Bobi Wine challenges Museveni to take tough action against Rukutana for shooting Kabasharira agents

Presidential hopeful Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has condemned minister Mwesigwa Rukutana for shooting at supporters of Naomi Kabasharira in Rushenyi.

The junior labour minister was trailing behind Naomi Kabasharira in the race for National Resistance Movement (NRM) flag bearer in Ntungamo’s Rushenyi county.

Rukutana later grabbed a gun from his body guard and sprayed a car belonging to Dan Rweiburingi, an ally of Kabasharira.

Chaos as Minister Rukutana shoots at opponent Kabasharira’s agents in Rushenyi

Reacting on the shooting, Bobi Wine, the Kyadondo East MP, now wants Museveni to take stern action.

Bobi Wine said “the people’s struggle is about taming the gun” and “a minister should not shoot and intimidate his opponents.”

“Mr Rukutana should be arrested and forced to resign from office. Ugandans have a lot of work to restore sanity in our country,” wrote Bobi Wine.

Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, translator, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. His other journalistic work was published by The Observer. When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block. His new children's book 'Friends of Plastics' has been published by Room to Read and Reading Association of Uganda and can be read here: https://literacycloud.org/stories/7887-friends-of-plastic/

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