You can keep me in prison if you want, I have a lot of work to do here- Bobi Wine

Singer cum legislator Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine prior to his release on bail told court that he would not mind spending any more time in jail if at all it was punishment for fighting for what is right.

Bobi who was in court via video conferencing when Buganda road grade magistrate Esther Nahirya called out for his opinion, asked the magistrate to make her choices according to where her conscious lies.

"Your honour, I thank you for the opportunity to speak under these abnormal circumstances. I want to emphasise that it is not me on trial. It is the court itself on trial. Whatever you decide in that court, your honour, that is not my business,” he said

“My business is standing for the truth. My business is standing for what is morally right. My business is standing for what morally beneficial to you, to me, to those people who are persecuting me under the guise of prosecuting me, and all the people of Uganda. Your honour, if standing for what is right will earn me my freedom, I will thank God for it. But your honour, if standing for what is right is going to keep me in this prison, then I will thank God even louder. After all, I have a lot of work to do, even here in prison,” he added.

The magistrate asked Bobi Wine to pay a one million shillings bail in cash and each of the three sureties asked to pay shs10 million non cash.

You are not allowed to engage in any unlawful demonstrations and if you breach this condition, the bail will be cancelled,”the magistrate said.

She adjourned the case to May 23, 2019.