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Tommy interviews #Uganda politician, former presidential candidate, & musician @HEBobiwine about his brave fight against a military dictator; & how US assistance can prop up anti-democratic leaders.
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Tommy:
“This week you announced that you’re withdrawing your court case to challenge the Presidential election results, because the courts just aren’t independent. These are judges who work for Museveni. Given all the ways that he has rigged the system to stay in power,...

....what’s the path forward for the opposition in Uganda?”

Bobi Wine:
“......we are withdrawing from the Supreme Court of Uganda, because it is clearly biased.......the Chief Justice of Uganda is Museveni’s previous lawyer. He was Museveni’s lawyer in the previous...

...Presidential election petition; and he was defending Museveni. Now he is the head of the Supreme Court. He is the Chief Justice. And, not only that, but just days after we handed-in our petition in the Supreme Court of Uganda, the Chief Justice invited General Museveni to a...

...function; and he in his own words, asserted that General Museveni would still be President next year.

Which we believe was a sign of double standards. And since then, the Chief Justice and many other justices from the Supreme Court, have met Museveni. Three times publicly; and numerous times secretly. And indeed on one of the meetings, General Museveni promised that he would...

...meet the Justices of the Supreme Court privately. We don’t know what transpired in their secret meeting; but we know that in one of the public meetings, the Chief Justice presented a budget of some of the things that he wanted done by General Museveni.

Now while all this is going, there is a petition against General Museveni’s purported winning of the Presidency, on the table of the Chief Justice. But right after those meetings, the Chief Justice blocked an amendment to our electoral petition, even when he was aware that I...

...was kept under house arrest for 11 days; and yet the law gives me 15 days to file a petition. In the previous election petitions, an amendment was accepted. But in my case, the Supreme Court rejected an amendment. In the previous Presidential election petitions, evidence...

...was accepted all through the hearing.

But we have not even started the hearing, but my evidence was rejected by the Supreme Court........the Chief Justice said my team can only submit our case for 30 minutes. So all these are signs of bias. That’s why we opted to ask the...

...Chief Justice to recuse himself because he had clear conflict of interest. Unfortunately, he refused. And we had no option but to opt out of their court because they were clearly not independent. We decided to take this case back to the court of public opinion.

To the court of the people of Uganda. And I must say, that now - like we’ve been saying in the past - the people of Uganda are going to have the last word in the destiny of their country. We are going to call upon the people; and the people of Uganda are going to have to take...

...it upon themselves. Of course, I have been categorical in calling upon the people of Uganda to be law-abiding, and to be non-violent. We don’t believe in violence whatsoever. I’ve reminded the people of Uganda; that in 1980, when the Supreme Court was behaving in a similar...

...way like the court is behaving - when the former President, Apollo Milton Obote, rigged the election - General Museveni went to the courts, but he abandoned the case and went and wedged a war that consumed over half a million people.

We don’t believe in violence. And we are not going to use violence. We are not going to go to war. We are going to call upon the people of Uganda; and it is within our law for the people to protest for a right. So we are going to call upon the people of Uganda, because we...

..believe that the people of Uganda will raise their voices non-violently. We really hope that the world will stand with us. Because General Museveni is the kind of person that believes so strongly in violence; and we know that he has always responded to everything with violence.

Even if we are to protest from our bedrooms, General Museveni is expected to mount tanks and a little force against the people of Uganda. So we hope the world will not close its eyes on the people of Uganda, because we are on a road to achieving our democracy non-violently;...

...and we look forward to see the world standing with us.”

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