at a friend's home. This prompted her to seek refuge in Nairobi - Kenya. Even in Kenya, regime thugs attempted to abduct her, forcing her to leave Nairobi and go to the UNHCR camp where she could have some security. Out of the abduction and torture ordeal, Marinos contracted several diseases, including HIV/AIDS. Last year, she became very sick and started getting treatment while we supported her. Because of the loneliness and other conditions in the refuge camp, she returned to Uganda a few weeks back in order to get better treatment in the presence of her family. It is most unfortunate that we have lost her this morning at 1:30am. Marinos joins hundreds of other victims of the Museveni regime of blood and terror. Fight on, comrade! The struggle for freedom and democracy in Uganda is poorer without you, but the evil regime will never have the last laugh.

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Jan 12, 2025

They wondered how a young party like ours would place Ssegirinya above known politicians. But I stood my ground and told them I would never overturn the voice of the people, which was very clear. As we stand here today, I am very proud that we have been vindicated. In fact, we were vindicated in the first few months of Ssegirinya in Parliament. He immediately embarked on serving the people of Kawempe North with dedication. He invested in healthcare, in economic empowerment, in community service- responsibilities that should ordinarily fall on the shoulders of a functional government. But as we all know, we have an absent government, so leaders have to step in. He visited the sick, the poor and the hungry. Ssegirinya was a true representation of what we stand for as People Power- being the voice for the common person. He spoke for the boda-bodas, the market people, the downtrodden. It is this attitude that earned him so many friends, and enemies alike. Before long, the regime conspired with some politicians whom he repeatedly told us about. They arrested him, tortured him, and eventually sent him to his early grave. Like I said at our headquarters the other day, Ssegirinya did not enjoy even one day of his tenure as an MP. He has spent all his time as an MP either in prison or in hospital, until he gave up the fight. I hope Gen. Museveni feels proud of what he did to Ssegirinya! For the two years he was in jail, we asked the regime to prosecute them. To produce any evidence that they participated in the killings in Masaka. But the regime did not produce that evidence because it was not there! As you all recall, some of the young men, who the regime paraded as witnesses against them, boldly told court that they were paraded by the regime and told to lie that it was Ssegirinya and Ssewanyana who sent them to kill people in Masaka. At a subsequent hearing, they attempted to speak but were silenced. The judge who allowed them speak the first time was transferred and another brought. They were repeatedly denied bail, even when Ssegirinya presented all evidence that his life was going away. Gen. Museveni came out on TV condemning the grant of bail, thereby intimidating the judges. But as they say, they can only walk on your back when you bend it. Even those judges who repeatedly denied them bail are as oppressive as Museveni who detained them. If you're a judge worth your salt, Museveni would rather deny you a promotion, than you send Ssegirinya to an early grave. You would rather flee to exile like Justice Esther Kisakye, than be used as a tool of oppression. That is why we celebrate Chief Justice Ben Kiwanuka who was killed for staying true to his judicial oath. What happened to Uganda? Where are those judges who can still stand to defend the Constitution? Therefore, Ssegirinya joins the long list of prominent and ordinary Ugandans murdered by the Museveni regime. Some are murdered openly, others secretly. Some are murdered very quickly, others face slow painful deaths. Some are murdered with bullets, others with poison. Maama Ssegirinya joins the many parents who are grieving- their children murdered by the Museveni regime! You all saw her video leading a lone protest at Parliament, not once or twice. She came weeping, saying that her son's life was going away. But the regime did not care! Ssegirinya's children join the very long list of children orphaned by Museveni’s regime of blood. The prayers these little children will make every day before they sleep, will never let him have peace. The other day, while Museveni’s son was tweeting very shameful things on Twitter, a priest called me and asked me, "With all the atrocities he has committed, why are you surprised that God has chosen to punish him that way?" He told me that the tears, pain, and prayers of the orphaned children and the widowed mothers will always haunt Museveni and his family until they repent. 2/3

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