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Bobi Wine: State is financially strangling me

Robert Kyagulanyi (Photo, Courtesy)

Uganda’s government is hitting back at a pop star and opponent of President Yoweri Museveni by blocking his concerts and intimidating his business partners, the challenger said on Thursday.

The singer-cum-lawmaker whose birth name is Robert Kyagulanyi but is universally known by his music moniker Bobi Wine, has rattled Museveni’s government with his growing support base since he joined politics two years ago.

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