ANTI-GAYS LAW: Bobi’s Vague Position Turns Into Bobi’s Massive Nightmare
Bobi Wine’s vague position in regards to the live-wire Uganda’s Anti-gays law, has turned into one of the politician’s huge nightmares as well as embarrassment for the National Unity Platform’s Principal.
Following the Uganda National Assembly’s enactment of the said law and President Yoweri Museveni’s assent to it, Bobi Wine followed suit, saying things that looked like he was in support of the contentious law, attracting travel sanctions from the UK government. Uganda’s leader, GenYoweri Museveni, his party officials as well and supporters had before Bobi spoke out in support of the controversial Anti-gays Bill, used the same to decampaign his strongest rival opposition presidential candidate, labeling him a backer of gays, prompting Bobi to step forward and back it, fearing reprisals from the Ugandan majority voters.
But on a recent return to the UK according to the country’s lifting of the biting travel sanctions, the Pop Singer turned around during a radio show hosted by BBC, blaming his NUP party MPs for backing the Uganda government’s ‘harsh’ pieces of legislation, alluding to the one to do with gays. Aware of the negativity and contempt with which the majority of Ugandans treat the said law, Bobi Wine quickly turned himself into the biggest potential victim of the law, asserting how the country’s leader, Gen Yoweri sponsored it, looking to catch him for his assumed support for support for the gays.
The new change of heart on the part of Bobi during the BBC radio show evidently intended to appease and win back his powerful and wealthy backers in the UK, was quickly answered back to with curses from back home in Uganda raised by Bobi’s own NUP lawmakers, their ruling NRM counterparts, the other opposition groups, and the Uganda’s largely Anti-gays population. Hajj Asuman Basalirwa, one of Bobi’s dependable political friends who even left his JEEMA party, standing on the ticket of NUP, winning a parliamentary seat, heavily criticized the Pop star-turned-opposition leader for condemning the Anti-gays law he [Basalirwa] personally helped to draft, tabling it before the country’s parliament, enacting it into law.
Bobi’s own NUP party lawmakers are also up in arms, calling out their leader for resorting to politics, seeking to appease the Europeans, painting them in bad colors, and alienating them from the West.
As things stand, Bobi Wine surely looks like a man caught between a rock and a deep blue sea, rendering him unable to decide whether to support the Anti-gays law, losing his support back home in Uganda, or oppose the piece of legislation, losing the support of his powerful and wealthy backers in Europe, attracting fresh travel sanctions from countries across Europe.
In a nutshell, the issue of Anti-gays law is proving to be one of the nightmares of General Museveni’s hottest rival, Bobi Wine real name Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.
