VIDEO: Bobi Wine, Zaake head to London for treatment
Ailing legislators; Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine (Kyadondo East) and Francis Butebi Zaake (Mityana Municipality) will be flying out to London for further treatment, according to Democratic Party President, Norbert Mao.
Mao made the revelation yesterday outside Gulu High Court in an interview with NBS TV following granting bail to the fist batch of people who were arrested in the Arua by-elections chaos.
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Mao said that they are in touch with Dr Martin Griffin of the London Royal hospital who is supposed to receive Bobi Wine and Zaake once the duo are permitted by health experts in Uganda and government through the medical board.
“They will be received by the Democratic Party chapter of UK, and the person coordinating everything is Godfrey Ssekisonge. A comprehensive report for Hon Zaake has been written by Dr Andrew Ssekitoleko and we are still hoping Hon Kyagulanyi will have a comprehensive examination and a full report made,” Mao said.
“MPs are supposed to be treated at public expense but there is a process, you need authority of the medical board but we have requested to meet the Prime Minister so that he can use his authority to waive the requirement for medical board to sit. We did that for Nambooze the first time she went to India and I hope he will do this for our colleagues,” he added.
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Mao’s communication follows calls from Zaake’s family members and lawyer Asuman Basalirwa, who asked that the ailing legislator be allowed to access better treatment abroad.
According to Zaake’s doctors, the youthful legislator feels excruciating pain along his back bone and could suffer permanent disability.
Unrelatedly, Mao reiterated that the moments in Arua signaled an end to Museveni’s regime.
“Ugandans are not going to wait for 2021, they want transition now. I am not going to miss words, Ugandans have decided not to work on Museveni’s time table anymore but decided to set their own timetable and I think it says; time is now,” he said.
The one-time presidential aspirant called upon a united opposition to offer options for a regime that is its evening.
“The opposition has now got to organize ourselves and provide an answer to a failing state, Ugandans are looking for an option and it is about us to provide it. Ugandans want us to unite and they keep asking where is that glue,” he said
