BOBI WINE

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Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also popularly known by his stage name Bobi Wine, is a Ugandan freedom fighter, ghetto youth, activist, politician, singer, lawyer and actor. He is a former Member of Parliament for Kyadondo County East constituency in Wakiso District, in Uganda's Central Region. He also leads the National Unity Platform political party. In June 2019, he announced his candidacy for the 2021 Ugandan presidential election. He participated in the 2021 election, in which, according to official results, he lost to incumbent Yoweri Museveni, although he claims this result was fraudulent. On 14 December 2021, he was placed under house arrest by the Government of Uganda, he then continued to protest his arrest. He later went abroad where he publicized through a documentary "the corruption involved in the 2021 election." Upon his return to Uganda on 5 October 2023, he was arrested. Read more

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