President Museveni’s former Press Secretary Joseph Tamale Mirundi has warned Kyadondo East legislator Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu alias Bobi Wine to be careful while dealing with people like events organisers Abtex and Bajjo claiming they are conmen.

While speaking to Sanyuka TV’s Uncut, Mirundi cautioned Bobi Wine to be careful because the two events managers especially Abtex will fail him. He added that the two are claiming that they are putting up Bobi concerts yet in actual sense they are trying to lure him into a trap by getting money from Museveni.

In his words, Tamale Mirundi said, “the one who stopped Bobi Wine from singing is the one who will allow him sing again so, now they have not allowed him to sing. Secondly, Bobi said he wants to be president, he is not a candidate now. The law allows a candidate to stage rallies but that will be in 2021 when the year is ending, they will give them three months. He is not a presidential candidate now. He is the Kyadondo east Member of Parliament meaning he is not allowed to stage rallies,” the presidential adviser on Media warned.

He continued, “thirdly, the government said Bobi Wine turns his concerts into political rallies, this man who puts on a hat (Abtex) has over failed Bobi Wine, I wish some people attack him because they are playing Bobi. If those men just come up and say that they are going to share the money they get from Museveni with Bobi wine, he will have fallen because he will have deceived his fans, people will think he is a thief.”

ABTEX FIRES BACK

When the Grapevine contacted Abtex, he told us that people like Mirundi have been paid by the state to be stupid.

“People saying such things have been paid to be stupid. Right now, Bobi Wine has put a lot of pressure on Museveni, He never expected a young man like Bobi to put him under a lot of pressure, he was used to the Maos and Besigyes. I cannot at the moment present myself as the person trying to fight Bobi Wine. When Bobi entered politics, he wanted to leave stage performances, I personally convinced him to keep performing on stage. Tony Sempijja, who is an NRM mole took some events organisers to President Museveni who gave them over 1.8 billion, now, me and Bajjo never went there. I personally fought enemy forces to make sure that Bobi performs at the Kabaka’s enkuuka fete. How can a man who did all that fight his own creation. Right now, they have hired bloggers and people like Mirundi to spoil our names. We were arrested and caged with Bobi Wine because we were fighting hard to make sure that his Busabala concert stands, how them can one say that we want his downfall?

We don’t want any compensation from president Museveni, we just want him to allow Bobi to sing and hold his concerts,” Abtex said.

He added that they have hired the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago to handle their court case in which they have taken government to court for stopping Bobi’s shows.

Bajo told us to give him 10 minutes

By Doreen Menezer

Musician cum politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine is crying foul again after being stopped by police from holding Easter concerts.

Through his Facebook page, Bobi posted a letter signed by the police operations commander, Asuman Mugyenyi, stopping events organizer Abtex, who is in charge of Bobi’s Show from holding Easter concerts at his Busabala beach.

“This serves to inform you that despite the elaborate and clear guidelines well stipulated in our correspondences and the previous meetings we have had regarding the preparations for, the manner, the conduct, the characteristics and security demands from your side, the previous concerns have fallen short of the agreed upon positions in line with lawfulness safety and security….

For example, the disregard for the set and agreed upon guideline has quite often resulted in acts related to public nuisance, violation of traffic rules and regulations and other misconducts which are not only a breach of the law but endanger lives of Ugandans some of whom are not part of the revelers.

On that background therefore Uganda police will not be able to secure your planned concerts and will not risk them to be carried out in any unsecure environment. You will therefore have to suspend or stop such concerts until such a time that robust public security mechanisms are put in place to secure the revelers, other Ugandans who may be affected by such concerts and keep law, order and public safety generally,” the police letter dated 19th April reads in part.

In response to the letter, Bobi wrote, “We have just received this letter from the Uganda Police Force stopping all our scheduled music shows – including the one scheduled for tomorrow at One Love Beach, Busabala. They have been playing ping-pong games for over a month since we wrote to them. Three days ago, they wrote back to us giving us a litany of requirements. We invested huge sums of money to meet their demands, some of which were unreasonable. This was in addition to what we have invested in advertising and preparing the show. I think they thought we would fail to meet them. When we did and submitted them, the responsible officers started hiding themselves from us! Last night, they intercepted the trucks which were carrying the machines for the show. Today, this is the letter they gave to us- no show. Please remember, all other artistes are not required to fulfill any of these requirements and their shows have not been stopped. This brings the total number of our blocked concerts across the country to 124 since October, 2017.

We shall not sit and watch as our rights continue to be violated.”

Self-claimed media consultant Joseph Tamale Mirundi has seriously warned NBS TV comedian cum ssenga, Justine Nantume alias ‘Nanyinizo’ on her secretes plans to snatch him from his three women.

The former press secretary to president Museveni said that knows that as human beings, it is natural to admire others but it’s advisable to admire a person you can handle.

He said that there is nothing that can stop him from falling in love with Nantume because every man admires her but his problem is he has has three wives.

Mirundi revealed that he has struggled with his wives and they have come from far and he is very sure that his wives will not allow Nantume to snatch him.

“My wives are like me, Nantume must prepare to face witchcraft because my wives are going to use it in this battle,” Mirundi said. 

Last week, Nantume revealed that she wants to have a piece of Mirundi before God calls her. She warned that she is ready to snatch him from his other wives. 

By Jamil Lutakome