Bobi wine in parliament
Bobi wine in parliament
Ugandan artiste-cum-MP Bobi Wine has slammed his fellow artiste Bebe Cool for saying injuries he reportedly sustained while in police custody were faked.

Wine, who visited the Kenyan Parliament last week, is facing treason charges in Uganda in relation to the stoning of President Yoweri Museveni's convoy, and was allegedly tortured in detention upon arrest.

Bebe Cool told Ugandan NTV the media did not analyse Bobi Wine well, and that they reported lies.

“I disagree with violence, I do not agree with torture. The media, NTV, you have cameras. Watching this young man (Bobi Wine) getting onto the car after court, he held the car with one arm and raised the other arm with the crutches. What was down here? Was he in the air or standing on his feet?” he said.

Adding: "Media, you look at a man wearing the heaviest shoe in life, one that even people who are not sick cannot move freely with. It's because it is too heavy and media still don’t analyse that.”

Responding in an interview, Bobi said: "Bebe cool is Ugandan like me, a father to his kids like me. He is still in the country that we are trying to fix. It is the taxpayer's money that is being ditched in huge sums. I get disappointed because the people who made him are the same [people] he is fighting. I only hope that one day, he will realise and learn to use his voice well. I pray that he realises he can use it better."

Bobi Wine was away from his family since his arrest, and that affected his family, especially his children.

"My children were so happy to see me but at the same time my daughters cried so much when they saw me, but I told them to be strong, there will be happier days in future," Wine said.

"We always thought that by this age we will be happy. We worked so hard in our youth so that later on we get a good life, because we never enjoyed our youth. We achieved but when we got here, we looked outside and realised there is a huge responsibility that we could not run away from.

"My wife is not very okay but she is very supportive. She has never told me to quit because she understands it is not about me. She is alive for the fact that it is for the people who got us where we are today."