The vocal Ugandan MP, Robert Kyagulanyi also known as Bobi Wine is flying back home from the United States.
Bobi Wine traveled to the U.S this month to seek medical treatment after he was brutalized while in custody.
He traveled to the U.S after securing a clearance from the Ugandan authorities who had earlier prevented him from traveling abroad.
The pop star turned MP was taken ill after his arrest and detention last month. He was arrested and detained for allegedly playing a role in an attack on the country’s President, Yoweri Museveni.
Museveni’s convoy was reportedly attacked while returning from a campaign rally last month. After spending days in detention, Bobi Wine’s lawyers said he was tortured rendering him seriously sick.
He wrote on his twitter account on Wednesday that he was “headed home”, while standing at the airport.
Headed home. ✈??✊ pic.twitter.com/M3VNleP6uM
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) September 19, 2018
What happened while in custody
Bobi Wine gave a chilling account of how Ugandan soldiers brutalized him after traveling to the U.S.
He wrote on Facebook that “They beat me, punched me, and kicked me with their boots. No part of my body was spared. They hit my eyes, mouth and nose. They hit my elbows and my knees. Those guys are heartless!”
Bobi Wine says soldiers beat up several others but he was helpless in helping them, something he says “haunts” him.
“As they dragged me out of the room, they continued to hit me from all sides. After some time, I could almost no longer feel the pain. I could only hear what they were doing from a far. My cries and pleas went unheeded.
The Ugandan MP said the soldiers “pulled my manhood and squeezed my testicles while punching me with objects I didn’t see.”
The Musician MP
Robert Kyagulanyi is a Ugandan celebrated Afrobeats star. He began his music career in the early 2000s and has been singing projecting various issues of national concern.
He has produced songs on issues such as freedom of speech and personal hygiene.
Bobi Wine was elected to parliament as an independent in a by-election in 2017 in Kyadondo East, central Uganda.
He calls himself the “ghetto president” since he stands up for the rights of the underprivileged.
Source: Africafeeds.com
