On Bobi Wine’s missive, William Pike and MP Muwanga Kivumbi

Bobi Wine’s missive was widely read given the comments on social media. This may be attributed to the fact that it was a response to Mr Museveni’s earlier missive. But we must accept that the missive was well put-together and a worthy read.
I challenged my Musevenista friends to tear this ‘unwashed’ man from Kamwokya in a knockout response, but none picked the challenge.

One of them responded thus: ekintu kya Bobi kiri solid nnyo. Oba omuntu aba anakitandikira wa? (Bobi’s missive is solid. Where would one start taking it on?). And because the missive was solid, the only way ‘we’ Musevenistas could ‘reach’ Bobi was to claim that he (Bobi) was not its author.
The missive was signed by Bobi as the author; and with no copyright claim challenges, what matters now is the signature of authorship. And I request that we start from the point that the said missive was authored by Bobi Wine.
After sorting the issue of authorship, our primary concern should then be shifted to the content and delivery of the missive.

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The biggest controversy in authorship identity in English Literature is that of what we all know as Shakespeare’s works. There are claims that William Shakespeare, that venerable potentate of English Literature, is not the one who authored the works we all know as Shakespeare. Mbu the real author was someone called Edward de Verre, a nobleman with Franco-Norman heritage (please refer to the Norman conquest of the isles).
The proponents of Edward de Verre identity as the author of the Shakespeare works are so convincing that I have always inclined myself to believe them.
But that has not taken me away from the awesomeness of what we all know as the Shakespeare Works. My best Shakespeare work is The Merchant of Venice. This play is said to be based on an old work titled The Jew of Malta by a different author. I have read both The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta. Should Edward de Verre’s identity as author of the Shakespeare works destruct from the noble literary delivery of the Shakespeare works? Me says no.

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A billion years ago, I used to work at The New Vision. The biggest story of the time was the removal of two-term limits for the president. There was, like it is today, young activists who fought against the removal of term limits from the Constitution.
One of the leaders of the group was a one Muwanga Kivumbi.
I was assigned to interview the said Muwanga Kivumbi. And after a week or therelike, I met him at the DP offices at City House. I had a voice recorder. When Editor-in-Chief William Pike read the draft of my interview, he seemed to doubt that Muwanga Kivumbi could have made the statements in the interview. I must confess, I too, didn’t expect him to deliver as he did.
I told Pike: As a university graduate, Muwanga Kivumbi, was capable of expressing himself well. He was still doubtful. He asked for my notebook.

Unfortunately, I am not a good notes taker. But I had a recording. The interview was run shortly after. Muwanga Kivumbi is now an MP and one of those young politicians on whom I have I have kept a keen eye.
In 1980, no one gave Mr Museveni a chance. Six years later, he was President of Uganda. In 2001, some people even said that Dr Kizza Besigye was a false flag playing dummy for his wife Winnie Byanyima. Besigye is now the most dominant Opposition political leader expected to be a key player in the post-Museveni era.
Mr Bisiika is the executive
editor of East African Flagpost.