Musician Bobi Wine visited Dr. Kizza Besigye in Upper Prison Luzira on Monday where they had a discussion about the current situation in the country.
The Aidah singer went ahead and shared some of the information he talked about with Besigye on social media. He posted:
“Yesterday I visited Dr. Kizza Besigye at Luzira Upper prison. He was very happy to receive me and my team. HE IS HEALTHY AND STRONG and above all,very hopeful. We talked extensively about the state of affairs in our country.
He said ‘once you decide to stand up and oppose an oppressive regime,you will always have two homes,your real home and prison, but that should never break your spirit and quest for freedom and justice.’
He said that at this particular time in our history, it’s not a matter of what political party or affiliation you belong to. We all have a collective responsibility to liberate our motherland. Parties can only exist in a free and fair atmosphere where everybody is equal under the law.
To the youth, the leader had this to say ‘I was a young medical doctor in my twenties when I decided join the struggle to liberate Uganda in 1982.(Interestingly I was was born in 1982) So it’s upon you the young people of this generation to get up and offer leadership.This is not a one man struggle that should start on the top downwards, but rather from the grassroots upwards. The people themselves should know that it’s within their power to change things, THEY SHOULD NEVER GIVE UP; WE SHALL OVERCOME’. He wished all the the Muslim brothers and sisters a happy Iddi.”
It should be noted that Bobi is one of the Ugandan musicians that has dined and supported opposition party leaders on several occasions and this is not the first time he is visiting Besigye since he had earlier visited him at his home in Kasangati when he was under house arrest after February elections.