The President of the National Unity Platform, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, alias Bobi Wine, today, Friday 2nd May, 2025, tweeted on X that ‘SFC soldiers have just raided and cordoned off our headquarters’ and called on ‘Ugandans at home and abroad’ to ‘rise up and protest against Museveni and his brutal son.”
The National Unity Platform had today scheduled a solidarity gathering protesting the continued detention of Eddie Mutwe, the personal bodyguard of Bobi Wine, who was on 27 April 2025, abducted by government security forces from Kiwango village in Mukono district. NUP rallied its supporters to be at the gathering at 2pm, saying, ‘Eddie Mutwe is all of us. His pain is our pain!’
Yesterday, 1st May 2025, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) of UPDF, and President Yoweri Museveni’s son posted on his official X account a picture of a clean-shaven Eddie Mutwe with the caption ‘learning Runyankore’.
The CDF, in a series of posts on X, said that if Bobi Wine abused any member of his family, he would be imperilling Eddie Mutwe, who he was using as a punching bag for his practice ahead of a boxing match between himself and Bobi Wine.
Friday morning, the CDF posted: “I will only release Eddie to Mzee, when he gives me the order. He would have learnt the history of NRA/UPDF by then. And will understand that NRM is a party that represents the whole country. It can never be defeated.”
Quoting an X post from Bobi Wine announcing the solidarity gathering, the CDF said: “You are next Kabobi! Remember Arua? How you were crying for Barbie to save you? This time I will have your balls…”
Later, he posted: I have only ONE warning to NUP’s so called ‘Foot Soldiers’. If I can arrest your so called ‘Commander’ like an Nsenene, imagine what I will do to you. You either disband or you will face lethal consequencies.
