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Gen Muntu’s ANT: Bobi Wine peaceful protests may end in bloodshed, deaths

Mugisha Muntu and Bobi Wine. Courtesy Photos

Maj Gen (Rtd) Gregg Mugisha Muntu’s Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) has warned peaceful demonstrations declared by Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine may end in bloodshed.

On Tuesday, Bobi Wine, the National Unity Platform (NUP) leader, who lost to incumbent President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni in the January 14 election, declared countrywide peaceful protests.

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But acting national coordinator of ANT, Alice Alaso, has warned that although NUP has a right to make decisions as an institution, Bobi Wine’s plan could end in tears and blood.

Alice Alaso

Alaso explained that she would not trust the Museveni government to do the right thing in the face of protests.

“NUP is entitled to its approach because even constitutionally, people have a right to a peaceful demonstration but we can hope and only hope that Government will take in the divergent views with calm,” Alaso told a local television station on March 10.

“We are caught up in a democracy which is a dictatorship because you don’t know how much democracy you can exercise here as a citizen without it ending in bloodshed and death. Ugandans know what they want but for some reason, they fear to go for it. I don’t know what they are scared of.”

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Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, translator, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. His other journalistic work was published by The Observer. When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block. His new children's book 'Friends of Plastics' has been published by Room to Read and Reading Association of Uganda and can be read here: https://literacycloud.org/stories/7887-friends-of-plastic/