Despite the beatings and subsequent incarceration, Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has said he is not scared and will continue opposing the lifting of the age limit cap from the constitutional 75 years.
Sharing his ordeal of what happened Wednesday when opposition MPs were forcefully evicted from Parliament by Special Forces after a stand-off, the singer-turned-musician said he was still in pain.
“My muscles ache, my joints feel dislocated, the pain in my neck from the strangling is unbearable, my head hurts so bad, my whole body is in terrible pain but my heart is as SOLID AS A ROCK,” reads part of his statement that he shared Friday on social media.
“Yesterday, I watched TV in amusement. In our absence from Parliament, a few ministers and MPs were trying to lecture us about parliamentary decorum, civility, good manners, and about morality. They wanted us to be look on and cheer them as they raped the Constitution! They wanted us to be gentle while some soldiers dragged elected representatives of the people out of the parliamentary chamber like grasshoppers! They wanted us to sing melodies for Kibuule and thank him for defiling the sanctity of parliament when he entered with a gun! Let me ask those people a few questions. What is civil about raping the Constitution? What is moral about selling your conscience? What decorum is there in betraying the people who stood in the sun the whole day trying to elect you to represent them?
“Well, my message to them is this; we shall not be spectators while our country is being killed, plundered and destroyed. We owe it to the present people of Uganda and the generations to come. I shall never fail ‘to do all in my power’, to defend and protect the Constitution because that is what Article 3(4) of the Constitution demands of me. I also want to remind those people that many years ago, President Museveni did not just use punches and kicks to fight what he thought was oppression. He used guns and led a war in which more than 800,000 Ugandans died.”
Kyagulanyi is among the 25 MPs that were suspended from Parliament for three sittings. Their suspension ends on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, even the other opposition MPs who were not suspended have since refused to return to Parliament in solidarity with their colleagues, some of whom are still in hospital following the brutality meted out on them by the Special Forces.
