JOINING BOBI WINE
In 2017 when the Kyagulanyi political wave first washed over the country –triggering a violent backlash from government – Lule was one of the first youths who picked keen interest.
Even when he flew to Chad in 2018 at the invitation of the US Embassy to work with a team constructing a base for the visiting former US President Jimmy Carter (head of the Jimmy Carter Foundation), he actively kept tabs on Uganda’s politics. He claims nobody invited him and his fellow Kawempe youths to join the struggle.
He laughs at suggestions that the youth are paid by foreigners to support Kyagulanyi. If anything, he says most of the youths are volunteers driven to the movement by their grievances against the ruling establishment. He says he was driven to the opposition by the injustice he suffered in court for two years when he got conned out of $22,000 (about Shs 79 million) he sent home to purchase land in Maganjo. He says the judge and state prosecutor appeared to be on the side of his tormentor.