Bobi Wine vows to defy as his show is cancelled again

Musician

turned Politician, Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine's scheduled

Boxing day show is now hanging in balance as the army allegedly cordoned off

the venue, arresting several and ordering many to vacate.

If the

Kyadondo East Legislator's social media platforms are anything to go by, the

army was, a few minutes past midnight dropped in droves aboard military trucks

in Busabala before going ahead to surround his One Love Beach, where

preparations for the Boxing day fete were in high gear.

Bobi

Wine revealed in a statement on his social media platforms that the soldiers

would then order the organisers to bring down the stage and pull down all

materials for the show, arrested his employees and sent away his guests who

were lodging at the Beach.

He said;

" The beach is completely cordoned off as if it's crime scene!! I've not

stopped receiving calls from my staff and neighbours who are in too much fear,

as these actions are being carried out in the deep of the night."

According

to one of the organisers, a one Mbabazi; “It was coming to midnight

when we saw a group of policemen and soldiers around this place, they ordered

me and my staff members to leave the beach.”

“Within a blink of an eye, the whole beach was

surrounded by policemen and soldiers, all the beach gates were surrounded. They

asked me to get the security guard and they ordered the sound ram to put the

stage and abandon their work.”

Mbabazi claims that the soldiers kept on

getting calls from different people with different instructions.

“I want to assure Bobi supporters that the show

will take place because everything is in place,” Mbabazi claims.

However, Police Spokesperson Emilian Kayima

insists Bobi Wine did not undertake the required measures for his show to

stand.

“ I’m not sure about the One Love beach

Busabala concert being among those that are cleared to be given security. As

far as I’m aware, I don’t think the concert will happen unless it was cleared

this morning,” Kayima told Nile Post

“We shall be at Busabala beach to disperse

revellers because we shall be protecting them. As far as I’m concerned, this

concert wasn’t cleared because the first things weren’t done,” he added.

Kayima maintained that Bobi Wine’s shows have

an extra clearance since he is a politician as well, and he has failed to

understand that fact. He however, said he is unware of any arrests made by the

army or police, not even the cordoning.

“If Bobi Wine hasn’t written to Police about his concert, that’s not my issue because if he writes,

we shall police his concert. I however don’t know if anyone was arrested or the

place being cordoned off,” Kayima said.

“The only problem in this country is that some

people fly with the wind. Those who pay for the One Love beach Busabala concert

will know who to hold liable when it doesn’t happen,” he added.

According

to Bobi Wine, the show will happen.

“Although we were disturbed last night, we are

here still going on because we are citizens and we are entitled to be serviced

by police. The force they used last night would have been used secure this

concert,” he said.

“It’s shameful if the police spokesperson

doesn’t know that more than 40 policemen and soldiers were deployed here last

night to stop the concert, this shows the state of our police,” he added.

Bobi maintains that the show has been in

existence for the past ten years and if not cleared, it is the police’s fault.

“Yesterday, I had two shows which were also

cancelled. The Boxing Day concert being cleared is the duty of Police, we’ve

been having it for the past 10 years, it’s police that haven’t played their

part.”

This

means that Bobi Wine's woes are from over despite the speaker of Parliament,

Rebecca Kadaga resolving last week that blocking the legislator's shows is

unconstitutional with no basis in the law with Police coming out to deny that

they were targeting him, saying that he (Bobi Wine) was showing up to perform

on shows where he was not invited.

Meanwhile

Bobi Wine’s nemesis, Bebe Cool will be having his annual tondeka ekiwatule show

after police deployed in numbers to provide security.