You're next for sanctions, Bobi tells human rights boss

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You're next for sanctions, Bobi tells human rights boss
UHRC chairperson, Mariam Wangadya.

Opposition leader Robert Kyagulani, aka Bobi Wine, has warned Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) boss Mariam Wangadya to watch out for she could be next to be sanctioned internationally.

Mr Kyagalanyi on Monday clashed with Ms Wangadya during UHRC's tribunal hearing of his case. He withdrew the case in Wangadya's face, leaving the UHRC chairperson fuming.

Addressing himself on the barbs traded at the NUP party headquarters in Kampala on Thursday, Mr Kyagulanyi warned Ms Wangadya could be dragged before international human rights organisations for her "role in human rights violations".

"You, too ,will be sanctioned like your bosses," he warned.

Kyagulanyi accuses Wangandya of trying to muffle his pleas for a fair hearing which prompted him to withdraw a case.

"Before I could say five words, she shut me down," he said.

Mr Kyagulanyi had been allowed to speak despite attending the tribunal with his lawyer George Musisi, who had beseeched the Commission to allow the NUP principal speak.

But once obliged, he railed about how the case had not been attended to for five years and accused the commission of delaying justice to deny justice.

Ms Wangadya had warned him to abide by the rules of the tribunal or be thrown out and when he persisted, was asked to leave.

He responded by declaring the case withdrawn.

Meanwhile, the threat to lobby for sanctions against Ms Wangadya comes a few weeks after the UK government sanctioned the Speaker of Parliament and former Karamoja Affairs ministers, sanctions NUP claimed they had lobbied for.

Mr Kyagulanyi appealed to UHRC after his music concerts were banned during the People Power Movement that he led ahead of the 2021 general elections.

He has overtime accused the UHRC of being partisan, accusations the commission denies.

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