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Over the weekend, Bobi Wine was in Kayunga for the burial of Ntenjeru MP Patrick Nsanja’s dad Mzee James Sebuliba who died at 81 years of age. Kyagulanyi was the chief mourner because Nsanja is his supporter having quitted NRM.
The burial was in Bukamba village Nazigo sub county Kayunga district where Kyagulanyi, for the first time, came face to face with the area NRM chairman Moses Karangwa Kalisa. The NUP president said he had personally never met nor come face to face with Karangwa who he was able to realize isn’t the bad person he had always taken him to be; as had been portrayed by his detractors.
Kyagulanyi was speaking within spitting distance from where Karangwa was seated and said that from what he had been hearing, he didn’t know that the man even knows how to put on a smile and have a good laugh. “After meeting him today, I have realized he is not the monster or bad person I had imagined him to be,” Kyagulanyi told mourners amidst applause.
Contrary to what some publications had reported, there wasn’t much hostility between the two political leaders because Karangwa, having arrived late, walked over and even greeted Kyagulanyi as the crowd of mourners cheered this gesture of friendship.
The mourners were amused as the two shook hands. Karangwa is a diehard NRM supporter but had to attend because Nsanja is a fellow leader in Kayunga even though they subscribe to different political parties.
Kyagulanyi was accompanied by fellow NUP leaders like Fred Nyanzi and Joel Senyonyi. Reciprocating the Kyagulanyi gesture of saying a few good things about him, Karangwa recalled an incident of 2014 when he hired Bobi Wine, then a singer, to perform and entertain guests at the launching of his Sauti FM radio station in Kayunga. It actually remains the only radio in the district.
Elsewhere in his speech, Kyagulanyi suggested that people shouldn’t become each other’s enemies simply because of political differences. He called on Kayunga residents not to relent in their support for regime change in Uganda. He also decried bad roads, corruption and deprivation of health services among Ugandans.
Adding onto what the day’s preacher, Rev Canon Ignatius Kabuuka had said, Kyagulanyi commended Mzee James Sebuliba for bringing up his children, especially Patrick Nsanja, properly and in the fear of God.
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