The Lies That Bind the People Power Narrative
The unfortunate death of a former Bobi Wine associate, a one Micheal Kalinda in a motorcycle accident last week has quickly turned the focus to the strategy the People Power organization and how it intends to use the media as we head towards the 2021 general elections.
Bobi Wine only recently declared his intentions to run for the top office amidst much fanfare on international Television just two years since he won a parliamentary seat and joined active politics. The...
Ziggy Wine, At The Time Of Demise Had Fallen Out With Bobi Wine
Reports coming from Fire Base Studio in Kamwokya indicate that Ziggy Wine aka Michael Alinda had fallen out with Bobi Wine (Hon Kyagulanyi Ssentamu), although the latter continues to claim that the deceased was his close pal. There is only a single picture of Ziggy Wine and Bobi Wine, taken at a time when the latter hadn’t joined politics and hadn’t cut off his dreadlocks then. Challenged to avail any current photo of the two, Firebase Crew Manager, John...
Ziggy Wine and The “People Power” Game Plan Of Murders And Kidnaps
A persistent pattern has emerged around the illegal People Power political outfit revealing a badly executed plan to capitalise on false allegations of kidnap and murder against its supporters as a tool to win compassion and benefaction from donors and foreign groups.
This week, what began as an obscure but straightforward and unfortunate case of an unfamiliar young man, Ziggy Wine (Michael Kalinda), getting involved in a road accident was quickly woven into a web of lies to benefit “people...
Ziggy Wine Death: Bobi Wine Trades Lies To Score Cheap Political Points
By Don Wanyama
Lovers of published African literature, especially the short story sub-genre, must have come across a piece titled “A Mercedes Funeral” by celebrated Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiongo. The summary of that short story is that Wahinya, a bar watchman in the town of Illmorog, dies of alcoholic poisoning at a time when there is an election frenzy for the Member of Parliament seat.
The little-known Wahinya becomes the centre of the campaign as four of the candidates try...
Ziggy Wine’s Exact Cause of Death Comes To Light
The controversies that surround the death of Micheal Kalinda alias Ziggy Wine have come to an end with new facts revealing the actual lead to his death.
Ziggy Wine, met his death through an accident and not torture as social media propaganda earlier circulated .
The Police spokes person Fred Enanga has issued a statement in a press conference today which explains the circumstance in which Kalinda passed on. “ On the 21st July 2019, a speeding motorcycle Honda heading in...
“Ziggy Wine” and the Politics of Opportunism in the Opposition
Now that the Kyagulanyi group deployed (Kasiano) Wadri as their anchor in West Nile, they are both a consequence and secondary beneficiaries of the violence on the late (Ibrahim) Abiriga.