The leader of the Opposition in Parliament Mathias Mpuuga has said that he doesn’t know what his party boss Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, meant when he said legislators that passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 are working for Museveni.
Mpuuga said at a press briefing that the National Unity Platform (NUP) President will come out and explain what he exactly meant, emphasizing that he knew nothing about what he meant in his comment on the legislation of the Anti-Gay Bill 2023.
“Please wait for the President to have a press conference and ask him to explain what he meant, probably. It would be a good opportunity for you and the nation to know what he exactly meant, I don’t know what he meant,” he said.
LOP said that he doesn’t interrogate his party boss over what he says and told the press to wait for Bobi Wine to explain by himself what he exactly meant. Mpuuga said he is sure his boss will get an opportunity to address the nation about his remarks.
Bobi Wine recently made a controversial comment about the Anti-Homosexuality-Law that was passed by the Parliament earlier this year. Bobi said his MPs that passed the law are working for President Museveni, a thing that raised a storm in parliament.
When asked about his homophobic song, that was sanctioned by the UK in 2014 untillast month when the sanction was revoked, Bobi said that ‘we grow and we transform’. NUP president said he also has an agenda for homosexuals in his ideal Uganda.
Legislators castigated Bobi Wine over his comment and told him to stop playing cheap politics and tainting the image of Uganda in exchange for ‘brown envelopes’.
Asuman Basalirwa, the mover of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023, said there is no one that coerced him into tabling the bill before parliament, refuting claims by Bobi Wine that those in favour of the bill were working for Museveni.
Bobi Wine has not yet had an opportunity to defend himself publicly. However, the politician, in collaboration with music partner Nubian, has released a song dubbed Man and Woman, in which he speaks of the importance of heterosexual marriages.
